neo-Pythagoreanism
noun
a philosophical system, established in Alexandria and Rome in the second century b.c., consisting mainly of revived Pythagorean doctrines with elements of Platonism and Stoicism.
neo-Pythagorean
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a word derived from
neo-Pythagoreanism.
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Philo may have borrowed from neo-Pythagorean sources, but the general tendency was the natural result of his environment and his stage of thought.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
