A new Pythagorean fragment and Homer's tears in Ennius

Although we do not know the philosophical source these scholia derive from (Erbse very plausibly suggested Porphyry; I would argue for the De regressu animae), there can hardly be any doubt that we have here a new Pythagorean fragment which communicates basic notions about metempsychosis. Pythagoras is criticized for representing the soul as afflicted by pain and grief (λνπεῖται, θρηνεῖ) when it leaves the body before entering a new one. The reasons given for its distress need not detain us here, but this new Pythagorean fragment clearly offers a conclusive solution to the vexed question of Homer's tears in Ennius, alluded to in Lucretius 1.120ff.