Historical Dissertation on Abaris

it could have been clear to Proclus from a similar Iamblichus. The most famous man Ioannes Albertus Fabricius $(η)$ indeed denies that any book was written by Pythagoras to Abaris, yet he seems to me to affirm that a certain booklet, inscribed with the name of Pythagoras and addressed to Abaris, was once in circulation, when he says: "He (namely Abaris) was older than Pythagoras himself, and I do not doubt that a book under this (namely Pythagoras's) name was composed by some Pythagorean or Platonist, addressed to Abaris, just like many others." And in another place $(\vartheta)$ he says: "Abaris, to whom a book was attributed under the name of Pythagoras." And let these things said about the names of Abaris suffice, from which we understand that the name Βάρις Baris and Ἄβαρις Abaris were attributed to our philosopher only because of a mistake by scribes, both in the Greek interpreter of Aristophanes and in Proclus. What remains, I consider it would not be irrelevant if I made mention in this place of a certain book, which is ascribed to Heraclides and bears the title Ἀβάριδος of Abaris, which I judge to have happened because, perhaps, the author of that book recounted either the very things that are reported about Abaris or other miracles similar to these in it. Plutarch $(o)$ makes mention of this book when he says:

For they do not only go through the Aesopic fables and the poetic themes and the Abaris of Heraclides and the Lycon of Ariston, but they also charmingly interweave the doctrines concerning the soul.

$(ζ)$ In Knights Act II, Scene II, v. 35, p. 331, ed. Aem. Portus. Geneva 1607, fol.
$(η)$ In animadversions on Eusebius's Thesaurus temporum, no. 1454, ed. Amsterdam 1658, fol.
$(\vartheta)$ Book III, p. 141, ed. Basel 1534, fol.
$(o)$ In the paradoxical dialogue on the Writings of Socrates, p. 83, which dialogue is annexed to the letters of Socrates and the Socratics published by Allatius in Paris 1637.
$(κ)$ Exercises on the same subject, §. II. Leipzig 1696, 4to. In which exercise the most famous Olearius communicated to the literary world two letters, which are commonly inscribed to Plato, found long ago in the Barocci manuscript at Oxford by that most learned man and never before published by anyone.