(), a daughter of Pythagoras and Theano, who is
mentioned By Iamblichus (Vit. Pythag. 100.28), but chiefly known to us
from an epistle of Lysis, a Pythagorean, to one Hippasus or Hipparchus, quoted by Diogenes
Laertius (8.42). In this we read that Pythagoras entrusted his writings to the care of Damo,
and strictly forbad her to give them to any one. This command she strictly observed, although
she was in extreme poverty, and received many requests to sell them; "for," he adds, " she
thought her father's precepts more precious than gold: and this she did although a woman." But
the genuineness of this last ungallant appendage is denied by Menage. (Historia Mulierum Philosopharum, 100.94.) The above command of Pythagoras was delivered
to her in writing, and this document she gave when dying to her daughter Bistalia.