Verum enimvero celebrior fama obtinet sponte eum petisse Aegyptias disciplinas atque ibi a sacerdotibus caerimoniarum incredundas potentias, numerorum admirandas vices, geometriae sollertissimas formulas <didicisse>; nec his artibus animi expletum mox Chaldaeos atque inde Bracmanos (hi sapientes viri sunt, Indiae gens est)'eorum ergo Bracmanum gymnosophistas adisse.
Nonetheless, according to the better-known account he went by his own choice in search of Egyptian lore, and he there learned from the priests the extraordinary power of their rituals, the marvelous properties of numbers, the subtlest geometrical theorems; but, his intellect not being satisfied with these sciences, he next went to the Chaldeans and thereafter to the Brahmins (these are an Indian race of wise men)'well, to those of the Brahmins who were gymnosophists.
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