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  • Rhys Ifans is already Xenophilus, so that part is out.

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  • Aristoxenus began his philosophical career as a Pythagorean and studied with the Pythagorean Xenophilus at Athens, so that it is not surprising that his portrayal of Archytas is largely positive.

    Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

  • Other Pythagoreans such as Cleinias or Xenophilus may have done no work in the sciences but lived a Pythagorean life, which was similar to that of Archytas and followed principles similar to those set out in Aristoxenus 'Pythagorean Precepts.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • Little more is known of Xenophilus beyond his living for more than 105 years (DK I 442-443).

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • They might be expected to partially embody the views of his teacher Xenophilus.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • Aristoxenus 'teacher, Xenophilus, who is identified as from the Thracian Chalcidice in the Fragments of Aristoxenus (Frs. 18 and 19 Wehrli), is identified as from Cyzicus in the catalogue.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • Diogenes Laertius reports, evidently on the authority of Aristoxenus, that the last Pythagoreans were Xenophilus from the Thracian Chalcidice (Aristoxenus 'teacher), and four Pythagoreans from Phlius: Phanton, Echecrates, Diocles and Polymnastus.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • As for men, each of his friends in Argos furnished him with ten apiece out of those few they had, and he armed thirty of his own servants, and hired some few soldiers of Xenophilus, the chief of the robber captains, to whom it was given out that they were to march into the territory of

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Lysimachus; but the father of the one was Xenophilus, and the other lived at a much later time, as the way of writing, which is that in use since the time of Euclides, and the addition of the name of

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Xenophilus, also a Pythagorean, was one hundred and six; Demonax, a

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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