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604 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   ) Suidas says (s. v.) that Timaeus wrote the life of Pythagoras, but as no other writer mentions such a work by the Locrian Timaeus, it is not improbable that this life of Pythagoras was simply a portion of the history of Timaeus of Tauromenium, who must have spoken of the philosopher in that portion of his work which related to the early history of Italy. (27.28)

2. Charles Short, Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary alphabetic letter E, entry Euphorbus
   Son of Panthus, a brave Trojan, whose soul Pythagoras asserted had descended to himself, through the process of transmigration, ; — A celebrated Greek physician, after whom was named the plant euphorbea; cf. (23.53)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter P
   , according to the degree of intimacy which they enjoyed with Pythagoras ; the first class being those who held the closest communion with him; or into (22.93)

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1 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, The Tragicall History of D. Faustus (A text) (ed. Hilary Binda) line 105
   Fau. Ah Pythagoras
   (1.32)

11 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Pythagoras
   Pythagoras, the famous Greek philosopher, supposed to have professed the doctrine of the migration of souls: . (9.99)

2. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 4, scene 2
   Clo. Remain thou still in
   darkness:
   thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras
   ere I will allow
   of thy wits, and fear
   to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess
   the
   soul of thy grandam. (5.79)

3. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry That
   since Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, . (5.09)

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2 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 2, commline 147
   Pythagoras, [Golden Verses, No. xii, ‘And above all things, respect thyself. (2.87)

2. William Shakespeare, Appendix: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section DRAMATIC VERSIONS, subsection Thomsons Coriolanus
   To write a play on the same subject with one of Shakspeare's is the most arduous task a dramatic writer can attempt; it is easy to avoid Shakspeare's faults, but difficult indeed to equal his beauties—Thomson's is certainly not a bad play, but when compared with Shakspeare's, it is regular, cold, and declamatory— Shakspeare has hit off the character of Coriolanus admirably; Thomson has con- siderably softened it—he grossly misrepresents it when he says of him that he was adorned with every virtue of civil life—Plutarch expressly tells us that they who admired him for his temperance, justice, and courage, disliked him in his civil transactions as overbearing, unpleasant, and aristocratical—Dionysius Halicarnassensis says much the same thing—the scene lies during the whole of Thomson's play in the Volscian camp; of course his plan differs materially from Shakspeare's, except in the 5th act—Galesus is a sort of Pythagorean Philosopher, a character introduced improperly, both as to time and place—as to time, for tho' Pythagoras had been in Italy, yet there is no reason to suppose that his doctrines had made any progress among the Volsci—as to place, for what is more absurd than to preach against war in a Camp? (1.80)

3 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Augustus J. C. Hare, Volume 2: Walks in London chapter 4, page 172
   The emulators of Phidias were Alcamenes, Critias, Nestocles, and Hegias; twenty years after, Agelades, Gallon, Polycletus, Phragmon, Gorgias, Lacon, Myron, Scopas, Pythagoras, and Perelius. (3.54)

2. London: Volume 1 (ed. Charles Knight) chapter 25, page 427
   Old Banks the juggler, our Pythagoras,
   Grave tutor to the learned horse; both which,
   Being, beyond sea, burned for one witch,
   Their spirits transmigrated to a cat.
   (2.28)

3. London: Volume 1 (ed. Charles Knight) chapter 17, page 282
   Certainly Pythagoras never expressed himself more confidently about the events of the Trojan war, in which he had served as Euphorbus the son of Panthous, than does the reverend Doctor touching the minutest circumstances of the famous Roman's arrival and sojourn at this interesting spot. (1.58)

3 from American Memory: California

1. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 570
   Nine tenths of the applicants were totally unfit fort for the work, though they professed to be able, like Pythagoras, to write on the moon and in as many languages as Pantagruel could speak. (4.96)

2. Eldorado, or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel. By Bayard Taylor page 12
   Bust of Pythagoras. (4.13)

3. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 243
   Such an instrument in the hands of a student may be likened to the dart given by Abaris, the Hyperborean priest, to Pythagoras, which carried the possessor over rivers and mountains whithersoever he listed. (3.36)

5 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. By S.M. Fuller page 131
   You sometimes need just such a field in which to wander vagrant, and if it bear a higher name, yet it may be that, in last result, the trance of Pythagoras might be classed with the more infantine transports of the Seeress of Prevorst. (4.71)

2. Cornflake crusade/by Gerald Carson page 47
   Graham acknowledged that Pythagoras had taught that man ought to confine himself to foods of vegetable origin; but his own arrival at similar conclusions was entirely independent. (3.27)

3. Reminiscences, memoirs, and lectures of Monsignor A. Ravoux, V. G page 147
   Nay, the disciples of Plato and Pythagoras, who are considered by all as the most profound philosophers of antiquity, have taught as a truth excluding all doubt, that there are in this world devils, malicious spirits, and that they ought to be appeased by sacrifices. (2.66)

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