 […] Eudemus bears witness to this when he says: ‘Someone might be amazed at Parmenides for following these untrustworthy arguments and being deceived by things of this kind, but these matters had not yet then been clarified. For neither did anyone refer to “[being spoken of] in many ways” but Plato was the first to introduce “in two ways”, nor [did anyone speak of] the “in itself” or “the accidental”; and it seems that he [i.e., Parmenides] was indeed misled by these points. These have been studied through the arguments and counter arguments, and the syllogistic &lt;figure&gt;. For there was no agreement unless it was seen to be necessary. But our predecessors made claims without proof. (Simplicius, In Phys. 120.6–12, translated by P. Huby and C. C. W. Taylor)