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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[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.”
[112] The word is literally a cup or bowl, and, being employed by Plato in an allegorical sense, is evidently intended to signify the anima mundi (soul of the world), which constituted a sort of depository for all spiritual existences in the world.
[113] Or, “that there exists a necessity for the corruption of everything created.”
[114] Or, “are confirmed by that (philosopher Plato), because he asserts,” etc.; or, “those who assert the soul’s immortality are especially confirmed in their opinion, as many as affirm the existence of a future state of retribution.”
[115] Or, “that he changes different souls,” etc.
[116] Or, “during.”
[117] Diogenes Laertius, in describing the system of the Stoics, employs the same word in the case of their view of virtue.
[118] This is supplied from the original; the passage occurs in the Phædrus, c. lx. (p. 86, vol. i. ed. Bekker).
[119] The word Adrasteia was a name for Nemesis, and means here unalterable destiny.
[120] The passage occurs in Clilophon (p. 244, vol. vi. ed. Bekker).
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