Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources (79 page)

“The soul of man, he says, is divided into three parts: intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals as well, but reason by man alone.” (Hicks,
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
, Vol. 2, p. 347)

p. 361 note 831.
They talk, but cannot speak.

For the Greek text, see Wyttenbach,
PLUTARCHI CHÆRONENSIS MORALIA
, Vol. 4, part 2, p. 668.
means “inarticulate speech” or “chatter.” (Cf. the reading by Vernardakis,
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia
, Vol. 5, p. 364.)

p. 361 note 835. Anonymous,
De Vita Pythagorae
apud Photius, Chap. 10. For
[“Twelve”], perhaps
[“ten”].

The Greek text in the Anonymous
De Vita Pythagorae
preserved by Photius, Chapter 10 reads:

“According to Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, sight is the judge of the twelve colors, white and black being the extremes of those in between: yellow, tawny, pale, red, blue, green, light blue, and gray”.

One would expect a list of twelve colors to follow, however only ten colors are given. Thus Stanley corrects the text from “twelve” (
) to “ten” (
.)

(Kiessling,
Iamblichi Chalcidensis Ex Coele-Suria De Vita Pythagorica
, Vol. 2, pp. 106-108.)

p. 362 note 837. Of which the Ancients made their Mirrors, see Callimachus,
Hymn
5.

The fifth Hymn of Callimachus gives the name given by the Greeks to the material from which mirrors were made: “bring not, ye companions of the Bath, for Pallas perfumes nor alabasters (for Athena loves not mixed unguents), neither bring ye a mirror. Always her face is fair, and, even when the Phrygian judged the strife on Ida, the great goddess looked not into orichak.”

(A.W. Mair,
Callimachus and Lycophron
, p. 113) Orichak (
) “mountain copper” was a mixture of copper and zinc, frequently given as “Aurichalcum,” or Brass.

(Cf. Liddell Scott, A
Greek-English Lexicon
, p. 1247b)

p. 363 note 901. For
, for so Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber V, Chap. 8.

Stanley intended us to read,
, “the Sea, a tear of Saturn,” supplying the wording from Clement of Alexander's
Stromata
, Liber V, Chapter 8:
. “In the same way too, the Pythagoreans figuratively called the planets the “dogs of Persephone,” and to the sea they applied the metaphorical appellation of “the tears of Kronos.”