Pythagoras source book and library Author:Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: presented then to hin and departed hasti3.y to their destination, Pythagoras, however, whose body had becone cnaciated through the severity of so long a fast, di... more »d not refuse the cailora1 help in landing., rnd as soon as they hr.d left partook of ac nuch of the fruits as was requisite to restore his physical vigor. Then ho went inland, in entire safety, preserving his v/onted tranquil- ity and nodesty. CHAPTER IV. STUDIES IH EGYPT AHD BABYLONIA. Here in Egypt he frequented all the tenples with the greatest diligence, and nost studious research, during which tine he wen the esteen anc' adniration of all the priests and prophets rath when he associated. Having nost solicitously familiarized hinself with every detail, ho did not, nevertheless, neglect any contemporary celebrity, whether sage renowned for wisdon, or or peculiarly performed nystcry; ho did not fail to visit any place where he thought he night discover soncthing worth while. That is hoy he visited all of the Egyptian priests, acquiring all the wisdoa each possessed. Ho thus passed twenty-two years in the sanctuaries of temples, study ing astronony and geometry, and being initiated in no casual or superficial nanner in all the nystcrics of the Gods, At length, however, he was taken captive by the soldiers of Canbyses, and carried off to Babylon, Here he was overjoyed to associate with the 1/Igi, who instructed hin in their venerable knowledge, and in the nost perfect worship of the Gods, Through their assistance, likewise, he studied and completed arithmetic, nusic, and all the other sciences. After twelve years, about the fifty-sixth year of his age, he returned to Sanos. CHAPT2H V TLAV2LS 111 GKZKEl S21TLT3GST T CtOTCKA. CW his return to Gsnos ho vc.s reconizod by so:no of the older inhabitants, v/ho foun...« less