# Later lives print years of silence as a novitiate discipline

Date: 1905

## The fact

Iamblichus English describes long silence before speech in the group.

## Context

Not a state court. A received novitiate as printed.

[Pythagoras](/people/pythagoras) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official encyclopedia, Loeb, or heritage pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12868; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Printed years-of-silence are not a 6th-century statute.

Printed years-of-silence are not a 6th-century statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Pythagoras: https://factrail.ai/people/pythagoras

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/pythagoras/
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12868

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/py-forced-silence-novices