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Title: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Author: Diogenes Laërtius
Translator: C. D. Yonge Laërtius
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Introduction | |
Thales | |
Solon | |
Chilo | |
Pittacus | |
Bias | |
Cleobulus | |
Periander | |
Anacharsis, the Scythian | |
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Epimenides | |
Pherecydes | |
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Anaximander | |
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Æschines | |
Aristippus | |
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Euclides | |
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Crito | |
Simon | |
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Simias | |
Cebes | |
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Aristotle | |
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Diogenes | |
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Herillus | |
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Thales the son of Examius, a Milesian, offers this to Apollo Didymæus, having twice received it from the Greeks as the reward for virtue.
“The religion of the ancient Persians was the worship of fire or of the elements, in which fire was symbolical of the Deity. At a later period, in the time of the Greeks, the ancient worship was changed into the adoration of the stars (Sabæism), especially of the sun and of the morning star. This religion was distinguished by a simple and majestic character. Its priests were called Magi.”—Tenneman’s Manual of the History of Philosophy, Introd. § 70.
“The Chaldæans were devoted to the worship of the stars and to astrology; the nature of their climate and country disposing them to it. The worship of the stars was revived by them and widely disseminated even subsequently to the Christian era.”—Ibid. § 71.
“Cicero speaks of those who in India are accounted philosophers, living naked and enduring the greatest severity of winter without betraying any feeling of pain, and displaying the same insensibility when exposed to the flames.”—Tusc. Quæst. v. 27.
“The religion of the Britons was one of the most considerable parts of their government, and the Druids who were their priests, possessed great authority among them. Besides ministering at the altar, and directing all religious duties, they presided over the education of youth; they possessed both the civil and criminal jurisdiction, they decided all controversies among states as well as among private persons, and whoever refused to submit to their decree was exposed to the most severe penalties. The sentence of excommunication was pronounced against him; he was forbidden access to the sacrifices of public worship; he was debarred all intercourse with his fellow citizens even in the common affairs of life: his company was universally shunned as profane and dangerous, he was refused the protection of law, and death itself became an acceptable relief from the misery and infamy to which he was exposed. Thus the bonds of government, which were naturally loose among that rude and turbulent people, were happily corroborated by the terrors of their superstition.
“No species of superstition was ever more terrible than that of the Druids; besides the several penalties which it was in the power of the ecclesiastics to inflict in this world, they inculcated the eternal transmigration of souls, and thereby extended their authority as far as the fears of their timorous votaries. They practised their rites in dark groves or other secret recesses, and in order to throw a greater mystery over their religion, they communicated their doctrines only to the initiated, and strictly forbade the committing of them to writing, lest they should at any time be exposed to the examination of the profane and vulgar. Human sacrifices were practised among them; the spoils of war were often devoted to their divinities, and they punished with the severest tortures whoever dared to secrete any part of the consecrated offering. These treasures they kept secreted in woods and forests, secured by no other guard than the terrors of their religion; and their steady conquest over human avidity may be regarded as more signal than their prompting men to the most extraordinary and most violent efforts. No idolatrous worship ever attained such an ascendant over mankind as that of the ancient Gauls and Britons. And the Romans after their conquest, finding it impossible to reconcile those nations to the laws and institutions of their masters while it maintained its authority, were at last obliged to abolish it by penal statutes, a violence which had never in any other instance been resorted to by those tolerating conquerors.”—Hume’s History of England, chap. 1. § 1.
“Zamolxis, or Zalmoxis, so called from the bear-skin (ζάλμος) in which he was wrapped as soon as he was born, was a Getan, and a slave of Pythagoras at Samos; having been emancipated by his master, he travelled into Egypt; and on his return to his own country he introduced the ideas which he had acquired in his travels on the subject of civilisation, religion, and the immortality of the soul. He was made priest of the chief deity among the Getæ, and was afterwards himself worshipped as a divine person. He was said to have lived in a subterraneous cavern for three years, and after that to have re-appeared among his countrymen.” Herodotus, however, who records these stories (iv. 95), expresses his disbelief of them, placing him before the time of Pythagoras by many years, and seems to incline to the belief that he was an indigenous Getan deity.
The real time of Zoroaster is, as may be supposed, very uncertain, but he is said by some eminent writers to have lived in the time of Darius Hystaspes; though others, apparently on better grounds, place him at a very far earlier date. He is not mentioned by Herodotus at all. His native country too is very uncertain. Some writers, among whom are Ctesias and Ammian, call him a Bactrian, while Porphyry speaks of him as a Chaldæan, and Pliny as a native of Proconnesus;—Niebuhr considers him a purely mythical personage. The great and fundamental article of the system (of the Persian theology) was the celebrated doctrine of the two principles; a bold and injudicious attempt of Eastern philosophy to reconcile the existence of moral and physical evil with the attributes of a beneficent Creator and governor of the world. The first and original being, in whom, or by whom the universe exists, is denominated, in the writings of Zoroaster, Time without bounds.… From either the blind or the intelligent operation of this infinite Time, which bears but too near an affinity to the Chaos of the Greeks, the two secondary but active principles of the universe were from all eternity produced; Ormusd and Ahriman, each of them possessed of the powers of creation, but each disposed by his invariable nature to exercise them with different designs; the principle of good is eternally absorbed in light, the principle of evil is eternally buried in darkness. The wise benevolence of Ormusd formed man capable of virtue, and abundantly provided his fair habitation with the materials of happiness. By his vigilant providence the motion of the planets, the order of the seasons, and the temperate mixture of the elements are preserved. But the maker of Ahriman has long since pierced Ormusd’s Egg, or in other words, has violated the harmony of his works. Since that fatal irruption, the most minute articles of good and evil are intimately intermingled and agitated together; the rankest poisons spring up among the most salutary plants; deluges, earthquakes, and conflagrations attest the conflict of nature, and the little world of man is perpetually shaken by vice and misfortune. While the rest of mankind are led away captives in the chains of their infernal enemy, the faithful Persian alone reserves his religious adoration for his friend and protector Ormusd, and fights under his banner of light, in the full confidence that he shall, in the last day, share the glory of his triumph. At that decisive period, the enlightened wisdom of goodness will render the power of Ormusd superior to the furious malice of his rival; Ahriman and his followers, disarmed and subdued, will sink into their native darkness, and virtue will maintain the eternal peace and harmony of the universe.… As a legislator, Zoroaster “discovered a liberal concern for the public and private happiness seldom to be found among the visionary schemes of superstition. Fasting and celibacy, the common means of purchasing the divine favour, he condemns with abhorrence, as a criminal rejection of the best gifts of Providence.”—Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, c. viii.
This is the account given by Virgil—
This was the temple of the national deity of the Ionians, Neptune Heliconius, on Mount Mycale.—Vide Smith, Dict. Gr. and Rom. Antiq.
Vide Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, ii. p. 34.
One of the Sporades.
An island near Crete.
