Diog. ii. 7 (R. P. 148), with the perfectly certain emendation referred to _ib._ 148 c. The Athens of 480 B.C. would hardly be a suitable place to “begin philosophising”! For the variation in the archon’s name, see Jacoby, p. 244, n. 1. Footnote 648: We must read ὀγδοηκοστῆς with Meursius to make the figures come right. Footnote 649: On the statements of Apollodoros, see Jacoby, pp. 244 sqq. Footnote 650: Diog., _loc. cit._ In any case, it is not a mere calculation of Apollodoros’s; for he would certainly have made Anaxagoras forty years old at the date of his arrival in Athens, and this would give _at most_ twenty-eight years for his residence there. The trial cannot have been later than 432 B.C., and may have been earlier. There can be no doubt that these dates are very nearly right. Aristotle tells us[651] that Anaxagoras was older than Empedokles, who was born about 490 B.C. (§ 98); and Theophrastos said[652] that Empedokles was born “not long after Anaxagoras.” Demokritos, too, said that he himself was a young man in the old age of Anaxagoras, and he must have been born about 460 B.C.[653] Footnote 651: Arist. Met. Α, 3. 984 a 11 (R. P. 150 a). Footnote 652: _Phys. Op._ fr. 3 (_Dox._ p. 477), _ap._ Simpl. _Phys._ p. 25, 19 (R. P. 162 e). Footnote 653: Diog. ix. 41 (R. P. 187). On the date of Demokritos, see Chap. IX. § 171. [Sidenote: Early life.] 121. Anaxagoras was born at Klazomenai, and Theophrastos tells us that his father’s name was Hegesiboulos.[654] The names of both father and son have an aristocratic sound, and we may assume they belonged to a family which had won distinction in the State. Nor need we reject the tradition that Anaxagoras neglected his possessions to follow science.[655] It is certain, at any rate, that in the fourth century he was already regarded as the type of the man who leads the “theoretic life.”[656] Of course the story of his contempt for worldly goods was seized on later by the historical novelist and tricked out with the usual apophthegms. These do not concern us here. Footnote 654: _Phys. Op._ fr. 4 (_Dox._ p. 478), repeated by the doxographers. Footnote 655: Plato, _Hipp. ma._ 283 a, τοὐναντίον γὰρ Ἀναξαγόρᾳ φασὶ συμβῆναι ἢ ὑμῖν· καταλειφθέντων γὰρ αὐτῷ παλλῶν χρημάτων καταμελῆσαι καὶ ἀπολέσαι πάντα· οὕτως αὐτὸν ἀνόητα σοφίζεσθαι. Cf. Plut. _Per._ 16. Footnote 656: Arist. _Eth. Nic._ Κ, 9. 1179 a 13. Cf. _Eth. Eud._ Α, 4. 1215 b 6 and 15, 1216 a 10.