[418]. Diog. Laert. viii. 24 sq.; see Zeller l.c. p. 74–78.

[419]. Cic. Tim. I ‘sic judico, post illos nobiles Pythagoreos quorum disciplina extincta est quodammodo, cum aliquot sæcula in Italia Siciliaque viguisset, hunc exstitisse qui illam renovaret.’

[420]. Sen. N.Q. vii. 32 ‘Pythagorica illa invidiosa turbæ schola præceptorem non invenit.’

[421]. N.H. v. 15. The passage is at which Josephus thinks it necessary to insert an account of the Essenes as already flourishing (Ant. xiii. 5. 9), is prior to the revival of the Neopythagorean school. How much earlier the Jewish sect arose, we are without data for determining.

[422]. See p. 83, note [240].

[423]. Diog. Laert. viii. 42.

[424]. Vit. Apoll. i. 15 sq. At the same time Philostratus informs us that the conduct of his hero in this respect had been differently represented by others.

[425]. l.c. p. 288 sq.

[426]. l.c. p. 290 sq.

[427]. See the references in Zeller I. p. 218 sq.; comp. III. 2, p. 67.