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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[91] There is some confusion in the text here, but the rendering given above, though conjectural, is highly probable. One proposed emendation would make the passage run thus: “for that each body employed mind, sometimes slower, sometimes faster.”
Chapter IX.—Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His Eschatology.
[92] [b.c. 500.]
[93] The next sentence is regarded by some as not genuine.
Chapter X.—Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.
[94] [b.c. 370.]
[95] Or, “when again mutually connected, that different entities were generated.” (See Diogenes Laertius’ Lives, ix. 30–32.)
Chapter XI.—Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony.
[96] [Died in his hundred and ninth year, b.c. 361.]
[97] Or, “Audera.”
Chapter XII.—Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood.
[98] [Born 556 b.c.]
[99] [Incredible. Cyrus the younger, fell at Cunaxa b.c. 401. Cyrus the elder was a contemporary of Xenophanes.]
[100] Or, “anchovy.”
[101] Or,“ Melitus.”
[102] The textual reading is in the present, but obviously requires a past tense.
Chapter XIII.—Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.
[103] Some confusion has crept into the text. The first clause of the second sentence belongs probably to the first. The sense would then run thus: “Ecphantus affirmed the impossibility of dogmatic truth, for that every one was permitted to frame definitions as he thought proper.”
[104] Or, “that there is, according to this, a multitude of defined existences, and that such is infinite.”
[105] Or, “a single power.”
[106] [So far anticipating modern science.]
Chapter XIV.—Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology.
[107] Or, “holds.”
Chapter XV.—Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.
[108] Or, “writing.” Still Socrates may be called the father of the Greek philosophy. “From the age of Aristotle and Plato, the rise of the several Greek sects may be estimated as so many successful or abortive efforts to carry out the principles enunciated by Socrates.”—Translator’s Treatise on Metaphysics, chap. iii. p. 45.
[109] This word signifies to take impressions from anything, which justifies the translation, historically correct, given above. Its literal import is “wipe clean,” and in this sense Hippolytus may intend to assert that Plato wholly appropriated the philosophy of Socrates. (See Diogenes Laertius, xi. 61, where the same word occurs.)
[110] De Legibus, iv. 7 (p. 109, vol. viii. ed. Bekker).
[111] Timæus, c. xvi. (p. 277, vol. vii. ed. Bekker). The passage runs thus in the original: “Gods of gods, of whom I am Creator and Father of works, which having been formed by Me, are indissoluble, through, at all events, My will.”
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