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[7] But the book which passes as the work of Pythagoras is by Lysis of Tarentum, a Pythagorean, who fled to Thebes and taught Epaminondas.
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Heraclides, the son of Serapion, in his
Epitome of Sotion, says that he also wrote a poem
On the Universe, and secondly the
Sacred Poem which begins:
Young men, come reverence in quietude
All these my words;
thirdly
On the Soul, fourthly
Of Piety, fifthly
Helothales the Father of Epicharmus of Cos, sixthly
Croton, and other works as well. The same authority says that the poem
On the Mysteries was written by Hippasus to defame Pythagoras, and that many others written by Aston of Croton were ascribed to Pythagoras. Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.
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