Note 96 — ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE FOURTH.
Thomas Taylor translation
This is not wonderful; for the Jews appear to have been always negligent of cleanliness. The intelligent reader will easily perceive that there is some similitude between these Essæans and the ancient Pythagoreans, but that the latter were infinitely superior to the former. See my translation of Iamblichus’ Life of Pythagoras.