Hom. Il. 2. 671. Dryden’s Version.
Vide Herod. lib. 1. c. 30-33.
A drachma was something less than ten pence.
“Ἔνη καὶ νέα the last day of the month: elsewhere τριανιὰς. So called for this reason. The old Greek year was lunar; now the moon’s monthly orbit is twenty-nine and a half days. So that if the first month began with the sun and moon together at sunrise, at the month’s end it would be sunset; and the second month would begin at sunset. To prevent this irregularity, Solon made the latter half day belong to the first month; so that this thirtieth day consisted of two halves, one belonging to the old, the other to the new moon. And when the lunar month fell into disuse, the last day of the calendar month was still called Ἔνη καὶ νέα.”—L. & S. Greek Lexicon, in v. ἔνος.
Herodotus mentions the case of Periander’s children, iii. 50, and the death of his wife, and his burning the clothes of all the Corinthian women, v. 92.
Some propose to read καρπὸν, fruit, instead of καπνὸν, smoke, here; others explain this saying as meaning that the Greeks avoided houses on the hills in order not to be annoyed with the smoke from the low cottage, and yet did not use coal, but wood, which would make more smoke.
This refers to the result of the war which Antipater, who became regent of Macedonia on the death of Alexander the Great, carried on against the confederacy of Greek states, of which Athens was the head; and in which, after having defeated them at Cranon, he compelled the Athenians to abolish the democracy, and to admit a garrison into Munychia.
Φρύγανα, sticks or faggots.
After the battle of Arginusæ.
“This is not quite correct. Socrates believed that the dæmon which attended him, limited his warnings to his own conduct; preventing him from doing what was wrong, but not prompting him to do right.”—See Grote’s admirable chapter on Socrates. Hist. of Greece, vol. v.
Grote gives good reasons for disbelieving this.
The Greek is, ἐν τῷ πρὸς Ξενοφῶντα ἀποστασίου—“ἀποστασίου δίκη, an action against a freedman for having forsaken or slighted his προστάτης.”—L. & S.
This is exactly the character that Horace gives of him:—
Plutarch, in his life of Pompey, attributes these lines to Sophocles, but does not mention the play in which they occurred.
The French translator gives the following examples, to show what is meant by these several kinds of quibbling arguments:—
The lying one is this:—Is the man a liar who says that he tells lies. If he is, then he does not tell lies; and if he does not tell lies, is he a liar?
The concealed one:—Do you know this man who is concealed? If you do not, you do not know your own father; for he it is who is concealed.
The veiled one is much the same as the preceding.
The electra is a quibble of the same kind as the two preceding ones: Electra sees Orestes: she knows that Orestes is her brother, but does not know that the man she sees is Orestes; therefore she does know, and does not know, her brother at the same time.
The Sorites is universally known.
The bald one is a kind of Sorites; pulling one hair out of a man’s head will not make him bald, nor two, nor three, and so on till every hair in his head is pulled out.
The horned one:—You have what you have not lost. You have not lost horns, therefore you have horns.
From ἐλέγχω, to confute.
Κρόνος, take away Κ. ρ., leaves ὄνος, an ass.
The quibble here is that θεὸς is properly only masculine, though it is sometimes used as feminine.
The Greek is a parody on the descriptions of Tantalus and Sisyphus. Hom. Od. ii. 581, 592. See also, Dryden’s Version, B. ii. 719.
The Greek is τοῦ μιμογράφου. “A mime was a kind of prose drama, intended as a familiar representation of life and character, without any distinct plot. It was divided into μῖμιοι ἀνδρεῖοι and γυναικεῖοι, also into μῖμοι σπουδαίων and γελοίων.”—L. &. S. in voc. μῖμος.
The Greek is, ὡς ἀνέπλαττε Πλάτων πεπλασμένα θαύματα εἰδώς.
This figure was like a barbed arrow, according to Zevort.
Herophilus was one of the most celebrated physicians of antiquity, who founded the Medical School at Alexandria, in the time of the first Ptolemy.
Hom. Od. x. 387. Pope’s Version, 450.
Perhaps there is a pun here; ἀστράγαλος means not only a knout composed of small bones strung together, but also a die.
This is a quotation from some lost play of Euripides, slightly altered, the line, as printed in the Variorum Edition, vol. vii., Mc. Trag. cxxx. is—
There is a pun here which is untranslateable. The Greek is πλὴν ὅταν τόκος παρῇ, meaning usury, and also offspring or delivery.
Hom. Od. x. 335. Pope’s Version, 387.
Hom. Il. vi. 211. Pope’s Version, 254.
This is a quotation from the Hippolytus of Euripides, v. 424.
I doubt if the wit of these parodies will be appreciated by the modern reader. The lines of Homer, which they are intended to parody, are:—
The first of which is translated by Pope:—
The Greek parody in the text is:—
From λύω, solvo, to relax or weaken the limbs.
From περιπατέω, “to walk about.”
Il. 18, 95.
This very spirited version I owe to the kindness of my brother, the Rev. J. E. Yonge, of Eton College.
“ἐντελέχεια, the actuality of a thing, as opposed to simple capability or potentiality (δύναμις); a philosophic word invented by Aristotle.— … quite distinct from ἐνδελέχεια, though Cicero (Tusc. i. 10,) confounded them.”—L. & S. in voc.
From θεῖος divine, and φράσις diction.
This was a temple of the Muses which he had built for a school.
So as to make it appear connected with γλυκὺς, sweet.
στάμνος, means an earthenware jar for wine.
The foregoing account hardly does justice to Demetrius, who was a man of real ability, and of a very different class to the generality of those whom the ancients dignified with the title of philosophers. He was called Phalereus, to distinguish him from his contemporary Demetrius Poliorcetes. His administration of the affairs of Athens was so successful, that Cicero gives him the praise of having re-established the sinking and almost prostrate power of the republic. (Cic. de Rep. ii. 1.) As an orator, he is spoken of by the same great authority with the highest admiration. Cicero calls him “a subtle disputer, not vehement, but very sweet, as a pupil of Theophrastus might be expected to be.” (de Off. i. 3.) In another place he praises him as possessed of great learning, and as one who “rather delighted than inflamed the Athenians.” (de Clav. Orat. § 37.) And says, “that he was the first person who endeavoured to soften eloquence, and who made it tender and gentle; preferring to appear sweet, as indeed he was, rather than vehement.” (Ibid. § 38.) In another place he says, “Demetrius Phalereus the most polished of all those orators” (he has been mentioning Demosthenes, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Æschines, and Dinarchus) “in my opinion.” (de Orat. ii. 23.) And he praises him for not confining his learning to the schools, but for bringing it into daily use, and employing it as one of his ordinary weapons. (de Leg. iii. 14.) And asks who can be found besides him who excelled in both ways, so as to be pre-eminent at the same time as a scholar, and a governor of a state. (Ibid.) He mentions his death in the oration for Rabirius Postumus, § 9. He appears to have died about B.C. 282.
