Historical Dissertation on Abaris

disputation on this subject regarding public law. Orosius (ι) and Richard Bentley (κ) subscribe to the opinion proposed in that disputation. And let these things be said about 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 as them, we are nevertheless still uncertain in what year he lived among the living, since the debate over the time when Pythagoras and Phalaris lived has not yet been settled.

(ρ) In the entry "Abaris"
(σ) In the entry "Abaris"
(τ) In Thesaurus temporum Treasury of Times, p. 169, ed. Amsterdam 1658, fol.
(υ) In Chronologia, p. 63, ed. Wittenberg 1601, fol.
(φ) In V. P. Life of Pythagoras, p. 193, ed. Cambridge 1655, 8vo.
(χ) De V. P. On the Life of Pythagoras, c. XXXII, p. 188, ed. Jo. Arcerius Theodoretus, Heidelberg 1598, 4to.
(ψ) Exercitationes de Phalaridis atque Pythagorae aetate Exercises on the Age of Phalaris and Pythagoras, London 1704, 8vo.
(ω) In Chronologia Pythagorae, London 1699, 8vo.
(α) In the preface prefixed to the Disputation on the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides and others, as well as the Fables of Aesop, addressed to William Wotton, London 1697, 8vo.
(β) The title of this Apology is: A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With an answer to the Objections of the honourable Charles Boyle. London 1699, 8vo.
(γ) Dissertatio III de Cyclis Graecorum, s. XII, ed. Oxford 1704, 8vo.
(δ) Chronicon Catholicum, Part III, p. 113, no. 3438, ed. Oxford 1652, fol.
(ε) Stromata, Book I, p. 302, ed. Cologne 1688, fol.
(ζ) De Vita Pythagorae, Book I, c. VII, p. 47, ed. cit.
(η) Book II, Naturalis Historia, c. VIII, p. 150, ed. Jo. Harduinus, Paris 1685, 4to.
(θ) London 1704, 8vo.
(ι) Book XX.
(κ) In the preface to the Disputation on the Epistles of Phalaris, London 1697, 8vo.

§. X.

The most celebrated Joannes Albertus Fabricius (λ) embraces the opinion of Hippostratus, which Harpocration (μ) mentions and about which I have already spoken above, and refers the life of Abaris to the 3rd Olympiad: "Abaris," he says, "is also younger than Homer, likewise a Scythian, famous around the 3rd Olympiad." And a little later he continues: "But he was older than Pythagoras himself, and I do not doubt that the book under his name addressed to Abaris, like many others, was fabricated by some Pythagorean or Platonist." But I wish that most learned man had added the arguments by which he was led to write these things, since I cannot at all persuade myself that the authority of Hippostratus alone was so great with the most learned Fabricius that he would reject the opinion of the remaining writers, who make him a contemporary of Pythagoras, to agree with Hippostratus. Eduardus Simsonius (ν), while desiring to combine these various opinions, fell into Scylla while trying to avoid Charybdis. For he establishes that there were two Abarises, of whom the former lived in the 3rd Olympiad, but the latter in the 54th Olympiad. It is easy to see that Simsonius is entirely devoid of sufficient arguments to prove this opinion.