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Testimonia gathers the ancient reports about Ocellus Lucanus, a Pythagorean of Lucania in southern Italy said to belong to the fifth century BC, about whom little is reliably known. They come from Iamblichus, Censorinus, Philo, Sextus Empiricus, Diogenes Laertius, Syrianus, Stobaeus and John Lydus, and include a letter ascribed to Archytas and references to the writings circulating under Ocellus' name.
These testimonies show how later antiquity came to regard Ocellus as a real early Pythagorean and the author of treatises on the universe and on law. They are the main evidence for how his reputation grew and for how the pseudo-Pythagorean writings attached to his name were received by philosophers and scholars.
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