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Archy`tas of Tarentum

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Famous as a statesman, a soldier, a geometrician, a philosopher, and a man; a Pythagorean in philosophy, and influential in that capacity over the minds of Plato, his contemporary, and Aristotle; was drowned in the Adriatic Sea, 4th century B.C.; his body lay unburied on the shore till a sailor humanely cast a handful of sand on it, otherwise he would have had to wander on this side the Styx for a hundred years, such the virtue of a little dust, munera pulveris , as Horace calls it.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Archy`tas of Tarentum'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/archytas-of-tarentum.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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