The Works of Apuleius: Comprising the Metamorphoses, Or Golden Ass, The God of Socrates, The Florida, and His Defence, Or A Discourse on MagicBell & Daldy, 1872 - 533 pages |
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Page 43
... Pythagoras , Plato , and the most famous of the Greek philosophers , are said to have associated with them . + Linen garments . ] - See book xi . , where the linen garments of the priests of Isis are more copiously mentioned . Woollen ...
... Pythagoras , Plato , and the most famous of the Greek philosophers , are said to have associated with them . + Linen garments . ] - See book xi . , where the linen garments of the priests of Isis are more copiously mentioned . Woollen ...
Page 220
... Pythagoras , that number is especially adapted to religious purposes , I joyously and with alacrity thus supplicated with a tearful countenance the transcendently powerful Goddess : - " Queen of heaven , whether thou art the genial ...
... Pythagoras , that number is especially adapted to religious purposes , I joyously and with alacrity thus supplicated with a tearful countenance the transcendently powerful Goddess : - " Queen of heaven , whether thou art the genial ...
Page 250
... Pythagoras , who was the first to call himself a philosopher , was the handsomest person of his age ; that Zeno , of ancient times , the native of Elea , he who was the first of all , with truly critical skill , to divide speech into ...
... Pythagoras , who was the first to call himself a philosopher , was the handsomest person of his age ; that Zeno , of ancient times , the native of Elea , he who was the first of all , with truly critical skill , to divide speech into ...
Page 274
... Pythagoras , and Ostanes . * In like manner , the Purifications of Empedocles , the Dæmon of Socrates , and the abstract " Good " of Plato , became similar objects of suspicion . Consequently , I congratulate myself , when I find myself ...
... Pythagoras , and Ostanes . * In like manner , the Purifications of Empedocles , the Dæmon of Socrates , and the abstract " Good " of Plato , became similar objects of suspicion . Consequently , I congratulate myself , when I find myself ...
Page 278
... Pythagoras was a follower of Zoroaster , and was , like him , skilled in magic , and have informed us in their writings , that when in the vicinity of Metapontum , on the shores of his own part of Italy which he had made a kind of ...
... Pythagoras was a follower of Zoroaster , and was , like him , skilled in magic , and have informed us in their writings , that when in the vicinity of Metapontum , on the shores of his own part of Italy which he had made a kind of ...
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