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Pythagʹoras born at Samos; sometimes called “the Samian.” (Sixth century B.C.)
“Tis enough,
In this late age, adventurous to have touched
Light on the numbers of the Samian sage.”
Thomson.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.