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Pherecydes of Syros

Pherecydes

also: Pherecydes

Early Greek thinker said to be the teacher of Pythagoras. Cicero notes that from well-water he foretold an earthquake, but reckons this natural philosophy rather than divination (De Divinatione 1.112).

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