From πομπὴ, a procession.
There is a play on the similarity of the two sounds, κοινὴ, common, and ποίνη, punishment.
The Greek is, ἐς κόρακας, which was a proverb for utter destruction.
The passage is not free from difficulty; but the thing which misled Diogenes appears to have been that νόμισμα, the word here used, meant both “a coin, or coinage,” and “a custom.”
This line is from Euripides, Medea, 411.
The saperda was the coracinus (a kind of fish) when salted.
This is probably an allusion to a prosecution instituted by Demosthenes against Midias, which was afterwards compromised by Midias paying Demosthenes thirty minæ, or three thousand drachmæ. See Dem. Or. cont. Midias.
This is a pun upon the similarity of Athlias’s name to the Greek adjective ἄθλιος, which signifies miserable.
The ἱερομνήμονες were the sacred secretaries or recorders sent by each Amphictyonic state to the council along with their πυλαγόρας, (the actual deputy or minister). L. & S. Gr. & Eng. Lex., in voc.
There is a pun here. Χείρων is the word used for worse. Chiron was also the most celebrated of the Centaurs, the tutor of Achilles.
There is a pun intended here; as Diogenes proposed Didymus a fate somewhat similar to that of the beaver.
This is taken from Homer, Il. κ. 387. Pope’s Version, 455.
This is also from Homer, Il. θ. 95. Pope’s Version, 120.
This is a parody on Homer, Il. ξ. 95, where the line ends οἷ’ ἀγορεύεις—“if such is your language,” which Diogenes here changes to οἷ’ ἀγοράζεις, if you buy such things.
This is a line of the Phœnissæ of Euripides, v. 40.
The pun here is on the similarity of the noun ἐλάαν, an olive, to the verb ἐλαᾶν, to drive; the words μάστιξεν δ’ ἐλαᾶν are of frequent occurrence in Homer.
This line occurs, Hom. Il. ε. 83.
The Samothracian Gods were Gods of the sea, and it was customary for those who had been saved from shipwreck to make them an offering of some part of what they had saved; and of their hair, if they had saved nothing but their lives.
Eurytion was another of the Centaurs, who was killed by Hercules.
This is a pun on the similarity of the sound, Tegea, to τέγος, a brothel.
The Greek is ἔρανον αἰτούμενος πρὸς τὸν ἐρανάρχην ἔφη,—ἔρανος was not only a subscription or contribution for the support of the poor, but also a club or society of subscribers to a common fund for any purpose, social, commercial, or charitable, or especially political.… On the various ἔρανοι, v. Böckh, P. E. i. 328. Att. Process. p. 540, s. 99. L. & S. in voc. ἔρανος.
Hom. Il. Γ. 65.
There is a pun here; κόρη means both “a girl” and “the pupil of the eye.” And φθείρω, “to destroy,” is also especially used for “to seduce.”
This is a parody on Homer. Il. 591. Pope’s Version, 760.
Hom. Il. Σ. 395. Pope’s version, 460.
This line is from the Bacchæ of Euripides, v. 1228.
From this last paragraph it is inferred by some critics, that originally the preceding memoirs of Crates, Metrocles, and Hipparchia formed only one chapter or book.
This a parody on two lines in the Antiope of Euripides:
Which may be translated:—
A sort of guitar or violin.
The Greek is, ἐν τῷ θερίζοντι λόγῳ, a species of argument so called, because he who used it mowed or knocked down his adversaries.—Aldob.
The Greek in the text is:—
The lines in Hesiod are:—
Huerner thinks (as indeed is evident) that something is lost here; and proposes to read the sentence thus:—Τῶν δὲ κατηγορημάτων τὰ μέν ἐστι συμβάματα ὡς τὸ πλεῖν, οἷον Σωκράτης πλεῖ, τὰ δὲ παρασυμβάματα ὡς τὸ διὰ πέτρας πλεῖν. With reference to which passage, Liddell and Scott, Gr. Eng. Lex. voc. σύμβαμα, thus speak: “σύμβαμα … as a philosophical term of the Stoics = κατηγόρημα, a complete predicament such as is an intransitive verb: e.g. Σωκράτης περιπατεῖ; while an imperfect verb was regarded as an incomplete predicament; e.g. Σωκράτει μέλει, and called παρασύμβαμα, or παρακατηγόρημα.”
This line is from the Inachus of Sophocles (one of his lost plays).
Homer, Iliad II. 484.
This line is from the Citharista of Menander.
It would appear that there is a considerable hiatus here; for the instance following is a sorites, and not a specimen of the veiled argument. And there is no instance given of the concealed, or of the horned one. Still, the mere fact of the text being unintelligible, is far from proving that we have not got it as Diogenes wrote it; as though in the language of the writer in Smith’s Biographical Dictionary, vol. i. pp. 1022, 1023, “the work contains a rich store of living features, which serve to illustrate the private life of the Greeks,” it is equally clear that the author “was unequal to writing a history of Greek philosophy. His work in reality is nothing but a compilation of the most heterogeneous and often contradictory accounts.… The traces of carelessness and mistakes are very numerous; much in the work is confused, and there is also much that is quite absurd. And as far as philosophy itself is concerned, Diogenes very frequently did not know what he was talking about when he abridged the theories of the philosophers.”
The third point of view is wanting; and those that are given appear to be ill selected. The French translator, following the hint of Huebner, gives the following passage from Sextus Empiricus (a physician of the Sceptic school, about B.C. 250), in his work against the Philosophers, which he says may serve to rectify and complete the statement of Diogenes Laërtius. “Good is said in one sense of that which produces the useful, or from which the useful results; that is, the good par excellence, virtue. For virtue is as it were the source from which all utility naturally flows. In another sense it is said of that which is accidentally the cause of utility; under this point of view we call good not only virtue, but also those actions which are conformable to virtue, for they are accidentally useful. In the third and last place, we call good everything that possibly can be useful, comprehending under this definition virtue, virtuous actions, friends, good men, the Gods, &c., &c.”
Hom. Il. I. 81. Pope’s Version, l. 105.
It is hardly necessary to remark that Ἀθηνᾶ is the name of Minerva, not of Jupiter; Ἥρα, of Juno; Ἥφαιστος, of Vulcan; Ποσειδῶν, of Neptune, and Δημήτηρ, of Ceres. Ἥφαιστος is properly derived from φαίνω, to shine; Ποσειδῶν has some affinity with πόω, to drink. Δημήτηρ is only a dialectic variation of Τῆ μητὴρ.
There is a hiatus in the text here. Casaubon supplies the meaning by a reference to Plutarch’s Treatise on the opinions of the Philosophers, iii. 7, “that the winds are a flowing of the air, and that they have various names with reference to the countries from which they flow.”
Something is evidently wanting here; probably some mention of an earthquake.
This is similar to Virgil’s description.
There is no part of Dryden’s translation superior to that of this passage.
