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  • verb Present participle of Pythagorize.

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  • A fragment of Antiphanes describes someone as eating “nothing animate, as if Pythagorizing” (Fr. 133 Kassel and Austin = Athenaeus IV 161a).

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • (On the basis of a spurious Alexandrian dia - logue paraphrasing Plato, “Timaeus of Locris” was long thought to be the source of Plato's Pythagorizing views.)

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968

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