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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[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.]
[82] Aristotle considers that Anaxagoras was the first to broach the existence of efficient causes in nature. He states, however, that Hermotimus received the credit of so doing at an earlier date.
[83] Or, Hegesephontus.
[84] Simplicius, in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, where (book i. c. 2) Anaxagoras is spoken of, says that the latter maintained that “all things existed simultaneously—infinite things, and plurality, and diminutiveness, for even what was diminutive was infinite.” (See Aristotle’s Metaphysics, iii. 4, Macmahon’s translation, p. 93.) This explains Hippolytus’ remark, while it suggests an emendation of the text.
[85] Or, “in the Antipodes;” or, “from the snow in Æthiopia.”
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