overlooked, who, although he digs at him in his Silli," speaks of Pythagoras, inclined to witching works and ways, Man-snarer, fond of noble periphrase. Xenophanes b confirms the statement about his having been different people at different times in the elegiacs beginning : Now other thoughts, another path, I show. What he says of him is as follows : They say that, passing a belaboured whelp, He, full of pity, spake these words of dole : " Stay, smite not ! 'Tis a friend, a human soul ; I knew him straight whenas I heard him yelp ! " Thus Xenophanes. But Cratinus also lampooned him both in the Pythagorizing Woman and also in The Tarentines, where we read c : They are wont, If haply they a foreigner do find, To hold a cross-examination Of doctrines' worth, to trouble and confound him With terms, equations, and antitheses Brain-bung'd with magnitudes and periphrases. Again, Mnesimachus in the Alcmaeon d : To Loxias we sacrifice : Pythagoras his rite, Of nothing that is animate we ever take a bite. And Aristophon in the Pytkagorist 6 : a. He told how he travelled in Hades and looked on the dwellers below, How each of them lives, but how different by far from the lives of the dead Were the lives of the Pythagoreans, for these alone, so he said, c Cratin. minor, Meineke, C.G.F. iii. 376. d Meineke, C.G.F. iii. 567. e Meineke, C.G.F. iii. S$2. vol. n 2 a 353