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 chus, Men of great Reading, and diffuse Knowledge, who, after Diogenes, wrote the Life of the same Pythagoras, would not have omitted any material Thing of that kind, if they had any where met with it.

Amongst his other Journies, Sir William Temple mentions Pythagoras's Journy to Delphos (u). Here, by the by, I must beg leave to put Sir William Temple in mind of a small Mistake that he commits in the Word Delphos, both here, and pag. 13. when he speaks of Thales. In both Places he says that Pythagoras and Thales travelled to Delphos: He might as well have said, that they travelled to Ægyptum, and Phœniciam, and Cretam. It should be printed therefore, in his next Edition, to Phœnicia, and Delphi: For the English use the Nominative Cases of old Names, when they express them in their Mother Tongue. But setting that aside, what this makes to his purpose, is not easie to guess. Apollo's Priestesses are not famous for discovering Secrets in Natural or Mathematical Matters; and as for Moral Truths, they might as well be known without going thither to fetch them. , in his Discourses of the Heathen Oracles, has endeavoured to prove, that they were Errata