Neo-Pythagoreanism, occurred by ca 50 BCE (cf. e.g. N). The pseudonymous
tracts were gradually replaced by the writings of those who saw themselves as followers
of a Platonized Pythagoras, but wrote in their own names. With few exceptions, all
known Neo-Pythagoreans were Platonists (e.g., E A, M-
G, N G, N A). In the late
3rd c. CE, P T and especially I K present a
fusion or synthesis of Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism. Some of the original
Pythagoreans (A, H, P, P, T
K), as well as some of the Neo-Pythagoreans (E, H
C S, T L), focused on the role of number in the
kosmos.
Entries on Pythagoreans (most by Zhmud [early] or Centrone [“neo-”]): A, A-
, A, A, A, A T, B,
D (P.), D, D (M) (?), E, E,
E (?), E (?), E (M), E (P.),
E, H (?), H, H, H C O,
H, I, L, L I, M S, M
G, M, M, N F, N G,
O, -O (A.), P, P, P, D
Q, S, T V, T K, T-
, X, X.
See also: A (M), A, A E, A
A, A K, A T, A, C-
, D (M.), D (M), E, E
V R, E, E, E S C,
E A, F E, G, H
H P J, I K, I “L,”
I S, K, N A, O, P-
Y, P A, P. G. . 259, P,
P O, P (M), P T, P
L, P, P, S, S A, S,
M T, T, T. A., T, V-
, Z T.
rabies see hudrophobia.
Rationalists somewhat contrived sect of medical theory, also known as “Dogmatists” (cf.
C; G); a doctor was labeled “Rationalist” if s/he believed in a theoretical
basis for medicine, and insisted etiology was a basis for treatment; contrast the Empiri-
cists and the Methodists; the Pneumaticists could be considered a kind of
Rationalist.
See also: A, C, C, D K, G, -
G I, K B, M N,
M A, P, P ( P?), P. B. 9782,
T K.
sagape ̄non probably Ferula persica Willd.: D, MM 3.81, 5.42; G, Sim-
ples 8.18.1 (12.117 K.); Miller 1969: 100; Usher 1974: 253; André 1985: 223; Durling
1993: 286; Langenheim 2003: 416.
See also: A, H (P.), T.
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