ABSTRACT
The same identification of the druidic belief in immortality with the Pythagorean teaching was made by Valerius Maximus in the early part of the 1st century.
And there are two other points. Firstly, the recorded instances of resemblances between the druidic and Pythagorean systems are not sufficiently remarkable to justify a claim for their intimate relationship; and secondly, in each case the growth of the systems can be explained in local terms without recourse to such distant borrowings.
