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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[58] Zaratas is another form of the name Zoroaster.
[59] Or, “is a nature according to musical harmony” (preceding note); or, “The cosmical system is nature and a musical harmony.”
[60] Zaratas, or Zoroaster, is employed as a sort of generic denomination for philosopher by the Orientals, who, whatever portions of Asia they inhabit, mostly ascribe their speculative systems to a Zoroaster. No less than six individuals bearing this name are spoken of. Arnobius (Contr. Gentes., i. 52) mentions four—(1) a Chaldean, (2) Bactrian, (3) Pamphylian, (4) Armenian. Pliny mentions a fifth as a native of Proconnesus ( Nat. Hist.., xxx. 1), while Apuleius (Florida, ii. 15) a sixth Zoroaster, a native of Babylon, and contemporary with Pythagoras, the one evidently alluded to by Hippolytus. (See translator’s Treatise on Metaphysics, chap. ii.)
[61] Or, “that it was hot and cold,” or “hot of moist.”
[62] Or it might be rendered, “a process of arrangement.” The Abbe Cruice (in his edition of Hippolytus, Paris, 1860) suggests a different reading, which would make the words translate thus, “when the earth was an undigested and solid mass.”
[63] [See book vi. cap. xxii., infra, and note. But Clement gives another explanation. See vol. ii. p. 385, this series.]
[64] Or, “Zametus.”
[65] Or, “leading them down into cells, made them,” etc.; or, “made his disciples observe silence,” etc.
Chapter III.—Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration.
[66] Or, “and beast,” more in keeping with the sense of the name; or “a lamb” has been suggested in the Gottingen edition of Hippolytus.
[67] Or, “traveller into the sea;” or, “mute ones from the sea;” or, “from the sea a glittering fish.”
[68] Or, “being the instructor of this (philosopher).”
Chapter IV.—Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other Systems.
[69] Proclus, in his commentary on Plato’s Timæus, uses almost the same words: “but Heraclitus, in asserting his own universal knowledge, makes out all the rest of mankind ignorant.”
[70] Or, “and among these, Socrates a moral philosopher, and Aristotle a logician, originated systems.”
Chapter V.—Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His Physics.
[71] Or, “men.”
[72] Or, “moist.”
[73] Or, “congealed snow.”
[74] That is, Antipodes. Diogenes Laertius was of the opinion that Plato first indicated by name the Antipodes.
[75] Or, “727 times,” an improbable reading.
[76] “In moisture” is properly added, as Plutarch, in his De Placitis, v. xix., remarks that “Anaximander affirms that primary animals were produced in moisture.”
[77] This word seems requisite to the sense of the passage.
[78] b.c. 610. On Olympiads, see Jarvis, Introd., p. 21.]
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