The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their worksFairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy
The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their works
Fairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy, Ancient
[2] In references to Simpl. in Arist. _de Anima_ and _Physica_, the first
numbers give folio and line, the second, page (and line) in the edition
published by the Berlin Academy.
[3] Cf. Plato, _Theaet._ 174 A; Diog. Laer. i. 34.
[4] Epiphan. iii. 1; _Dox._ 589; Herm. _I. G. P._ 10; _Dox._ 653.
[5] The fragment is discussed at length by Ziegler, _Archiv f. d. Gesch.
d. Philos._ i. (1883) p. 16 ff.
[6] Cf. Theophrastos (_Dox._ 478) under Anaxagoras, _infra_.
[7] Cf. Theophrastos, _Dox._ 494, _infra_, p. 12.
[8] _Archiv f. d. Geschichte d. Phil._ i. p. 16 sqq.
[9] Aet. iii. 16; _Dox._ 381.
[10] Aet. iii. 10; _Dox._ 376. Cf. Plut. _Strom._ 2; _Dox._ 579.
[11] κύκλος, the circle or wheel in which the stars are set, and in which
they revolve. The circle of the moon is farther from the earth, and last
comes the circle of the sun.
[12] Cf. Aet. ii. 15-25, _infra_.
[13] Aet. iii. 6; _Dox._ 374.
[14] Cf. Aet. iii. 3; _Dox._ 367.
[15] Epiphan. iii. 2; _Dox._ 589.
[16] _Rhein. Mus._ xxxi. 27.
[17] For a discussion of the above fragment, v. _Archiv f. d. Geschichte
d. Phil._ i. 315.
[18] Cf. Arist. _Phys._ i. 4; and _de Coelo_ iii. 5.
[19] V. Epiph. _adv. Haer._ iii. 3; _Dox._ 589.
[20] Aet. iii. 15; _Dox._ 380.
[21] Aet. ii. 13; 342; ii. 20; 348; ii. 25; 356.
[22] Aet. ii. 22; 352.
[23] Aet. ii. 13; 342.
[24] Aet. ii. 16; 346.
[25] Aet. iii. 4; 370.
[26] Aet. iii. 3; 368.
[27] Aet. iii. 5; 373,
[28] Cf. Aet. iii. 15; 379 _infra_ and Arist. _Meteor._ ii. 7, _supra_.
[29] Aet. i. 7; 302.
[30] I keep Bywater’s numbers, though I omit some of his fragments. Such
omissions are referred to in the critical notes.
[31] Cf. Galen. _Hist. Phil._ 64; _Dox._ 626.
[32] The text follows in the main the edition of Bergk-Hiller, _Poet.
Lyr. Graec._, Leipzig, 1890.
[33] Zeller, _Vorsokratische Philosophie_, p. 530, n. 3.
[34] Zeller, 526, n. 1. No author is given in the context; Karsten
follows Fabricius in accrediting it to Xenophanes.
[35] Zeller, 524, n. 2. Cf. Arist. _Rhet._ ii. 23; 1399 b 6.
[36] Zeller, 525, n. 2. Diog. Laer. iii. 16; Cic. _de nat. Deor._ i. 27.
[37] Zeller, 525, n. 3. Cf. Diog. Laer. ix. 18; Sext. Emp. _Pyrrh._ i.
224.
[38] Cf. Stob. _Ecl. Phys._ ii. 282, ἐκ πυρὸς γὰρ τὰ πάντα καὶ εἰς πῦρ τὰ
πάντα τελευτᾷ, which Karsten does not assign to Xenophanes.
[39] Zeller, 541, n. 1. Cf. Sext. Emp. _Pyrrh._ ii. 30.
[40] Cf. Arist. _de Coelo_ ii. 13; 294 a 21.
[41] Zeller, 549, n. 2. Burnett, ‘All are free to guess.’
[42] Bergk⁴ interprets φροντίδα by _carmen_.
[43] Hiller, _Deut. Litt. Zeitg._, 1886, Coll. 474-475, suggests ‘(Men
know the wanderings of Odysseus) from the beginning as Homer tells them,
since all have learned them.’
[44] Cf. Plutarch, _Amat._ p. 763 D; _Is. et Os._ p. 379 B.
[45] Cf. Theod. _Graec. Aff. Cur._ iii. p. 49.
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