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BOHN’S CLASSICAL LIBRARY

DIOGENES LAËRTIUS




    G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.

    LONDON: PORTUGAL ST., KINGSWAY
    CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL AND 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
    EP