Book 8
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And Aristophon in the PythagoristMeineke, C.G.F. iii. 362.: A. He told how he travelled in Hades and looked on the dwellers below, How each of them lives, but how different by far from the lives of the dead Were the lives of the Pythagoreans, for these alone, so he said, Were suffered to dine with King Pluto, which was for their piety’s sake. B. What an ill-tempered god for whom such swine, such creatures good company make; and in the same later: Their food is just greens, and to wet it pure water is all that they drink; And the want of a bath, and the vermin, and their old threadbare coats so do stink That none of the rest will come near them.
