Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, R.D. Hicks, transl. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942. V, 341.

Armand Delatte, Études sur la litterature Pythagoricienne, Bibliothèque de I’Ecole des Hautes Études, 217, Paris, 1915.

Peter Gorman, Pythagoras, A Life, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, P. 90.

Holger Thesleff, “Pythagorean Texts of the Hellenistic Period,” Acta Academiae Aboensis, Humaniora, Ser. A. Vol. 30, 1, p. 125 (1965) Stob., 1.10.13, 125 Wa.

Harper adopts the reading yevvâv. b Sè (Heeren), following Thesleff.

Aristotle, Metaphysics 1090a22.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata,IV.7

Stobaeus, Eclogae Physicae Dialecticae et Ethicae (Hense) IV, 586.

Stobaeus (Meineke) Florilegium,268.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata,IV, 19., Suda Lexicon,s.v. “Myia,” “Theano.” Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras,30 and 36.

Thesleff, op. cit.,123–4; Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci,608. Translated by Vicki Lynn Harper.