Historical Dissertation on Abaris

continues from previous page: Disputation of public law. Whose opinion proposed in that disputation is subscribed to by Orosius (ι) and Richard Bentley (κ). And let these things be said regarding the times of Pythagoras and Phalaris. From which we see that, although we know for certain that Abaris lived at one and the same time with them, we are nevertheless still uncertain in what year he was among the living, since the discussion as to what time Pythagoras and Phalaris lived their lives has not yet been settled.

Footnotes preserved for the reader: (ι) In v. Ἄβαρις. (κ) In v. Ἄβαρις. (τ) In Thes. temp. p. 169. ed. Amstel. 1658. (υ) In Chronol. p. 63. ed. Vitenb. 1650. f. (φ) In V. P. p. 193. ed. Cantabr. 1655. 8. (χ) De V. P. c. XXXII. p. 188. ed. Jo. Arcerii Theodoreti Heidelb. 1598. (ψ) Exercitat. de Phalar. atque Pythag. aetate Lond. 1704. 8. (ω) In Chronologia Pythagorae Lond. 1699. 8. (α) In praefat. Disputationi de epistolis Phalaridis, Themistoclis, Socratis, Euripidis et aliorum vt et fabulis Aesopi praefixae ad Guil. VVottonum Lond. 1697. 8. (β) Titulus huius Apologiae est: "A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. VVith an answer to the Obiections of the honourable Charles Boyle. Lond. 1699. 8." (γ) Dissert. III. de Cyclis Graecor. §. XII. ed. Oxoniae 1704. 8. (δ) Chron. Cathol. P. III. p. 113. n. 3438 ed. Oxon. 1652 f. (ε) Strom. L. I. p. 302. ed. Colon. 1688. f. (ζ) De Vita Pythag. L. I. c. VII. p. 47. ed. cit. (η) L. II. H. N. c. VIII. p. 150. ed. Jo. Harduini. Paris. 1685. 4. Vol. (θ) Lond. 1704. 8. (ι) L. XX. (κ) In praefat. ad Disput. de Phalar. epistolis. Lond. 1697. 8.

The most celebrated man Joannes Albertus Fabricius (λ), having embraced the opinion of Hippostratus which Harpocration (μ) mentions and of which I have already spoken above, refers the life of Abaris to the 3rd Olympiad: "Abaris," he says, "also a Scythian, is younger than Homer, famous about the 3rd Olympiad." And a little later he continues: "But he was older than Pythagoras himself, and a book under his..."