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[Footnote 138: Zeno and Cleanthes both accepted the ecpyrosis. See
Diog. Laert., _ubi cit._, c. 70. The same author says that Panætius
said that the cosmos was imperishable.]
[Footnote 139: σῶμα διὰ σώματος μὲν χωρεῖν, _corpusque per corpus
migrare_, Cr. Macmahon inserts a “not” in the sentence, but without
authority. The Stoic resurrection assumed that in the new world created
out of the ashes of the old, individuals would take the same place as
in this last. See Arnold, _op. cit._, p. 193 for authorities.]
[Footnote 140: ἀτόμοι, “that cannot be cut.” The rest of this sentence
is taken from Diog. Laert., X, _vit. Epicur._, c. 24, and is quoted
there from Epicurus’ treatise on Nature.]
[Footnote 141: With the exception of the Deity’s seat in the
intercosmic spaces and the idea that the souls of men consist of blood,
all the above opinions of Epicurus are to be found in Diog. Laert., X,
_vit. Epic._]
[Footnote 142: οὐ μᾶλλον, “not rather.”]
[Footnote 143: See n. on p. 49 _supra_. The doctrines here given are
those of the Sceptics, and are to be found in Diog. Laert., IX, _vit.
Pyrrho_, c. 79 ff. and in Sextus Empiricus, _Hyp. Pyrrho_, I, 209 ff.
Diog. Laert. quotes from Ascanius of Abdera that Pyrrho introduced the
dogma of incomprehensibility, and Hippolytus seems to have copied this
without noticing that he has said the same thing about Xenophanes.]
[Footnote 144: Diog. Laert., I, _Prooem._, c. 1, mentions both
Gymnosophists and Druids, but if he ever gave any account of their
teaching it must be in the part of the book which is lost. Clem. Alex.,
_Stromateis_, I, c. 15, describes the two classes of Gymnosophists
as Sarmanæ and Brachmans. The Sarmanæ or Samanæi (Shamans?) seem the
nearer of the two to the Brachmans of our text.]
[Footnote 145: ἀκροδρύοι, hard-shelled fruit such as acorns or
chestnuts.]
[Footnote 146: Roeper suggests the Ganges.]
[Footnote 147: Megasthenes, for whom see Strabo V, 712, differs from
Hippolytus in making the abstinence of the Gymnosophists endure for
thirty-seven years only.]
[Footnote 148: Nothing has yet been said about any bank.]
[Footnote 149: The whole of this sentence is corrupt. Macmahon
following Roeper would read: “This discourse whom they name God they
affirm to be incorporeal, but enveloped in a body outside himself, just
as if one carried a covering of sheepskin to have it seen; but having
stripped off the body in which he is enveloped, he no longer appears
visibly to the naked eye.”]
[Footnote 150: ἐγείρας τρόπαιον, lit., “raised a trophy.”]
[Footnote 151: θεολογοῦσι. Eusebius, _Præp. Ev._, uses the word in this
sense. For the Dandamis and Calanus stories, see Arrian, _Anabasis_,
Bk. VII, cc. 2, 3.]