Political fragments of Archytas and other ancient Pythagoreans

by various authors

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Political and Ethical Fragments.

 

POLITICAL FRAGMENTS
OF
ARCHYTAS, CHARONDAS, ZALEUCUS,
AND OTHER
ANCIENT PYTHAGOREANS,
PRESERVED BY STOBÆUS;
AND ALSO,
ETHICAL FRAGMENTS
OF
Hierocles,
THE CELEBRATED COMMENTATOR ON THE GOLDEN PYTHAGORIC VERSES,
PRESERVED BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK
BY THOMAS TAYLOR.

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Αβαπτιστος ειμι φελλος ως
υπερ ερκος αλμας.

Pind. Ρyth. Od. 2.

Just like a cork unmerged I keep
On the broad barrier of the deep.

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Chiswick:
PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM,
COLLEGE HOUSE;
FOR THE TRANSLATOR, MANOR PLACE, WALWORTH.

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1822.

Chapters (not listed in original)

		PAGE
Introduction		v
Political fragments of the Pythagoreans
From the treatise of Hippodamus the Thurian on a republic		1
From the treatise of Diotogenes on sanctity		10
From the treatise of Archytas on law and justice		11
On the mutations of polities, from the treatise of Hippodamus on a polity		17
From Diotogenes in his treatise concerning a kingdom		18
From the treatise of Sthenidas the Locrian, on a kingdom		26
From the treatise of Ecphantus, the Crotonian, on a kingdom		27
From Archytas		37
From the treatise of Diotogenes on sanctity		37
The preface of Charondas, the Catanean, to his treatise of laws		38
The preface of Zaleucus, the Locrian, to his laws		46
From the treatise of Callicratidas on the felicity of families		50
From the treatise of Perictyone on the duties of a woman		57
From the treatise of Perictyone on the harmony of a woman		63
On the reverence due to parents. From the apophthegms of Aristoxenus, the Tarentine		65
From the treatise of Pempelus on parents		67
From the treatise of Phintys, the daughter of Callicrates, on the temperance of a woman		69
Ethical fragments of Hierocles, preserved by Stobaeus
How we ought to conduct ourselves towards the gods		75
How we ought to conduct ourselves towards our country		79
After what manner we ought to conduct ourselves towards our parents		83
On fraternal love		89
On wedlock		95
How we ought to conduct ourselves towards our kindred		106
On economics		112