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[p. 350] dici, ut a vulgo dicitur. Sed qui diligentius scitiusque carmina Empedocli arbitrati sunt, κυάμους hoc in loco testiculos significare dicunt, eosque more Pythagorae operte atque symbolice κυάμους appellatos, quod sint αἴτιοι τοῦ κυεῖν et geniturae humanae vim praebeant; idcircoque Empedoclen versu isto non a fabulo edendo, sed a rei veneriae prolubio 1 voluisse homines deducere. [11] Plutarchus quoque, homo in disciplinis gravi auctoritate, in primo librorum quos De Homero composuit, Aristotelem philosophum scripsit eadem ipsa de Pythagoricis scripsisse, quod non abstinuerint edundis animalibus, nisi pauca carne quadam. [12] Verba ipsa Plutarchi, quoniam res inopinata est, subscripsi: ᾿αριστοτέλης δὲ μήτρας καὶ καρδίας καὶ ἀκαλήφης καὶ τοιούτων τινῶν ἄλλων ἀπέχεσθαί φησιν [13] τοὺς πυθαγορικούς: χρῆσθαι δὲ τοῖς ἄλλοις. ᾿ακαλήφη autem est animal marinum, quod “urtica” appellatur. Sed et piscibus mullis 2 abstinere Pythagoricos, Plutarchus in Symposiacis dicit. [14] Pythagoram vero ipsum, sicuti celebre est Euphorbum primo fuisse dictasse, ita 3 haec remotiora sunt his quae Clearchus et Dicaearchus memoriae tradiderunt, fuisse eum postea Pyrrum Pyranthium, deinde Aethaliden, deinde feminam pulcra facie meretricem, cui nomen fuerat Alco.
The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.
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