And Mnesimachus says in his Alcmæon:—

As we do sacrifice to the Phœbus whom

Pythagoras worships, never eating aught

Which has the breath of life.

Aristophon says in his Pythagorean:—

A. He said that when he did descend below

Among the shades in Hell, he there beheld

All men who e’er had died; and there he saw,

That the Pythagoreans differ’d much