work." Pythagoras in fact wrote three books, On Education, On Statesmanship, and On Nature. But the book which passes as the work of Pythagoras is by Lysis of Tarentum, a Pythagorean, who fled to Thebes and taught Epaminondas. a Heraclides, the son of Serapion, in his Epitome of Sotion, says that he also wrote a poem On the Universe, and secondly the Sacred Poem which begins : Young men, come reverence in quietude All these my words ; thirdly On the Soul, fourthly Of Piety, fifthly Helothales the Father of Epicharmus of Cos, sixthly Croton, and other works as well. The same authority says that the poem On the Mysteries was written by Hippasus to defame Pythagoras, and that many others written by Aston of Croton were ascribed to Pythagoras. Aristoxenus says that Pythagoras got most of his moral doctrines from the Delphic priestess Themistoclea. According to Ion of Chios in his Triagmi he ascribed some poems of his own making to Orpheus. b They further attribute to him the Scopiads which begins thus : Be not shameless, before any man. Sosicrates in his Successions of Philosophers says that, when Leon the tyrant of Phlius asked him who he was, he said, " A philosopher," c and that he compared life to the Great Games, where some went to which, like all those attributed to Pythagoras, must have been a late forgerv. 6 F.H.G. Fr. 12, ii. p. 49. The same fragment is found in Clem. Alex. Strom, i. 131 "\wv 8e 6 Xtos ev rots Tpiay- /xoh Kai llvdaybpav els 'Opcpea apeveyKeiv riva luropei. The verbal agreement, except for riva iarope'c, is exact. e Cf. i. 12, whence it would seem that Sosicrates used Heraclides of Pontus as his authority for this anecdote.