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Ficino provided a complete translation of the writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus into Latin as well as translations of 39 of the short Pythagorean sayings known as symbola, many of which are ancient, and Hierocles 'commentary on the pseudo-Pythagorean

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

After the five elements, the offering tray, and the personal symbola collage of pictures of great-looking men she pulled out of magazinesshe pointed out the seashells of her mothers, and her grandmothers doily.

Making Room for Mr. Right Robin 2009

After the five elements, the offering tray, and the personal symbola collage of pictures of great-looking men she pulled out of magazinesshe pointed out the seashells of her mothers, and her grandmothers doily.

Making Room for Mr. Right Robin 2009

The anecdote is drawn from Androcydes 'work on the Pythagorean symbola or taboos.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

These trivial doctrines have been thought to be the various taboos preserved in the symbola, but, since his follower Lucius is explicitly said to follow the symbola, it seems unlikely that Moderatus was critical of them.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

Plutarch explicitly labels him a Pythagorean and presents his follower, Lucius, as living a life in accord with the Pythagorean taboos, known as symbola or acusmata

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

There is no evidence that Alexander himself followed Pythagorean practices, but he wrote a book On Pythagorean Symbols, which was presumably an account of the Pythagorean acusmata (or symbola), which set out the taboos that governed many aspects of the Pythagorean way of life.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

All other symbola or mathemata were excluded; Eutyches and Nestorius were unmistakably condemned, while the anathemas of Cyril were accepted.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Dominum ipsum, et Domini ministrum, confitentes, sacramentorum res dari ab ipso Domino, symbola autem a Domini ministris.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Sed quod panis et vinum ex institutione Domini symbola sint, quibus ab ipso Domino per ecclesiae ministerium vera corporis et sanguinis ejus communicatio, non in periturum ventris cibum, sed in aeternae vitae alimoniam exhibeatur.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889