Historical Dissertation on Abaris

however, why Jamblichus said nothing about this matter, I am certain there was no other reason than that he, as a Greek, envied that glory—that Abaris from the Scythian nation (a race considered rude by the opinion of very many) should have taught Pythagoras—of deriving his origin [from that teaching].

(υ) Historiae Commentitiae, Book I, c. IV, p. 9, ed. Leiden 1620, 4to.
(φ) De ira Dei On the Anger of God, c. XI, p. 633.
(χ) De Civitate Dei On the City of God, Book XVIII, c. XIV, Vol. VI of his works, p. 610.
(ψ) In V. P., c. XIX, p. 92, ed. Jo. Arcerius Theodoretus, Heidelberg 1599, 4to.
(ω) Equites, Act II, Sc. II, v. 35, p. 331, ed. Aemylius Portus, Geneva 1607, fol.
(α) In Thesaurus temporum, no. 1568, ed. Amsterdam 1658, fol.
(β) In Chronicon.
(γ) In V. P., p. 136.
(δ) Ibid., c. XIX, p. 92.
(ε) In the entry "Pythagoras," Vol. III, p. 231, Ludolphus Kusterus, Cambridge 1705, fol.

§. XIII.

We have Porphyry (ζ) as an author that Abaris also perceived the principal chapters of magic from Pythagoras: "For the unerring predictions of earthquakes are remembered of him (namely Pythagoras), and the averting of plagues with speed, and the calming of violent winds and falling hail, and the making of rivers and sea waves clear for the easy crossing of his companions. Of which things Empedocles, Epimenides, and Abaris, having received a share, are said to have accomplished such things in many places." But since various kinds of magic are established by the most excellent writers on this matter, I think I must now inquire diligently into which of them Abaris was addicted. We read in most authors that there was a twofold magic among the ancients, of which one they called goeteia sorcery, baskania enchantment/evil eye, and theourgia theurgy, but the other sympatheia sympathy, or antipatheia antipathy. They believed that the former species of magic, or goeteia, baskania, or theourgia, consisted in incantations, tricks, the transformation of both one's self and others, the summoning of demons, and their ministries, which it is not at all permitted or allowed for men to use.