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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[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.]
[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.]
[99] [Incredible. Cyrus the younger, fell at Cunaxa b.c. 401. Cyrus the elder was a contemporary of Xenophanes.]
[100] Or, “anchovy.”
[101] Or,“ Melitus.”
[102] The textual reading is in the present, but obviously requires a past tense.
Chapter XIII.—Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.
[103] Some confusion has crept into the text. The first clause of the second sentence belongs probably to the first. The sense would then run thus: “Ecphantus affirmed the impossibility of dogmatic truth, for that every one was permitted to frame definitions as he thought proper.”
[104] Or, “that there is, according to this, a multitude of defined existences, and that such is infinite.”
[105] Or, “a single power.”
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