[Footnote 80: Ἐπικλιθῆναι, _de super incumbere_, Cr., “inclined at an angle,” Macmahon. Evidently Archelaus imagined a concave heaven fitting over the earth like a dish cover or an upturned boat or coracle. This was the Babylonian theory. Cf. Maspero, _Hist. anc^{nne} de l’Orient classique_, Paris, 1895, I, p. 543, and illustration. Many of the Ionian ideas about physics doubtless come from the same source.] [Footnote 81: Reading, as Cruice suggests, καὶ ἀνθρώπους for καὶ ἀνόμοια. So Diog. Laert., II, _vit. Archel._, c. 17.] [Footnote 82: χρήσασθαι, _uti_, Cr., “employed,” Macmahon.] [Footnote 83: A fair specimen of Hippolytus’ verbose and inflated style.] [Footnote 84: No other philosopher has yet been quoted as saying that the earth was spherical.] [Footnote 85: This sentence is said to have been interpolated.] [Footnote 86: ἐκ τοῦ περιέχοντος, “from the surrounding (æther).” An expression much used by writers on astrology and generally translated “ambient.”] [Footnote 87: Diog. Laert., IX, _vit. Dem._, c. 1, says either Damasippus or Hegesistratus or Athenocritus.] [Footnote 88: It is doubtful whether astrology was known in Egypt before the Alexandrian age. Diog. Laert., _vit. cit._, quotes from Antisthenes that Democritus studied mathematics there, and astrology was looked on by the Romans as a branch of mathematics. Cf. Sextus Empiricus, _ubi cit., supra_.] [Footnote 89: καὶ τῇ μὲν γένεσθαι, τῇ δὲ ἐκλείπειν.] [Footnote 90: So Apollodorus. Diog. Laert., IX, _vit. Xenophan._, c. 1, says of Dexius.] [Footnote 91: Diog. Laert., _ubi cit._, says Sotion of Alexandria is the authority for this, but that he was mistaken. Hippolytus says later in Book I (p. 59 _infra_) that Pyrrho was the first to assert the incomprehensibility of everything. If, as Sotion asserted, Xenophanes was a contemporary of Anaximander, he must have died two centuries before Pyrrho was born.] [Footnote 92: δόκος δ’ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τέτυκται, _sed in omnibus opinio est_, Cr. Yet δόκος is surely a “guess.”] [Footnote 93: αἰσθητικός.] [Footnote 94: ἐν τῷ βάθει τοῦ λίθου, “deep down in the stone.” Perhaps the earliest mention of fossils.] [Footnote 95: Is this a survival of the Babylonian legends of the Flood?] [Footnote 96: παραλλαγγάς, _differentias_, Cr. Perhaps “alternations.”] [Footnote 97: The whole of this section on Ecphantus is corrupt. He is not alluded to again in the book.] [Footnote 98: Hippo is mentioned by Iamblichus in his life of Pythagoras.] [Footnote 99: ἀπομαξάμενος, “been sealed with,” or “copied.” Cf. Diog. Laert., II, _vit._ _Socrates_, c. 12.] [Footnote 100: προνοούμενον αὐτοῦ. The τόδε τὸ πᾶν of the line above shows that Plato did not mean that the forethought extended to other worlds than this.]