Of all the men that tread the Grecian soil;
I shall not speak a falsehood, saying this.
And Ion, the Chian, says of him:—
Adorned with valour while alive, and modesty,
Now that he’s dead he still exists in peace;
For, like the wise Pythagoras, he studied
The manners and the minds of many nations.
And I myself have composed an epigram on him in the Pherecratean metre:—
The story is reported,
That noble Pherecydes