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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[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).
[121] The text, as given by Miller, is scarcely capable of any meaning. The translation is therefore conjectural, in accordance with alterations proposed by Schneidewin.
[122] Or, “declares.”
[123] Or, “the fifth body, in which it is supposed to be, along with the other four (elements);” or, “the fifth body, which is supposed to be (composed) of the other four.”
[124] Hippolytus expresses himself in the words of Stobæus, who says (Eclog., ii. 274): “And among reputed external blessings are nobility, wealth, glory, peace, freedom, friendship.”
[125] Or, “glory, the confirmed power of friends.”
Chapter XVIII.—The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of Conflagrations.
[126] One of the mss. elucidates the simile in the text thus: “But if he is not disposed, there is absolutely a necessity for his being drawn along. And in like manner men, if they do not follow fate, seem to be free agents, though the reason of (their being) fate holds assuredly valid. If, however, they do not wish to follow, they will absolutely be coerced to enter upon what has been fore-ordained.”
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