1st century AD), a native of Alexandria, was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher[1] who lived in the age of Tiberius.
And that animals also have cycles of progress and, so to speak, an orbit for their souls, no less than the heavenly bodies, which revolve in fixed circuits?
Great men have put faith in this idea; therefore, while holding to your own view, keep the whole question in abeyance in your mind.
If the theory is true, it is a mark of purity to refrain from eating flesh; if it be false, it is economy.
[6] Plutarch also quotes a Sotion[7] as the authority for certain statements respecting towns founded by Alexander the Great in India, which he had heard from his contemporary Potamo of Mytilene.