Heraclides Ponticus reports the story that Pythagoras claimed that he had lived four lives that he could remember in detail, Diogenes Laërtius, viii.3--4 and, according to Xenophanes, Pythagoras heard the cry of his dead friend in the bark of a dog.
Heraclides Ponticus reports the story that Pythagoras claimed that he had lived four previous lives that he could remember in detail. Aulus Gellius, iv.11 According to Xenophanes, Pythagoras heard the cry of his dead friend in the bark of a dog.