A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ἀλεξικράτης), a Pythagorean philosopher who lived at the time of Plutarch, and whose disciples continued to observe the ancient diet of the Pythagoreans, abstaining from fish altogether. (Plut. Sympos. viii. p. 728.) Another person of this name occurs in Plutarch, Plut. Pyrrh. 5.)

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