BOHN’S CLASSICAL LIBRARY DIOGENES LAËRTIUS G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. LONDON: PORTUGAL ST., KINGSWAY CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER AND CO. THE LIVES AND OPINIONS OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS BY DIOGENES LAËRTIUS. LITERALLY TRANSLATED BY C. D. YONGE, M.A., _Fellow of the Royal University of London; Regius Professor of English Literature and Modern History, Queen’s College, Belfast._ [Illustration] LONDON G. BELL AND SONS, LTD 1915 [_Reprinted from Stereotype plates._] CONTENTS. PAGE. PREFACE 1 BOOK I. INTRODUCTION 3 THALES 14 SOLON 23 CHILO 32 PITTACUS 35 BIAS 38 CLEOBULUS 41 PERIANDER 43 ANACHARSIS, THE SCYTHIAN 46 MYSON 49 EPIMENIDES 50 PHERECYDES 53 BOOK II. ANAXIMANDER 57 ANAXIMENES 57 ARCHELAUS 62 SOCRATES 63 XENOPHON 75 ÆSCHINES 79 ARISTIPPUS 81 PHÆDO 96 EUCLIDES 97 STILPO 100 CRITO 103 SIMON 104 GLAUCO 104 SIMIAS 105 CEBES 105 MENEDEMUS 105 BOOK III. PLATO 113 BOOK IV. SPEUSIPPUS 152 XENOCRATES 154 POLEMO 158 CRATES 160 CRANTOR 161 ARCESILAUS 163 BION 171 LACYDES 176 CARNEADES 177 CLITOMACHUS 178 BOOK V. ARISTOTLE 181 THEOPHRASTUS 194 STRATO 202 LYCON 205 DEMETRIUS 209 HERACLIDES 213