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OCELLUS LUCANUS

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OCELLUS LUCANUS , a See also:

Pythagorean philosopher, See also:born in Lucania in the 5th See also:century B.C., perhaps a See also:pupil of See also:Pythagoras himself. See also:Stobaeus (Ecl. Phys. i. 13) has preserved a fragment of his IIepi vtµou (if he was really the author) in the Doric See also:dialect, but the only one of his alleged See also:works which is extant is a See also:short See also:treatise in four chapters in the Ionic dialect generally known as On the Nature of the Universe. Excerpts from this are given in Stobaeus (i. 20), but in Doric. It is certainly not See also:authentic, and cannot be dated earlier than the 1st century B.C. It maintains the See also:doctrine that the universe is uncreated and eternal; that to its three See also:great divisions correspond the three kinds of beings—gods, men and daemons; and, finally, that the human See also:race with all its institutions (the See also:family, See also:marriage and the like) must be eternal. It See also:advocates an ascetic mode of See also:life, with a view to the perfect See also:reproduction of the race and its training in all that is See also:noble and beautiful. See also:Editions of the IIepi -ris rob' Iravn& c/tGvems, by A. F. See also:Rudolph (18oI, with commentary), and by F.

W. Mullach in Fragmenta philosophorum graecorum, i. (186o); see also E. See also:

Zeller, See also:History of See also:Greek See also:Philosophy, i. (Eng. trans.), and J. de See also:Heyden-Zielewicz in Breslauer philologische Abhandlungen, viii. 3 (1901). There is an See also:English See also:translation (1831) by See also:Thomas See also:Taylor, the Platonist.

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