Note 5 — THE ESSENES.
Reading edition
An excellent account of the Pythagorean system is given by Zeller, Geschichte der Philosophie. Erster Theil, Tübingen, 1856, pp. 206–365; Grote, History of Greece, vol. iv. London, 1857, pp. 527–553; and Mason, in Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Article Pythagoras. ↑