Hippolytus

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^[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.]

Chapter VI.—Anaximenes; His System of “An Infinite Air;” His Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena.

^[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.]

Chapter VII.—Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His Cosmogony and Astronomy.

^[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.”

^[86] Or, “overpowered by the sun,” that is, whose light was lost in the superior brilliancy of the sun.

^[87] Or, “were generated.”

^[88] [Died b.c. 428 or 429.]

Chapter VIII.—Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth and of Animals; Other Systems.

^[89] [b.c. 440.]

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