suiting- jest^ and vulgar tales. He would punish neither slave nor free man in anger. Admonition he used to call " setting right." He used to practise divination bv sounds or voices and by auguries, never by burnt-offerings, beyond frankincense. The offerings lie made were always inanimate ; though some say that he would offer cocks, sucking goats and porkers, as they are called, but lambs never. However, Aristoxenus has it that he consented to the eating of all other animals, and only abstained from ploughing oxen and rams. The same authority, as we have seen, asserts that Pythagoras took his doctrines from the Delphic priestess Themistoclea. Hieronymus, however, says that, when he had descended into Hades, he saw the soul of Hesiod bound fast to a brazen pillar and gibbering, and the soul of Homer hung on a tree with serpents writhing about it, this being their punishment for what they had said about the gods ; he also sawunder torture those who would not remain faithful to their wives. This, says our authority, is why he was honoured by the people of Croton. Aristippus of Cyrene affirms in his work On the Physicists that he was named Pvthagoras because he uttered the truth as infallibly as did the Pythian oracle. He is said to have advised his disciples as follows : Always to say on entering their own doors : Where did I trespass ? What did I achieve ? And unfulfilled what duties did I leave ? Not to let victims be brought for sacrifice to the gods, and to worship only at the altar unstained with blood. Not to call the gods to witness, man's duty being rather to strive to make his own word carry