Above The Cloud With Its Shadow

From the Golden Verses (Chrysea Epē), a collection of 71 moral maxims in dactylic hexameter attributed to the Pythagorean tradition. The text was widely read in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, transmitted through the commentary of the Neoplatonist Hierocles of Alexandria. Scholars date the compilation to the early Hellenistic period, roughly 350–300 BC, though some place it later; it is pseudepigraphic rather than a direct record of Pythagoras, who left no writings of his own.