Euphorbus
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
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Orations
Trojan warrior noted by Homer for his hair, killed by Menelaus.
and about the hair of Euphorbus and Patroclus, as having died in the very prime;
"his locks, like the Graces', were drenched with blood, and his braids that were clasped with gold and silver.
De Anima
Trojan warrior whose past identity Pythagoras claimed, refuted through personality inconsistency.
but Pythagoras so inactive and unwarlike that, shunning the battles of Greece then, he preferred the quiet of Italy, devoted to geometry and astrology and music, a stranger to the study and affection of Euphorbus.
How will he persuade me that he was Aethalides and Euphorbus and Pyrrhus the fisherman and Hermotimus, before Pythagoras, in order to persuade me that the living are made out of the dead — he who again perjured himself to be Pythagoras?
De Carnis Resurrectione
Legendary Trojan warrior whose soul was said to have passed into Pythagoras.
Yet it is enough that the philosophy of Pythagoras and Empedocles and the Platonists, no smaller, cries out to the contrary that the soul is immortal — indeed they go further and most nearly affirm that it may return into bodies, though not into the same ones, though not into human bodies only, so that Euphorbus is reckoned to pass into Pythagoras, and Homer into a peacock.