OCELLUS the LUCANIAN

OCELLUS the LUCANIAN, an ancient Greek philosopher of the school of Pythagoras, who lived before Plato. His work πῦρ τὸν Παῖδα, or "The Universe," is the only piece of his which is come down entire to us; and was written originally in the Doric dialect, but

was translated by another hand into the Attic. William Christian, and after him Lewis Nogara, translated this work into Latin; and we have several editions of it, both in Greek and Latin.