“Ὑποτελὶς, a name given by Herillus in Diogenes Laërtius to a man’s natural talents, &c., which ought all to be subordinate to the attainment of the chief good.”—L. & S. in voc.
From φρέαρ, a well, and ἀντλέω to draw water.
The Greek used is ἀποφορὰ; which was a term especially applied to the money which slaves let out to hire paid to their master.
This is a parody on Hom. Il. iii. 196. Pope’s version, i. 260. The word ὅλμος means the mouth piece of a flute.
Taken from the Orestes of Euripides, i. 140.
This is parodied from Hom. Od. iv. 611. Pope’s version, l. 831.
This is referring to the Stoic doctrine ridiculed by Horace:
Which may be translated:—
From κρύπτω, to hide, and ἵππος, a horse.
These lines are from the Erestes of Euripides, v. 247.
This is a quotation from Homer, Od. x. 495. Pope’s Version, 586. The Greek here is, οἷος πέπνυται. The line in Homer stands:
The argument by progression is the sorites. “The arrest” is the method of encountering the sorites, by taking some particular point at which to stop the admissions required by the sorites.
The remainder of the life of Chrysippus is lost.
See Herod. iv. 93.
This resembles the account which Ovid puts into the mouth of Pythagoras, in the last book of his Metamorphoses, where he makes him say:—
Which may be translated:—
This passage has been interpreted in more ways than one. Casaubon thinks with great probability that there is a hiatus in the text. I have endeavoured to extract a meaning out of what remains. Compare Samuel ii. 16, 23. “And the counsel of Ahitophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahitophel both with David and with Absalom.”
Zaleucus was the celebrated lawgiver of the Epizephyrian Locrians, and is said to have been originally a slave employed by a shepherd, and to have been set free and appointed lawgiver by the direction of an oracle, in consequence of his announcing some excellent laws, which he represented Minerva as having communicated to him in a dream. Diogenes, is wrong however, in calling him a disciple of Pythagoras (see Bentley on Phalaris), as he lived about a hundred years before his time; his true date being 660 B.C. The code of Zaleucus is stated to have been the first collection of written laws that the Greeks possessed. Their character was that of great severity. They have not come down to us. His death is said to have occurred thus. Among his laws was one forbidding any citizen to enter the senate house in arms, under the penalty of death. But in a sudden emergency, Zaleucus himself, in a moment of forgetfulness, transgressed his own law: on which he slew himself, declaring that he would vindicate his law. (Eustath. ad. Il. i. p. 60). Diodorus, however, tells the same story of Charondas.
Charondas was a lawgiver of Catana, who legislated for his own city and the other towns of Chalcidian origin in Magna Grecia, such as Zancle, Naxos, Leontini, Eubœa, Mylæ, Himera, Callipolis, and Rhegium. His laws have not been preserved to us, with the exception of a few judgments. They were probably in verse, for Athenæus says that they were sung in Athens at banquets. Aristotle tells us that they were adapted to an aristocracy. It is much doubted whether it is really true that he was a disciple of Pythagoras, though we are not sure of his exact time, so that we cannot pronounce it as impossible as in the preceding case. He must have lived before the time of Anaxilaus, tyrant of Rhegium, who reigned from B.C. 494 to B.C. 476, because he abolished the laws of Charondas, which had previously been in force in that city. Diodorus gives a code of laws which he states that Charondas gave to the city of Thurii, which was not founded till B.C. 443, when he must certainly have been dead a long time. There is one law of his preserved by Stobæus, which is probably authentic, since it is found in a fragment of Theophrastus; enacting that all buying and selling shall be transacted by ready money only.
This doctrine is alluded to doubtfully by Virgil, Georg. i. 247.
Thus translated by Dryden, l. 338:—
νοῦς appears, in a division like this, to be the deliberative part of the mind; φρὴν, the rational part of the intellect: θυμὸς, that part with which the passions are concerned.
There is a great variety of suggestions as to the proper reading here. There is evidently some corruption in the text.
From παύω, to cause to cease, ἀνία, sorrow.
It is impossible to give the force of this epigram in any other language. It is a pun on Ἄκρων, Ἀκράγας and ἄκρος. The last word meaning not only high, lofty, but also eminent, very skilful. The plain English would be:—“The lofty height of a most eminent country conceals Acron, a skilful physician of Acragas, the son of a skilful father.” The variation would be:—“A high tomb on a very high summit, conceals,” &c.
This story is mentioned by Horace:—
This is slightly parodied from Homer. Od. xi. 278. Pope’s Version, 337.
There were three festivals of Bacchus at Athens at which dramatic contests took place, the Διονύσια κατ’ ἄγρους, or, “in the fields;” the Ληναῖα or τὰ ἐν Λίμναις, or “the marshes,” a part of the city near the Acropolis, in which was situated the Λήναιον, an enclosure dedicated to Bacchus; and the τὰ ἐν ἄστει, “in the city,” or τὰ μέγαλα Διονύσια. The comic contests usually took place at the second or Lenæan festivals. Sometimes also at the Great Dionysia.
ἔνδοξος, glorious.
According to Strabo, the descendants of Androclus, the founder of Ephesus (of which family Heraclitus came), bore the title of king, and had certain prerogatives and privileges attached to the title.
There is probably some corruption in the text here.
There is great obscurity and uncertainty of the text here. The reading translated is that of Huebner, πεφωρᾶσθαι. Some read πεπρᾶσθαι, he seems to have abandoned the Pythagoreans. Others propose πεπρᾶχθαι. The French translator renders,—He had for enemies the Pythagoreans.
See the account of Zeno the Cittiæan.
See the life of Parmenides.
There is evidently a considerable gap in the text here.
As there is no such passage in Herodotus, Valckenær conjectures that we ought here to read Metrodorus.
The Thesmophoria was a festival in honour of Ceres, celebrated in various parts of Greece; and only by married women; though girls might perform some of the ceremonies. Herodotus says, that it was introduced into Greece from Egypt, by the daughters of Danaus. The Attic Thesmophoria lasted probably three days, and began on the eleventh day of the month Pyanession; the first day was called ἄνοδος, or κάθοδος, from the women going in procession to Eleusis; the second νηστεία, or fasting; the third was called καλλιγένεια, as on that day Ceres was invoked under that name, and it was the day of merriment of the festival.
Namely, reasoning well, expressing one’s self well, and acting well.
This is thus embodied by Lucretius:—
Hom. Il. v. 340. Pope’s version, 422.
Il. vi. 146.
Il. xxi. 106. Pope’s version, 115.
Homer, Il. xx. 248. Pope’s version, 294.
There is too remarkable a similarity in this to Campbell’s lines:—
to allow one to pass it over without pointing it out.
“Diogenes here appears (though, he gives no intimation of his doing so,) to be transcribing the reasonings of some one of the Sceptics.” French Transl.
That is to say, the harmony between intellect and the senses will not last long. Attagas and Numenius were two notorious brigands.
