Quippe eo commodum dominari orso profugit ex insula clanculo Pythagoras, patre Mnesarcho nuper amisso, quem comperio inter sellularios artifices gemmis faberrime sculpendis laudem magis quam opem quaesisse.
In fact, just when Polycrates began to be tyrant, Pythagoras secretly escaped from the island, his father Mnesarchus having lately died (he, I find, was a sedentary artist, who sought praise rather than profit by his great skill as a gem cutter).
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