gods distant skies,Pythagoras drew near mind;what nature denied human — Ovid

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Although the gods were in the distant skies,Pythagoras drew near them with his mind;what nature had denied to human sight,he saw with his intellect, his mental eye.When he, with reason and tenacious care,had probed all things, he taught– to those who gatheredin silence and amazement– what he'd learnedof the beginnings of the universe,of what caused things to happen, and what istheir nature: what god is, whence come the snows,what is the origin of lightning bolts–whether it is the thundering winds or Jovethat cleave the cloudbanks– and what is the cause of earthquakes, and what laws control the courseof stars: in sum, whatever had been hid,Pythagoras revealed.

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