Diogenous Laertiou Peri biōn, dogmatōn kai apophthegmatōn tōn en philosophia eudokimēsantōn biblia 10

Indeed, regarding the Magi, whose prince is said to have been the Persian Zoroaster, Hermodorus the Platonist in his book De Disciplinis On Disciplines calculates five thousand years until the fall of Troy. Xanthus the Lydian, however, counts six hundred years from Zoroaster to the crossing of Xerxes. After him, many Magi succeeded one another, such as Ostanas, Astrampsychus, Gobryas, and Pazatas, until the Persian kingdom was overturned by Alexander. But these men surely, through their lack of judgment, attribute the achievements and discoveries of the Greeks to the barbarians. For not only philosophy, but even the human race itself flowed from them at the beginning. For Musaeus to the Athenians, The...

...Note: The Latin text provides a mirror of the Greek content, confirming the lineage of the Magi and the chronology of early wisdom, while refuting the idea that Greeks borrowed from "barbarian" philosophy.