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bound to get made irrespective of any facts.
Consequently, it sheds no light at all on our
subject.

All the witnesses are unanimous that Pythagoras
having once arrived in Italy, passed
all the rest of his life there. That too, then,
we must accept, whether it seems likely
or not. For we have no facts to go upon but
the facts that assertions have been made by
those writers; and there is no way of explaining
the fact that one and all represent Pythagoras
to have passed all the rest of his life in Italy
except by supposing he really did so.

In particular Iamblichus expressly says
so. But now we meet with a singular, and therefore

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