_Thales of Miletus_, the first of the great mathematicians and physical philosophers of Greece: one of the seven sages. He flourished towards the end of the seventh century B.C. CHAPTER 19. _Asclepiades_, a famous physician from Bithynia, of the first half of the first century B.C. CHAPTER 20. _The first cup_, &c. The wise author of this saying was, according to Diog. Laert, i. 72, Anacharsis. _Empedocles._ See note on Apologia, chap. 27. _Epicharmus_, a famous comic poet of Megara in Sicily. He flourished early in the fifth century B.C. _Xenocrates._ Diog. Laert. mentions five writers of this name, none of them of any great importance. It is possible that we should read _Xenophanes_, who, according to Diog. Laert. ix. 10, wrote _silli_, a form of lampoon or satire. He was the founder of the Eleatic school and probably flourished about 500 B.C. CHAPTER 22. _Crates pure and simple_, i.e. by his renunciation of the world described in chap. 15. CHAPTER 24. The MSS. give this as a prologue to the de deo Socratis. It belongs, however, manifestly to the Florida. _Aristippus_, founder of the Cyrenaic school, a friend and younger contemporary of Socrates. * * * * * OXFORD PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, M.A. PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY