Purification: see Kathartic, κάθαρσις; after a funeral, [v, 77]; [after seeing a corpse: Jul., Ep. 77, p. 601, 20 f. H.]; carried out by ἐξηγηταί, [v, 139]; of murderers, [179] f.; [295]; (this not Homeric), [v, 166]; ritual, in daily life, [295]; of the new-born, [ib.]; by blood, [296]; by fire, [21]; by running water, [588] f.; removal of the polluting substance with figs or eggs, [589] f.
Purgation in Plato, [xiii, 36].
Purple (Red) colour proper to the dead, [v, 61].
Pythagoras, [374] f.; [xii, 150]; and Zalmoxis, [viii, 68]; and Abaris, [ix, 108], [122]; his previous births, [598] f.; descent to Hades, [600] f.
Pythagoreans, suicide, [v, 33]; bury the body on leaves, [v, 61]; and Orphics in Herodotos, [336]; [x, 8]; in Athens, [337]; psychology, [xi, 55]; Transmigration-doctrine, [x, 79], [81]; [xi, 42]; [xiii, 40]; ψυχή (Alkmaion), [xi, 28], [35]; and Parmenides, [xi, 30]; Empedokles and P. ἀνάμνησις, [xi, 96]; Υ Pythag., [xii, 62]; and Plato (divisions of the soul), [xiii, 27]; (transmigration of the soul), [xiii, 40]; and the Stoics (souls in the air), [xiv, 53].
Pythia, [viii, 52]–3; [ix, 45]; [289] f.; [596].
Pythian Games, [iv, 22].
Quietism, [380].