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