We have already seen that this theory originated with the Pythagorean philosophers out in Italy.

ANAXILAUS, of Larissa, a physician and Pythagorean philosopher, who was banished from Rome by Augustus, B.C.

The two principal interlocutors are Simmias and Cebes, the disciples of Philolaus the Pythagorean philosopher of Thebes.

For the physical science of the ancients was traditional, descending through many generations of Ionian and Pythagorean philosophers.

He is thinking, not of the context in Plato, but of the contemporary Pythagorean philosophers and their wordy strife.

The first piece I have handled is that of "Tom Thumb," whose author was a Pythagorean philosopher.

We observe, first of all, that the dialogue is put into the mouth of a Pythagorean philosopher, and not of Socrates.