We seem even to be approaching a scientific proof of the doctrines of such ancient philosophical scientists as pythagoras and Plato,-that all external nature, animated throughout and controlled in its phenomena by daemons acting by the will of gods, is to men nothing more than the visible effects of an unseen world of causes.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
There is indeed no trace in Ennius of the rigid intellectual consistency of Lucretius, nor in Lucretius any sympathy with those mystic speculations which Ennius derived from the lore attributed to pythagoras.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
A Mandeville with a single cut followed in June, and in December the Trattati of Ugo Pantiera, also with a single cut, perhaps by the designer of the Calandri, since it employs the same trick of representing a master on a much larger scale than a disciple as is found in the picture of pythagoras in the earlier book.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard