![]() ![]() It is suggested that this sentence also is an insertion by Diogenes, which interrupts the real sequence of the narrative. Note inserted by Diogenes Laertius from a different author. Proposed to emend the next sentence by bracketing the words Next he proceeded to Cyrene on a visit to Theodorus the mathematician, thence to Italy to see the Pythagorean philosophers Philolaus and Eurytus, and thence to Egypt to see Then at the age of twenty-eight, according to Hermodorus, he withdrew to Megara to Euclides, with certain other disciples of Socrates. When Socrates was gone, he attached himself to Cratylus the Heraclitean, and to Hermogenes who professed the philosophy of Parmenides. dįrom that time onward, having reached his twentieth year (so it is said), he was the pupil of Socrates. Afterwards, when he was about to compete for the prize with a tragedy, he listened to Socrates in front of the theatre of Dionysus, b and then consigned his poems to the flames, with the words c:Ĭome hither, O fire-god, Plato now has need of thee. aĪt first he used to study philosophy in the Academy, and afterwards in the garden at Colonus (as Alexander states in his Successions of Philosophers), as a follower of Heraclitus. And the next day Plato was introduced as a pupil, and thereupon he recognized in him the swan of his dream. When Diogenes begged a coat of him, he bade him fold his cloak around him double. Some one having called upon him over the wine for a song, he replied, Then you must accompany me on the pipe. It is stated that Socrates in a dream saw a cygnet on his knees, which all at once put forth plumage, and flew away after uttering a loud sweet note. When he was asked what advantage had accrued to him from philosophy, his answer was, The ability to hold converse with myself. He had, they say, a weak voice this is confirmed by Timotheus the Athenian in his book On Lives. 5.That he applied himself to painting and wrote poems, first dithyrambs, afterwards lyric poems and tragedies.Kroll, Real-Encyklopädie derĬlassischen Altertumswissenschaft, Berlin, 1894 et seqq.: art. Düring, Aristotle in the Ancient Biographical Tradition, Göteborg, 1957, pp. Wehrli, Die Schule des Aristoteles, Basel, 1944 et von der Mühll, Epicuri epistulae tres et ratae sententiae, Delatte, La Vie de Pythagore de Diogène Laërce, Breitenbach et al., Diogenis Laertii vita Platonis, Basel, 1907. Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Berlin, 1904 et seqq. ab Arnim, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta, 3 vols., Leipzig, 1903–1905. Diels, Poetarum philosophorum fragmenta, Berlin, 1901. Wachsmuth, Sillographorum Graecorum reliquiae, 2 Bywater, Heracliti Ephesii reliquiae, Oxford, 1877. Parts of the Greek text, in order of publication The Oxford Classical Text, listed above under A.Diogenis Laertii Vitae Philosophorum, ed.Huebnerus, 2 vols., Leipzig, 18 and Commentarii in Diogenem Laertium, 2 vols., Leipzig, 18, with the notes of the Casaubons, Ménage and J. Stephanus, Isaac and Méric Casaubon and Ménage. Laertii Diogenis De vitis dogmatis et apophthegmatis eorum qui in philosophia claruerunt, London, 1664: the Pearson edition, including the notes of Aldobrandini,.Included the useful Notes of Isaac Casaubon. Beginning with the edition of 1593, Stephanus Stephani (Geneva), 1570, with the Latin version of Ambrosius. eorum qui in Philosophia claruerunt, libri x, in aedibus H. Hieronymus Frobenius et Nicolaus Episcopius studiosis S.P.D., apud Frobenium, Basel, 1533 (the editio princeps).Life of Xenophon in the Juntine Xenophon of 1527 (the 2nd edition).Lives of Aristotle and Theophrastus in Vol. Parts published before the editio princeps of the whole Philotheus Boehner, O.F.M.?) in the Franciscan Institute of St. Hicks, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard. Incipit Catalogue (chiefly the work of the Rev. (English translation quoted here: Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vols.
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