Arignote or Arignota (Greek: Ἀριγνώτη) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Croton (Southern Italy/Magna Grecia) who flourished around the year 500 bc. She was known as a student of Pythagoras and Theano and, according to some traditions, their daughter as well.
Among the Pythagorean Sacred Discourses (Ἱεροὶ Λόγοι, ΄΄Hieroi Logoi΄΄) there is a dictum attributed to Arignote:
“The eternal essence of numbers is the most providential cause of the whole heaven, earth and the region in between. Likewise it is the root of the continued existence of the Gods and Daimones (lesser Gods/guiding spirits), as well as that of divine men.”
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