The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Semnothei, as Aristotle relates in his book on Magic, and Sotion in the twenty-third book of his Succession of Philosophers. Besides these men, there were the Phoenician Ochus, the Thracian Zamolxis,original: "Zamolxis, or Zalmoxis, so called from the bear-skin (ζάλμοξις) in which he was wrapped as soon as he was born, was a Getan, and a slave of Pythagoras at Samos..." (See full text in original page annotations). and the Libyan Atlas. For the
Egyptians say that Vulcan was the son of Nilus, and that he was the author of philosophy, in which those who were especially eminent were called his priests and prophets.