Enslaved to Pythagoras, as Herodotus [says] in his fourth [book].[1] A Scythian, who returning [to his homeland] taught that the soul is immortal. But Mnaseas says that Kronos was worshipped by the Getai and called Zamolxis.[2] And Hellanicus in the Barbarian Customs[3] says that having been born a Greek he made the mysteries known to the Getai who were in Thrace and said that neither would he himself die nor those with him, but they would have all good things. As soon as he said this he built a underground dwelling. Then disappearing suddenly from the Thracians he lived in this, but the Getai longed for him. In the fourth year he appeared again, and the Thracians trusted him completely. But some say that Zamolxis was slave to Pythagoras the son of Mnesarkhos from Samos, and after he was freed he played these clever tricks. But Zamolxis appears to have lived much earlier than Pythagoras. The Terizoi and the Krobuzoi also consider themselves immortal and say that those who have died go away like Zamolxis, but will come back again. And they think that he was always speaking the truth about these matters. They sacrifice and feast, [believing] that he who has died will return.