Pythoness
the priestess of the temple of Apollo at Delphi, who delivered 540-530 в. c. the oracles of the god; od; hence, applied to any woman who pretended to foretell coming events.
PYTHAGORAS, the celebrated Greek philosopher, born in Samos, about 580- 570 в. c. He is said to have traveled extensively, especially in Egypt. Aversion to the tyranny of Polycrates, in Samos, is said to have been the cause of his quitting that island, and he ultimately settled, between 540-530 B. C. at Crotona, one of the Greek cities of Southern Italy. There he set himself to carry out the purpose of instituting a society. Pythagoras himself was the chief, or general, general, of the order. Similar societies were founded in other cities of Italy. His teachings relating to these subjects became at length the occasion of a popular rising against the Pythagoreans at Crotona, 504 в. c.- the house in which they were assembled was