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Subject: PYTHAGORUS (580-500 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARCHITECTS, by EDITH CLAIRE CAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pythagoras, the wise, who in those lost days
Last Line: Is to rebuild the world.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.)


LINE OF VERSE OF YEATS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: World-famous golden-thighed pythagorus
Subject(s): Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.)


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 15: THE TEACHINGS OF PYTHAGORUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man here, samian born, but he
Last Line: Let appetite refrain from flesh, take only %a gentler nourishment
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.)


PYTHAGORAS AND THE DOG, by XENOPHANES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once he was passing by an ill-used pup
Last Line: I recognized it when I heard it yell.'
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.)


PYTHAGORAS, HIS MORAL RULES, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First to immortal god thy duty pay
Last Line: A deathless saint, no more shalt mortal be.
Subject(s): Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.)