Historical Dissertation on Abaris

William Lloyd (ω) affirms that Pythagoras was born in the last year of the 43rd Olympiad. And the most learned Richard Bentley (α) asserts that Pythagoras lived in the times of Cyrus, and in his Disputation on the Epistles of Phalaris original: "Diſputatione de Phalaridis epiſtolis" he agrees with the opinion of William Lloyd and, with him, establishes that Pythagoras was born in the 43rd Olympiad. He confirms this also in his very learned Apology original: "Apologia" in defense of this disputation against the most illustrious Count Charles Boyle (β). The most renowned Heinricus Dodwellus (γ) defends the contrary position, saying that Pythagoras was born in the last year of the 52nd Olympiad. Eduardus Simsonius (δ) does not depart too far from his opinion either, referring that Pythagoras was born in the 53rd Olympiad. Clement of Alexandria (ε) also seems to support these, as he affirms that he flourished in the 62nd Olympiad: "Pythagoras," he says, "is found to have lived under the tyrant Polycrates around the 62nd Olympiad." original: "πυθαγόρας δὲ, inquit, κατὰ Πολυκράτη τὸν τύραννον περὶ τὴν ἑξηκοστὴν δευτέραν Ὀλυμπιάδα εὑρίσκεται." I find that Jamblichus (ζ) also approaches this opinion when he says that Pythagoras came to Italy in the 62nd Olympiad: "If it is necessary," he says, "to recount the particulars of what he did and said, it must be stated that he arrived in Italy around the 62nd Olympiad." original: "Εἰ δὲ δεῖ, inquit, καὶ τὰ καθ’ ἑκαστον ὑπομνημονεῦσαι, ὧν ἔπραξε καὶ εἶπε, ῥητέον, ὡς παρεγένετο μὲν εἰς Ἰταλίαν κατὰ τὴν Ὀλυμπιάδα τὴν δευτέραν ἐπὶ ταῖς ἑξήκοντα." Pliny the Elder (η), however, makes him much older when he says that Pythagoras had already discovered the nature of a certain star in the 42nd Olympiad:

"Below the sun," he says, "orbits a huge star called Venus, wandering in another path, and in its very names imitating the Sun and the Moon. For, preceding and rising before the morning, it receives the name of Lucifer, as a second sun ripening the day; on the other hand, shining from the sunset, it is named Vesper, as if extending the light and returning the turn of the Moon. Pythagoras of Samos was the first to discover this nature of it, around the 42nd Olympiad."
I said above that there is also the greatest controversy among the most learned men concerning the age of Phalaris. But since I wish to speak only in passing, due to a desire for brevity, regarding what I have reported thus far, I rightly omit a review of the various opinions on the age of Phalaris. Especially since the most renowned Heinricus Dodwellus (ϑ) has already provided a sufficiently