version is that he came to Delphi and hurled himself down from Mount Corycus. But Aristoxenus in his work On Pythagoras and his School affirms that he died a natural death and was buried by Pythagoras in Delos ; another account again is that he died of a verminous disease, that Pythagoras was also present and inquired how he was, that he thrust his finger through the doorway and exclaimed, “‘ My skin tells its own tale,”’ a phrase subsequently applied by the grammarians as equivalent to “ getting worse,” although some wrongly understand it to mean “ all is going well.” He maintained that the divine name for “ table’ is @vwpds, or that which takes care of offerings. Andron of Ephesus says that there were two natives of Syros who bore the name of Pherecydes : the one was an astronomer, the other was the son of Babys and a theologian, teacher of Pythagoras. Eratosthenes, however, says that there was only one Pherecydes of Syros, the other Pherecydes being an Athenian and a genealogist. There is preserved a work by Pherecydes of Syros, a work which begins thus: “ Zeus and Time and Karth were from all eternity, and Earth was called I’) because Zeus gave her earth (y7) as guerdon (yépas).’’ His sun-dial is also preserved in the island of Syros. Duris in the second book of his Horae gives the inscription on his tomb as follows ¢ : All knowledge that a man may have had I ; Yet tell Pythagoras, were more thereby, That first of all Greeks is he; I speak no lie. Ion of Chios says of him ? :