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|lshtext=<b>Pȳthăgŏras</b>: ae, m., = [[Πυθαγόρας]],><br /><b>I</b> a [[celebrated]] [[philosopher]] of [[Samos]], [[about]] 550 B.C.; he taught in Lower [[Italy]] ([[Croton]] and [[Metapontum]]), and [[was]] the [[founder]] of the Pythagorean [[philosophy]], [[which]] [[received]] its [[name]] from him, Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 20; 1, 16, 38; 4, 1, 2; id. Fin. 5, 2, 4; id. Div. 1, 3, 5; Hor. S. 2, 6, 63; Ov. M. 15, 60; Liv. 1, 18.— The Greek [[letter]] γ (called [[littera]] Pythagorae), [[with]] its [[two]] [[divergent]] [[arms]], [[was]] used by [[Pythagoras]] as a [[symbol]] of the [[two]] [[diverse]] paths of [[life]], [[that]] of [[virtue]] and of [[vice]], Aus. Idyll. 12, 9; cf. Pers. 3, 56; v. also Lact. 6, 3, 6.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Pȳthăgŏrēus or Pȳthăgŏrīus, a, um, adj., = [[Πυθαγόρειος]],> Pythagorean: somnia, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 52: [[dogma]], Lab. ap. Prisc. p. 679: [[pavo]], [[into]] [[which]], according to the Pythagorean [[doctrine]] of [[metempsychosis]], the [[soul]] of [[Euphorbus]] had passed [[before]] it reached [[Pythagoras]], Pers. 6, 11: [[brassica]], [[highly]] recommended by [[Pythagoras]], [[Cato]], R. R. 157 in lemm. (cf. Plin. 20, 9, 33, § 78): mos, Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 160.—Plur, subst.: Pȳthă-gŏrēi (-ŏrīi), ōrum, m., the followers of the Pythagorean [[philosophy]], the Pythagoreans, Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 38; id. de Or. 2, 37, 154 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Pȳthăgŏrĭcus, a, um, adj., = [[Πυθαγορικός]] Pythagorean: libri, Liv. 30, 29: [[philosophia]], Plin. 13, 13, 27, § 86 (an interpolated [[passage]], v. Sillig in loc.): [[prudentia]], Val. Max. 4, 7, 1 ([[but]] Pythagorii, Cic. Div. 1, 30, 62 B. and K.; cf. Madv. Opusc. Ac. 1, p. 512).