That is, “trifler,” from κρίνω, to judge; and λῆρος, nonsensical talk.
That is, flattering for gifts; from σαίνω, to wag the tail as a dog, to caress; and δῶρον, a gift.
This sentence is a remark of Diogenes himself. There are several more of his observations in parentheses as we proceed.
This is the argument in its completed form: “We can only form an idea of an atom by analogy, and analogy demonstrates to us that it is not of infinite littleness. In fact, let us compare it to the smallest particles recognisable by sense, and then let us endeavour to form an idea of these last. To do this we must take a term of comparison in complex objects, which are composed of various parts. Abstracting from these all other characteristics but that of extent, we see that these objects have dimensions, some greater and some less, measuring an extent which is greater or less as the case may be. The smallest sensible particle will then have its dimensions; it will measure the smallest possible sensible extent, that is to say, it will not be infinitely small. Applying this analogy to an atom, one comes to conceive it as measuring the smallest extent possible, but not as having no extent at all, which was what Epicurus wished to prove.”—French Translator.
This is a quotation from Theognis.
From the Trachiniæ of Sophocles, 1784.
There is some hopeless corruption in the text here. Nor has any one succeeded in making it intelligible. The French translator divides it into two maxims.
There in some great corruption here again. The French translator takes 19, 20, and 21 all as one.
Transcriber’s Note
The original of this text was not edited as carefully as it could have been. As a result, for this e-text quite a number of changes have been made. These are based on comparison with other editions of the same work and with the original Greek text.
List of changes made:
Page 7, “apophthegmns” changed to “apophthegms” (apophthegms in enigmatical language)
Page 12, “Pyhrronean” changed to “Pyrrhonean” (the Pyrrhonean is repudiated by many writers)
Page 14, “Focus” changed to “Phocus” (Phocus the Samian)
Page 16, “Bathydes” changed to “Bathycles” twice (of the name of Bathycles / the son of Bathycles)
Page 31, “ursurping” changed to “usurping” (from usurping the tyranny)
Page 35, “his” changed to “her” (Pamphila says, in the second book of her Commentaries)
Page 37, “Favorinus” changed to “Phavorinus” (as Phavorinus tells us)
Page 46, “Anacharis” changed to “Anacharsis” (Anacharsis the Scythian was the son of Gnurus)
Page 51, “Ctesilius” changed to “Ctesibius” (Cratinus and Ctesibius)
Page 51, “Rhodamanthus” changed to “Rhadamanthus” (on Minos and Rhadamanthus)
Page 53, “Sosilius” changed to “Sosibius” (as Sosibius the Lacedæmonian says)
Page 55, “wiih” changed to “with” (Adorned with valour while alive)
Page 57, plus in 22 other places throughout the book, “Pharorinus” changed to “Phavorinus”
Page 57, missing words “Ionic dialect.” added (and wrote in the Ionic dialect.)
Page 60, “Phalerius” changed to “Phalereus” (as Demetrius Phalereus tells us)
Page 61, “Metro” changed to “Metrodorus” (and Metrodorus, of Lampsacus)
Page 61, “Medison” changed to “Medism” (but also for Medism)
Page 63, “becaused” changed to “because” (because he enlarged his principles)
Page 63, “Meætetus” changed to “Theætetus” (as Plato records in his Theætetus)
Page 63, “Moresimachus” changed to “Mnesimachus” (to which idea, Mnesimachus speaks)
Page 65, “Delian” changed to “Delium” (saved Xenophon in the battle of Delium)
Page 66, “Crononian” changed to “Cranonian” (Scopas the Cranonian)
Page 67, repeated word “and” removed (and all such kind of follies)
Page 68, “Glauson” changed to “Glaucon” (he wrought upon Glaucon)
Page 68, “Glauernides” changed to “Glauconides” (and Glauconides said, that)
Page 69, repeated word “it” removed (that it was not absurd to learn)
Page 69, “Augur” changed to “Auge” (Euripides, in his Auge)
Page 71 and following pages, “Melitus” changed to “Meletus” 7 times
Page 72, “Pittea” changed to “Pithus” (the son of Meletus, of Pithus)
Page 73, “Iystæus” changed to “Tyrtæus” (they said that Tyrtæus was out of his wits)
Page 74, “Cereops” changed to “Cercops” (in his lifetime with Cercops)
Page 74, “Aphimenes” changed to “Amphimenes” (Amphimenes of Cos)
Page 74, “Salamis” changed to “Salarus” (Salarus of Priene)
Page 74, “Cellæus” changed to “Alcæus” (Alcæus and Anaxagoras)
Page 74, “Sosibrius” changed to “Sosibius” (Anaxagoras with Sosibius)
Page 74, “Timocrea” changed to “Timocreon” (Simonides with Timocreon)
Page 80, “Jelanges” changed to “Telauges” (the Telauges, and the Rhino)
Page 80, “Caramis” changed to “Carcinus” (Carcinus, the tragedian)
Page 82, “prefering” changed to “preferring” (by preferring one beauty to the rest)
Page 84, “Aretes” changed to “Arete” (his daughter Arete)
Page 84, repeated word “a” removed (whether one takes a house)
Page 85, “reproched” changed to “reproached” (when some one reproached him)
Page 89, “Annicerci” changed to “Annicerei” (some Annicerei, others Theodorei)
Page 89, “Pyræbates” changed to “Paræbates” (the master of Paræbates)
Page 89, “Parætius” changed to “Panætius” (as Panætius also tells us)
Page 93, “Theodereans” changed to “Theodoreans” (The Theodoreans, as they are called)
Page 95, “so” changed to “to” (Metrocles the Cynic, who was washing leeks, said to him)
Page 95, “Rhœus” changed to “Rhœcus” (a Samian, the son of Rhœcus)
Page 95, “Musicial” changed to “Musical” (a treatise on Musical Composers)
Page 96, “Athenæas” changed to “Athenæus” (a physician, a pupil of Athenæus)
Page 96, “Phistamus” changed to “Plistanus” (his successor was Plistanus of Elis)
Page 96, “Philias” changed to “Phlius” (Asclepiades of Phlius)
Page 97, “may” changed to “many” (a great many arguments)
Page 98, “preplexing” changed to “perplexing” (Asking his horned quibbles, and perplexing)
Page 98, “C” changed to “R” (unable to pronounce the R)
Page 100, “Therium” changed to “Thurii” (Clinomachus of Thurii)
Page 100, “Dippilus” changed to “Diphilus” (Diphilus of the Bosphorus)
Page 100, “Venites” changed to “Venetes” (Myrmex of the Venetes)
Page 102, “Syphon” changed to “Typhon” (where Typhon’s voice resounds)
Page 102, “Cnistippus” changed to “Aristippus” (the Aristippus or Callias)
Page 103, “Sophibus” changed to “Sophilus” (Sophilus the comic poet)
Page 103, “dicourse” changed to “discourse” (the whole discourse of this Charinus)
Page 103, “Polititical” changed to “Political” (on Political Science)
Page 104, “Minexenus” changed to “Menexenus” (the Cephalus; the Anaxiphemus; the Menexenus)
Page 105, “Simeas” changed to “Simias” (Simias was a Theban)
