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Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life

Note 23 — THE LIFE, &c. (continued 2)

Thomas Taylor translation

Iamblichus, in this list of Pythagoreans, must not be supposed to enumerate those only who were contemporary with Pythagoras: since, if he did, he contradicts what he says of Philolaus in Chap. 31. viz. “that he was many ages posterior to Pythagoras;” but those in general who came from the school of Pythagoras, and were his most celebrated disciples.

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