Hippolytus

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^[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.]

^[90] Or, “both many of the rest of the animal kingdom, and man himself.” (See Diogenes Laertius’ Lives, ii. 17.)

^[91] There is some confusion in the text here, but the rendering given above, though conjectural, is highly probable. One proposed emendation would make the passage run thus: “for that each body employed mind, sometimes slower, sometimes faster.”

Chapter IX.—Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His Eschatology.

^[92] [b.c. 500.]

^[93] The next sentence is regarded by some as not genuine.

Chapter X.—Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.

^[94] [b.c. 370.]

^[95] Or, “when again mutually connected, that different entities were generated.” (See Diogenes Laertius’ Lives, ix. 30–32.)

Chapter XI.—Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony.

^[96] [Died in his hundred and ninth year, b.c. 361.]

^[97] Or, “Audera.”

Chapter XII.—Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood.

^[98] [Born 556 b.c.]

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