Page 105, “Theoprobidæ” changed to “Theopropidæ” (one of those who are called Theopropidæ)
Page 106, “Cassandra” changed to “Cassandrea” (Eurylochus, of Cassandrea)
Page 107, “Nicorreon” changed to “Nicocreon” (at the court of Nicocreon)
Page 110, “Hyporicus” changed to “Hipponicus” (Hipponicus the Macedonian)
Page 110, “Hipporicus” changed to “Hipponicus” (Hipponicus gave Menedemus two thousand drachmas)
Page 113, “Petone” changed to “Potone” (the son of Ariston and Perictione or Potone)
Page 113, “Diopidas” changed to “Dropidas” (had a brother named Dropidas)
Page 114, “Conservations” changed to “Conversations” (the eighth book of his Philosophical Conversations)
Page 114, “Petone” changed to “Potone” (a sister called Potone)
Page 116, “Alcinus” changed to “Alcimus” (as Alcimus says in his essays)
Page 117, “Alcinus” changed to “Alcimus” (And Alcimus speaks as follows)
Page 119, “Alcinus” changed to “Alcimus” (compared by Alcimus through four books)
Page 120, “Deni” changed to “Dion” twice (being appeased by Dion / it was Dion who sent the money)
Page 120, “Aristimenes” changed to “Aristomenes” (being appeased by Dion and Aristomenes)
Page 120, “Helia” changed to “Helice” (drowned in Helice)
Page 121, “Thetas” changed to “Theotas” (suspected of exciting Dion and Theotas)
Page 123, “Mesopis” changed to “Meropis” (Alexis says in his Meropis)
Page 123, “Analion” changed to “Ancylion” (And in his Ancylion, he says)
Page 123, “Pseudripobolimæus” changed to “Pseudypobolimæus” (Cratinas in his Pseudypobolimæus, says)
Page 126, “Sothon” changed to “Sathon” (which he entitled Sathon)
Page 127, “Mysonianus” changed to “Myronianus” (But Myronianus, in his Resemblances)
Page 128, “Cephiciades” changed to “Cephisiades” (the temple of the Cephisiades)
Page 128, “Phreanian” changed to “Phrearrian” (Archestratus the Phrearrian)
Page 128, “Challidian” changed to “Chollidian” (Philip the Chollidian)
Page 128, “Ademantus” changed to “Adimantus” (shall belong to my son Adimantus)
Page 128, “Sychon” changed to “Tychon” (My slaves Tychon, Bictas)
Page 128, “Tozthenes” changed to “Sosthenes” (My executors shall be Sosthenes)
Page 130, “Alexander” changed to “Alexamenus” (Alexamenus, a native of Styra)
Page 130, “at” changed to “as” (the other is as it were tentative)
Page 131, “Clitiphon” changed to “Clitophon” (the Menexenus, the Clitophon, the Epistles)
Page 131, “Hippiastro” changed to “Hippias too” (and Protagoras, Hippias too)
Page 134, “Meætetus” changed to “Theætetus” (The Theætetus, or Knowledge)
Page 135, “Aristodemns” changed to “Aristodemus” (one letter to Aristodemus)
Page 135, “Chilidon” changed to “Chelidon” (the Demodorus; the Chelidon; the Seventh;)
Page 139, “lives” changed to “live” (those which live in the water)
Page 142, “Lacædemon” changed to “Lacedæmon” (in Lacedæmon and Macedonia)
Page 152, “aud” changed to “and” (paralysis, and sent to)
Page 153, “Amartynus” changed to “Amartyrus” (an Essay addressed to Amartyrus)
Page 155, “Myornianus” changed to “Myronianus” (as Myronianus tells us in his Similitudes)
Page 156, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (the Archedemus, or an essay on Justice)
Page 157, “Spuesippus” changed to “Speusippus” (He succeeded Speusippus)
Page 162, “Meætetus” changed to “Theætetus the poet wrote thus about him” (Theætetus the poet wrote thus about him)
Page 167, “Aleximes” changed to “Alexinus” (a certain dialectician, a pupil of Alexinus)
Page 167, “Callecrates” changed to “Callicrates” (that of Archecrates and Callicrates)
Page 168, “Aristi” changed to “Aristo” (Aristo, the Chian)
Page 168, “Mydea” changed to “Myrlea” (Cleochares of Myrlea)
Page 169, “Alcymeus” changed to “Alcyoneus” (the birthday of Alcyoneus)
Page 174, “Eretosthenes” changed to “Eratosthenes” (they relate that Eratosthenes said)
Page 176, “Proconnesas” changed to “Proconnesus” (he was a native of Proconnesus)
Page 179, “logoædical” changed to “logaœdical” (lines in logaœdical Archebulian metre)
Page 183, “Demophelus” changed to “Demophilus” (his prosecutor was Demophilus)
Page 184, “Calumia” changed to “Calauria” (Demosthenes died in Calauria)
Page 184, “Calisthenes” changed to “Callisthenes” (the conspiracy of Callisthenes against Alexander)
Page 186, “Aubracis” changed to “Ambracis” (Ambracis shall have her liberty)
Page 186, “where-ever” changed to “wherever” (wherever else they think fit)
Page 188, “is” changed to “his” (and his answer was)
Page 193, “incoporeal” changed to “incorporeal” (something which has an incorporeal species)
Page 194, “his” changed to “her” (as Pamphila asserts in the thirty-second book of her Commentaries)
Page 194, “Menandar” changed to “Menander” (he was the tutor of Menander)
Page 195, “Tyrtanius” changed to “Tyrtamus” (His name had originally been Tyrtamus)
Page 196, “Phalerius” changed to “Phalereus” (by the assistance of Demetrius Phalereus)
Page 199, repeated word “Natural” removed (Problems in Natural History)
Page 199, “Astyceron” changed to “Astycreon” (Letters to Astycreon, Phanias, and Nicanor)
Page 200, “Callenus” changed to “Callinus” (Neleus, Strato, Callinus, Demotimus)
Page 201, “Donar” changed to “Donax” (and Donax to Neleus)
Page 201, “Eulius” changed to “Eubius” (I order Eubius to be sold)
Page 202, “Thrasos” changed to “Thasos” (Lysistratus of Thasos)
Page 202, “dilligence” changed to “diligence” (in the diligence with which he applied himself)
Page 204, “Innesigenes” changed to “Mnesigenes” (Aristides, Mnesigenes, Hippocrates)
Page 204, “Olympicus” changed to “Olympichus” (let Iræus calculate with Olympichus)
Page 204, “Ausinias” changed to “Aminias” (with Olympichus and Aminias)
Page 204, “Philoreatos” changed to “Philocrates” (Philocrates, the son of Tisamenus)
Page 205, “saying” changed to “sayings” (Another of his sayings was)
Page 206, repeated word “in” removed (all that I have in the city)
Page 207, “Amplicon” changed to “Amphion” (and Ariston, and Amphion, and Lycon)
Page 208, “Micras” changed to “Micrus” twice (Micrus I hereby present with his freedom / I also hereby emancipate the mother of Micrus)
Page 208, “Menedora” changed to “Menodora” (four minæ, and Menodora)
Page 208, “to” changed to “too” (in this respect too he deserves)
Page 211, “Antiphones” changed to “Antiphanes” (on Antiphanes, one;)
Page 212, “Colatia” changed to “Calatia” (the sixth was a native of Calatia)
Page 212, “Euthyræ” changed to “Erythræ” (the twelfth was a grammarian of Erythræ)
Page 212, “Bythinian” changed to “Bithynian” (the thirteenth was a Bithynian)
Page 212, “Pamotus” changed to “Panætius” (Panætius of Rhodes)
Page 212, “unsubtantial” changed to “unsubstantial” (Fought o’er a tomb and unsubstantial shade)
