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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[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.]
[79] Or, “revolutionary motion.”
[80] Plutarch, in his De Placitis Philosophorum, attributes both opinions to Anaximenes, viz., that the sun was moved both under and around the earth.
[81] [b.c. 556.]
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