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BOHN’S CLASSICAL LIBRARY

DIOGENES LAËRTIUS




    G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.

    LONDON: PORTUGAL ST., KINGSWAY
    CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO.
    NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
    BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER AND CO.




                        THE LIVES AND OPINIONS OF
                          EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS

                                   BY
                           DIOGENES LAËRTIUS.

                          LITERALLY TRANSLATED
                          BY C. D. YONGE, M.A.,
               _Fellow of the Royal University of London;
            Regius Professor of English Literature and Modern
                   History, Queen’s College, Belfast._

                             [Illustration]

                                 LONDON
                          G. BELL AND SONS, LTD
                                  1915

                  [_Reprinted from Stereotype plates._]




CONTENTS.


                                    PAGE.

    PREFACE                            1

                BOOK I.

    INTRODUCTION                       3
    THALES                            14
    SOLON                             23
    CHILO                             32
    PITTACUS                          35
    BIAS                              38
    CLEOBULUS                         41
    PERIANDER                         43
    ANACHARSIS, THE SCYTHIAN          46
    MYSON                             49
    EPIMENIDES                        50
    PHERECYDES                        53

               BOOK II.

    ANAXIMANDER                       57
    ANAXIMENES                        57
    ARCHELAUS                         62
    SOCRATES                          63
    XENOPHON                          75
    ÆSCHINES                          79
    ARISTIPPUS                        81
    PHÆDO                             96
    EUCLIDES                          97
    STILPO                           100
    CRITO                            103
    SIMON                            104
    GLAUCO                           104
    SIMIAS                           105
    CEBES                            105
    MENEDEMUS                        105

               BOOK III.

    PLATO                            113

               BOOK IV.

    SPEUSIPPUS                       152
    XENOCRATES                       154
    POLEMO                           158
    CRATES                           160
    CRANTOR                          161
    ARCESILAUS                       163
    BION                             171
    LACYDES                          176
    CARNEADES                        177
    CLITOMACHUS                      178

                BOOK V.

    ARISTOTLE                        181
    THEOPHRASTUS                     194
    STRATO                           202
    LYCON                            205
    DEMETRIUS                        209
    HERACLIDES                       213

               BOOK VI.

    ANTISTHENES                      217
    DIOGENES                         224
    MONIMUS                          248
    ONESICRITUS                      249
    CRATES                           249
    METROCLES                        253
    HIPPARCHIA                       254
    MENIPPUS                         256
    MENEDEMUS                        257

               BOOK VII.

    ZENO                             259
    ARISTON                          318
    HERILLUS                         320
    DIONYSIUS                        321
    CLEANTHES                        322
    SPHÆRUS                          326
    CHRYSIPPUS                       327

              BOOK VIII.

    PYTHAGORAS                       338
    EMPEDOCLES                       359
    EPICHARMUS                       368
    ARCHYTAS                         369
    ALCMÆON                          371
    HIPPASUS                         371
    PHILOLAUS                        372
    EUDOXUS                          372

               BOOK IX.

   