Page 215, “Aretodorus” changed to “Autodorus” (Autodorus the Epicurean reproaches him)
Page 215, “Spentharus” changed to “Spintharus” (as some say Spintharus)
Page 216, “Panculus” changed to “Pancalus” (they formed the name of Pancalus)
Page 216, “Nisius” changed to “Hicesius” (a physician, a pupil of Hicesius)
Page 219, “Philosphers” changed to “Philosophers” (his treatise on the Philosophers)
Page 223, missing word “an” added (an essay on Telemachus)
Page 224, “Tresius” changed to “Hicesius” (the son of Hicesius, a money-changer)
Page 224, “Perdalus” changed to “Pordalus” (he himself, in his Pordalus)
Page 225, “Polymeter” changed to “Polyeuctus” (Polyeuctus, the orator)
Page 225, “Æschorion” changed to “Æschrion” (Lysanias, the son of Æschrion)
Page 231, “Ægesilaus” changed to “Agesilaus” (if Agesilaus and Epaminondas are)
Page 233, “Calisthenes” changed to “Callisthenes” (the happiness of Callisthenes)
Page 239, “Thelian” changed to “Melian” (Diagoras the Melian)
Page 244, “belong” changed to “belongs” (everything belongs to the wise)
Page 245, “Philistus” changed to “Philiscus” (not rather the work of Philiscus)
Page 245, “Circe” changed to “crier” (when the crier asked him)
Page 247, missing word “art” added (Since you alone did teach to men the art)
Page 247, “Œdippus” changed to “Œdipus” (the Chrysippus, and the Œdipus)
Page 247, “Solmæus” changed to “Tolmæus” (the Beggar; the Tolmæus; the Leopard)
Page 248, “Sicymian” changed to “Sicyonian” (The second was a Sicyonian)
Page 249, “Osnesicritus” changed to “Onesicritus” (Onesicritus is called by some authors)
Page 249, “Clocus” changed to “Clœus” (Hegesæus of Sinope, who was nicknamed Clœus)
Page 254, “Theomentus” changed to “Theombrotus” (His pupils were Theombrotus and Cleomenes)
Page 257, “Celotes” changed to “Colotes” (a disciple of Colotes of Lampsacus)
Page 259, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (Zeno was the son of Mnaseas)
Page 260, “Priscanactium” changed to “Peisianactium” (colonnade which is called the Peisianactium)
Page 262, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (Since Zeno the son of Mnaseas)
Page 263, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (Zeno, the son of Mnaseas, the Cittiæan)
Page 263, “Acharnæs” changed to “Acharnæ” (Medon of Acharnæ)
Page 263, “Mecythus of Sypalyttas” changed to “Micythus of Sypalettus” (Micythus of Sypalettus, and Dion)
Page 264, “simdapsus” changed to “skindapsus” (Likewise her mind was less than a skindapsus.)
Page 265, “coni” changed to “coin” (well-formed like the coin)
Page 265, “tessedrachmas” changed to “tetradrachmas” (he likened to the Attic tetradrachmas)
Page 268, “perssn” changed to “person” (why he was the only person)
Page 269, “entertaiments” changed to “entertainments” (in entertainments of that kind)
Page 270, “sumits” changed to “summits” (The summits of Olympus)
Page 271, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (his father Mnaseas often came to Athens)
Page 272, “Hesophila” changed to “Herophila” (the sixth was a physician of Herophila), although it is possible “a Herophilean physician”, i.e. a follower of Herophilus, is intended here.
Page 273, “Halcymeus” changed to “Halcyoneus” (to whose son, Halcyoneus, he also acted)
Page 273, “Theles” changed to “Thebes” (Philonides, of Thebes)
Page 274, “Posidorus” changed to “Posidonius” (Diogenes, the Babylonian; and Posidonius)
Page 274, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (Chrysippus, and Archedemus, and Eudromus)
Page 275, “coversant” changed to “conversant” (which is conversant with rules and tests)
Page 279, “Boethius” changed to “Boethus” (For Boethus leaves a great many criteria)
Page 279, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (so it is laid down by Archedemus)
Page 282, “deificiences” changed to “deficiencies” (of attributes and deficiencies)
Page 291, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (And Archedemus defines it)
Page 297, “exite” changed to “excite” (do not excite any inclination)
Page 306, “Chrysyppus” changed to “Chrysippus” (Another doctrine of Chrysippus)
Page 306, “Thrasmides” changed to “Thrasonides” (Accordingly, that Thrasonides)
Page 316, “sone” changed to “some” (some of them are shakings)
Page 318, “Scion” changed to “Siren” (surnamed the Siren)
Page 320, “Scayon” changed to “Scazon” (a jesting epigram on him in Scazon iambics)
Page 326, “Innesistratus” changed to “Mnesistratus” (Once, when Mnesistratus accused him)
Page 328, “Dioles” changed to “Diocles” (as Diocles reports)
Page 328, “Cryxippus” changed to “Crypsippus” (Carneades called him Crypsippus)
Page 330, “Aristocrea” changed to “Aristocreon” (the sons of his sister, Aristocreon and Philocrates)
Page 330, “heirophant” changed to “hierophant” (the hierophant reveals them)
Page 331, repeated word “a” removed (there is then a head that you have not got)
Page 333, “Sosigines” changed to “Sosigenes” (addressed to Sosigenes and Alexander)
Page 333, “Panthorides” changed to “Panthoides” (Ambiguous Expressions, by Panthoides)
Page 333, “Agatha” changed to “Agathon” (an essay to Agathon)
Page 334, “Meliager” changed to “Meleager” twice (addressed to Meleager / addressed also to Meleager)
Page 334, “hyopthethical” changed to “hypothetical” (of hypothetical reasoning to serve as an Introduction)
Page 334, missing word “to” added (an introduction to Fallacy, addressed to Aristocreon)
Page 335, “Oretis” changed to “Outis” (an essay on the Argument Outis)
Page 340, “maner” changed to “manner” (writes in the following manner)
Page 341, “Scopeadæ” changed to “Scopiadæ” (the poem called the Scopiadæ)
Page 343, “then” changed to “them” (allowed his disciples to eat them)
Page 353, “Innesimachus” changed to “Mnesimachus” (And Mnesimachus says in his Alcmæon)
Page 353, “Austophon” changed to “Aristophon” (Aristophon says in his Pythagorean)
Page 354, “Cortona” changed to “Crotona” (at the house of Milo, of Crotona)
Page 356, “Sarapian” changed to “Sarapion” (Heraclides, the son of Sarapion)
Page 356, “Phythagoras” changed to “Pythagoras” (Should you Pythagoras’ doctrine wish to know)
Page 357, “Echurates” changed to “Echecrates” (and Echecrates, and Diodes)
Page 359, “Jelanges” changed to “Telauges” (Now Telauges and Theano we have mentioned)
Page 360, “Jelanges” changed to “Telauges” twice (But Telauges, the son of Pythagoras / the letter of Telauges)
Page 362, missing section number “VI.” added in what seemed to be the appropriate place for it (VI. The case of the dead woman)
Page 364, “κοουφῆς” changed to “κορυφῆς” (Ἀκροτάτης κορυφῆς τύμβος ἄκρος κατέχει.)
