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Book 6 Minor Writers
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Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[1196] μαθήματα.
[1197] τὸ ἐπιστημονικόν.
[1198] μάθησιν.
[1199] εἰλικρινῆ, absolute.
[1200] ὕλην.
[1201] νοητήν.
[1202] θεωρητικός.
[1203] τοὺς πρὸς ἄλληλα λόγους.
[1204] σώματα, substances.
[1205] ἐπιστήμη θεωρητική.
[1206] πρὸς τὴν τῶν ὑποπιπτόντων δόσιν.
[1207] Iliad, iv. 442–443 (Pope).
[1208] σημείου καὶ γραμμῆς.
[1209] τὸ ἀρχιτεκτονικόν.
[1210] ἀναλογίας.
[1211] ἀρχάς, beginnings.
[1212] περιπέτεια, reversal of circumstances on which the plot of a tragedy hinges.
[1213] A native of Abdera, in Thrace, born about 460 b.c., and, along with Leucippus, the founder of the philosophical theory of atoms, according to which the creation of all things was explained as being due to the fortuitous combination of an infinite number of atoms floating in infinite space.
[1214] A famous physician, a native of Bithynia, but long resident in great repute at Rome in the middle of the first century b.c. He adopted the Epicurean doctrine of atoms and pores, and tried to form a new theory of disease, on the principle that it might be in all cases reduced to obstruction of the pores and irregular distribution of the atoms.
[1215] ὄγκοις.
[1216] [Wisdom 11.20; Ecclesiasticus 38.29; 42.7.]
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