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  • The scholiast to the passage testifies to the continuing controversy about the Pythagorists by drawing a distinction between Pythagoreans who give every attention to their body and Pythagorists who are filthy (although another scholion reports that others say the opposite, see Arnott 1996, 581).

  • Although interpreters both ancient (including this scholiast and Simplicius) and modern (Guthrie 1965 is a good example) have seen the desire to explain nutrition and growth as the primary motivation for adopting the Everything-in-Everything principle, it is more likely that Anaxagoras’ adoption of the general metaphysical principle of No-Becoming leads him to claim that everything is in everything (Schofield 1981, Curd 2007).

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        • noun person

          - a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

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