Page 369, “Innesagoras” changed to “Mnesagoras” (the son of Mnesagoras)
Page 369, “Orellus” changed to “Ocellus” (the descendants of Ocellus)
Page 373, “Octacteris” changed to “Octaeteris” (the treatise called the Octaeteris)
Page 373, “Mansolus” changed to “Mausolus” (he also went to the court of Mausolus)
Page 373, “Nichomachus” changed to “Nicomachus” (Nicomachus, the son of Aristotle)
Page 374, “Sicilist” changed to “Siciliot” (the third, a Siciliot, a son of Agathocles)
Page 376, “Heraceon” changed to “Heracion” (the son of Blyson, or, as some say, of Heracion)
Page 381, “Phaleruus” changed to “Phalereus” (Demetrius Phalereus also mentions him)
Page 381, “Scythenus” changed to “Scythinus” (Scythinus, an iambic poet)
Page 382, “Zande” changed to “Zancle” (lived at Zancle, in Sicily)
Page 383, “Anaxemander” changed to “Anaximander” (a contemporary of Anaximander)
Page 384, “Diochartes” changed to “Diochaetes” (and Diochaetes the Pythagorean)
Page 386, “Ithageses” changed to “Ithagenes” (a Samian, and the son of Ithagenes)
Page 386, “Telentagoras” changed to “Teleutagoras” (he was by nature the son of Teleutagoras)
Page 396, “Artmography” changed to “Actinography” (Actinography, or a discussion on Rays of Light)
Page 389, “resistence” changed to “resistance” (according to the resistance of the centre)
Page 396, “Rythm” changed to “Rhythm” (A treatise on Rhythm and Harmony)
Page 397, “Prodicas” changed to “Prodicus” twice (He, and Prodicus of Ceos / Prodicus had a very powerful voice)
Page 398, “Allidomas” changed to “Alcidamas” (but Alcidamas says that)
Page 405, “Memenius” changed to “Numenius” (Numenius is the only writer who asserts)
Page 405, “Epianus” changed to “Epicurus” (was the master of Epicurus)
Page 407, “antethetical” changed to “antithetical” (antithetical force of words)
Page 409, “Phyrrho” changed to “Pyrrho” (Pyrrho lays down in the following manner)
Page 414, “iotellect” changed to “intellect” (either sense or intellect)
Page 414, “dawn” changed to “down” (those opinions which are laid down previously)
Page 422, “Cercipes” changed to “Cercopes” (through the forum of the Cercopes)
Page 423, “Nilolochus” changed to “Nicolochus” (Nicolochus of Rhodes)
Page 423, “Pracylus” changed to “Praylus” (Praylus of the Troas)
Page 423, “Xeuxippus” changed to “Zeuxippus” (Zeuxippus Polites)
Page 423, “Gonicpus” changed to “Goniopus” (Zeuxis Goniopus)
Page 423, “Theodos” changed to “Theodas” (Theodas, of Laodicea)
Page 424, “had Colonis and” changed to “had colonised” (as the Athenians had colonised Samos)
Page 425, “Inus” changed to “Mus” (a slave, whose name was Mus)
Page 425, repeated word “as” removed (well as one of his brothers)
Page 425, “Leontius” changed to “Leonteus” (Themista, the wife of Leonteus)
Page 426, “Marmaricem” changed to “Marmarium” (and among them Marmarium)
Page 427, “nicnamed Lerocrates” changed to “nicknamed Lerocritus” (Democritus, he nicknamed Lerocritus)
Page 427, “friend” changed to “friends” (his friends who were so numerous)
Page 427, “Inus” changed to “Mus” (the one whom I have mentioned already, named Mus)
Page 428, “his” changed to “is” (among whom is Apollodorus)
Page 430, “sucessors” changed to “successors” (my immediate successors hand it down)
Page 431, “Inus” changed to “Mus” (Of my slaves, I hereby emancipate Mus)
Page 432, “Bates” changed to “Batis” (he gave his sister Batis in marriage)
Page 432, “Leontius” changed to “Leonteus” (There was also Leonteus, of Lampsacus)
Page 433, “Chæridemus” changed to “Chæredemus” (the Chæredemus, a treatise on the Gods)
Page 433, “Hegesiana” changed to “Hegesianax” (the Hegesianax; four essays on Lives)
Footnote 8, “diety” changed to “deity” (the national deity of the Ionians)
Footnote 31, “μιμογράφον” changed to “μιμογράφου” (The Greek is τοῦ μιμογράφου.)
Footnote 31, “μῖμιοι” changed to “μῖμοι” (μῖμοι σπουδαίων)
Footnote 80, “Euripid” changed to “Euripides” (the Antiope of Euripides)
Footnote 82, “adversariese” changed to “adversaries” (knocked down his adversaries)
Footnote 108, missing word “of” added (which Ovid puts into the mouth of Pythagoras); “Jononis” changed to “Junonis” (templo Junonis in Argis)
Footnote 119, “Linæan” changed to “Lenæan” (the second or Lenæan festivals)
Footnote 143, “Trachinæ” changed to “Trachiniæ” (the Trachiniæ of Sophocles)
Index entry, “Arnicereans” changed to “Annicereans” and moved to the correct alphabetical position
Greek ς, when not at the end of a word, has been normalised to σ. Punctuation and accents have been amended without note as have æ/œ ligature substitutions. Where there was any doubt the text is left as printed; any remaining errors are as they appeared in the original.
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