Excerpt from The Secret History of Pythagoras: Translated From the Original Copy Lately Found at Otranto in Italy

The translation of this venerable Piece of Antiquity is undertook upon a double Score, being designed as well to entertain the Curiosity of the Learned, as to supply the Defects of the Ignorant. If the original Language would have been more acceptable to the one, it would have been less intelligible to the other.

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