[In times[3] of prayer]
Ἔν τε λύσει ψυχῆς, Meditation. See Plato in Phaedone.
[and cleansing]
Which extended (saith Hierocles) ἕως σιτίων καὶ ποτῶν καὶ τῆς ὅλης διαίτης τοῦ θνητοῦ ἡμῶν σώματος to meat and drink, &c.
[meats denied]
What they were is expressed by Laertius, Suidas, Hierocles, Agellius, &c. Hierocles affirms that in these words ὧν εἴπομεν, he cites his sacred Apothegms: τὰ δὲ ἐπὶ μέρους ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς ἀποφθέγμασιν, ἐν ἀπορρήτῳ παρεδίδοιτο, Concerning meat is particularly delivered in his holy Apothegms, that which was not lawful to make known to every one. Which is a great testimony that Pythagoras, and not any of his disciples, writ these verses; for if the author had cited him before in the third person (as they argue from παραδόντα τετρακήν[4]), he would have cited him now in the first.
[1] 'These' and 'those' are originally 'crossed over' in text and note.
[2] τετρακήν should, as indeed the context proclaims, be τετρακτύν.
[3] Slight alteration of text in notes again original.
[4] See above. The mistake is an odd one because the original oath is in hexameters and τετρακτύν is absolutely necessary as the last word.