Plato refers to the saying πάντα πλήρη θεῶν in _Laws_, 899 b 9 (R. P. 14 b), without mentioning Thales. That ascribed to Herakleitos in the _de part. An._ Α, 5. 645 a 17 seems to be a mere variation on it. So in Diog. ix. 7 (R. P. 46 d) Herakleitos is credited with the saying πάντα ψυχῶν εἶναι κα δαιμόνων πλήρη. Footnote 92: Bäumker, _Das Problem der Materie_, p. 10, n. 1. II. ANAXIMANDER [Sidenote: Life.] 12. The next name that has come down to us is that of Anaximander, son of Praxiades. He too was a citizen of Miletos, and Theophrastos described him as an “associate” of Thales.[93] We have seen how that expression is to be understood (§ XIV.). According to Apollodoros, Anaximander was sixty-four years old in Ol. LVIII. 2 (547/6 B.C.); and this is confirmed by Hippolytos, who says he was born in Ol. XLII. 3 (610/9 B.C.), and by Pliny, who assigns his discovery of the obliquity of the zodiac to the same Olympiad.[94] We seem to have here something more than a mere combination of the ordinary type; for, according to all the rules of Alexandrian chronology, Anaximander should have “flourished” in 565 B.C., that is, just half-way between Thales and Anaximenes, and this would make him sixty, not sixty-four, in 546. Now Apollodoros appears to have said that he had met with the work of Anaximander; and his reason for mentioning this must be that he found in it some indication which enabled him to fix its date without having recourse to conjecture. Diels suggests that Anaximander may have given his age at the time of writing as sixty-four, and that the book may have contained some other statement showing it to have been published in 547/6 B.C.[95] Perhaps, however, this hardly does justice to the fact that the year given is just that which preceded the fall of Sardeis and the subjugation of the Lydian empire by the Persians. It may be a more plausible conjecture that Anaximander, writing some years later, incidentally mentioned what his age had been at the time of that great crisis. We know from Xenophanes that the question, “How old were you when the Mede appeared?” was considered an interesting one in those days.[96] At all events, we seem to be justified in believing that Anaximander was a generation younger than Thales. When he died we do not really know.[97] Footnote 93: R. P. 15 d. That the words πολίτης καὶ ἑταῖρος, given by Simplicius, _de Caelo_, p. 615, 13, are the original words of Theophrastos is shown by the agreement of Cic. _Acad._ ii. 118, _popularis et sodalis_. The two passages represent quite independent branches of the tradition. See Appendix, §§ 7, 12. Footnote 94: Diog. ii. 2 (R. P. 15); Hipp. _Ref._ i. 6 (_Dox._ p. 560); Plin. _N.H._ ii. 31. Pliny’s dates come from Apollodoros through Nepos. Footnote 95: _Rhein. Mus._ xxxi. p. 24. Footnote 96: