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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.
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                        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
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