The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

theory of ideas, 118. valiant soldier, a, x. 115. visits Sicily, volcanoes, xiv. 119. what he taught, xix. 122. where he first taught, viii. 114. will, his last, xxx. 127. POLEMO, his calmness, iv. 158. epigram, viii. 160. fond, of Sophocles, vii. 159. imitated Xenocrates, vi. 159. intemperate and profligate, 158. much honoured, iv. 158. rigorous system of morals, iv. 158. POTAMO and his school, xiv. 13. Potter’s wheel, invented by Anacharsis, viii. 48. PROTAGORAS, method of arguing, his, iii. 397. taught at a fixed price, 398. works, his, v. 398. wrecked in his way to Sicily, vii. 399. PYRRHO, originally a painter, 402. account of him, by Antigonus, 402. arguing, ten modes of, ix. 409. arguing, five others added by Agrippa, x. 412. attached to Anaxarchus, ii. 402. certainty not attainable, 414. disciples, vii. 405. —— called Sceptics from their doubting every thing, viii. 405. eloquent, 403. fortitude and economy, vi. 404. good, natural, or natural evil, none, 417. honoured by his country, 403. impassiveness, vi. 404. learning, no such thing, 417. left no writings, 418. motion, none, 417. production, none, 417. signs, invisible of visible things, 416. signs, visible of visible things, none, 415. system learned from his disciples, 418. travelled to India, 402. PYTHAGORAS, accounted a son of Mercury, iv. 339. his works, v. 340. community of property with friends, viii. 342. division of life, vii. 342. doctrine of monads, xix. 348. founder of Italian philosophy, i. 338. geometrician, xi. 342. greatly admired, xv. 342. initiated into mysteries, iii. 338. introduced weights and measures to Greece, xiii. 344. letter to Anaximenes, xxvi. 358. manner of his death, xxi. 354. opinions on nature, xix. 349. practised divination, xviii. 346. precepts, vi. 341. —— as to worship, xix. 347. prohibition as to food, xviii. 346. ridiculed by Timon, xv. 353. symbols, his, xvii. 345. wife and son, xxii. 355. worship of Apollo, xii. 343. Schools of philosophy, xiii. 12. Seven wise men, the, xiv. 21. SIMIAS, the Theban, 105. SIMON, the Athenian leather cutter, 104. SOCRATES, an artificer, 64. character, his, viii. 66. contests, his, xxv. 74. counsels and sayings, xvi. 69. dæmon warnings, xvi. 69. executed for opinions, the first philosopher who was, v. 64. lamented by the Athenians, xxiii. 73. persuasive power, xii. 68. ransoms Phædo and teaches him philosophy, xiv. 68. school, his, xxvi. 74. saves Xenophon’s life, vii. 65. serves in Xenophon’s army, vii. 65. slaves, would not have, xiii. 68. wives, his, xvii. 70. SOLON, the wise, life of, 23. apophthegms, his, xvi. 30. counsels, his, xii. 29. death of, xv. 29. escapes from Athens, iv. 25. excites Athens against Salamis, ii. 23. inscription on his statue, xv. 29. laws as to debts, i. 23. laws, vii. 26. letter to Crœsus, xx. 52. —— Epimenides, xviii. 30. —— Periander, xvii. 30. —— Pisistratus, xix. 31. means of preventing injustice, x. 28. opposes Pisistratus, iii. 24. poems, his, xiii. 29. taught time by moon, xi. 28. SPEUSIPPUS, a basket-maker, vi. 152. commentaries, his, xi. 153. passionate and voluptuous, 152. Plato’s successor, 152. puts an end to his life, ix. 153. SPHÆRUS, at Alexandria, 326. his books, iii. 327. Stars, Stoics, doctrine of, lxxi. 311. STILPO, his acuteness, ii. 100. his dialogues, viii. 102. his end, x. 103. opinions on statues, v. 101. politician, a, iii. 100. rejects theory of species, vii. 102. his simplicity, vi. 101. visits Ptolemy Soter, iv. 101. Stoics, doctrines of, xxxiii. 274. STRATO, the natural philosopher, ii. 202. Ptolemy Philadelphus, his pupil, iii. 202. successor of Theophrastus, 202. will, his last, vii. 203. writings, his, iv. 203. THALES, the wise, astronomical science studied and taught by him, ii. 14. death of, xii. 20. letter to Pherecydes, xv. 22. —— Solon, xvi. 22. sayings of, ix. 18. star-gazing and falling into the ditch, viii. 18. tripod awarded to him, vii. 16. views of the soul, his, iii. 15. Theodoreans, their opinions, xi. 93. THEODORUS, a disciple of Aristippus, xv. 94. banished for his opinions, xvi. 95. THEOPHRASTUS, Aristotle’s pupil and friend, 194. character of, iv. 194. name, symbolic, vi. 195. will, his last, xiv. 200. writings, his, xiii. 196. Thesmophoria, what, _note_, 394. TIMON, of Phliasis, 420. acuteness of, ii. 422. delighted in a garden, v. 422. fond of drinking, ii. 421. a jester, vi. 422. his pupils, vii. 423. Virtue and vice, Stoics’ doctrine of, lxv. 304. Water, the principle of all things, vi. 15. Wise man, the Stoics’, lxiv. 301. Wise men, the, who, ix. 10. XENOCRATES, accidental death, xii. 157. a grave and solemn man, iii. 154. habit of meditation, viii. 156. kind to a sparrow, vi. 156. pupil of Plato, 154. self-denial of, v. 155. sold for his taxes, x. 157. writings, his, ix. 156. XENOPHANES, banished, 382. buried his sons with his own hands, iv. 384. doctrines, his, iii. 383. wrote poems, iii. 383. XENOPHON, banished by the Athenians, vii. 76. called the Attic muse, xiv. 78. conduct on death of his son, x. 77. escape to Corinth, ix. 77. first writer of memorabilia, iii. 75. follower of Socrates, ii. 75. friend of Cyrus, v. 75. love of Clinias, iv. 75. writings, his, xiii. 78. ZALEUCUS, account of, _note_, 345. ZENO, the Stoic, his abstinence, &c. xxiii. 269. admires Diodorus, xx. 266. anecdotes of him, xix. 266. Antigonus respects him, viii. 261. Athenians crown him, ix. 263. disciples and works, xxxi. 273. doctrines, xxxii. 273. kills himself, xxvi. 270. lectures in the Stoa or porch, vii. 261. manner of reproving, xix. 265. personal appearance, ii. 259. pupil of Crates, iii. 259. retiring disposition, xv. 264. republic, his, xxviii. 271. turn for investigation, xvii. 264. his vices, xiii. 263. writes about duty, xxi. 269. writings, iv. 260. ZENO, the Eleatic, adopted son of Parmenides, 386. arrested for treason against Nearches, v. 387. chief doctrines, viii. 388. invented dialectics, iv. 387. pounded to death in a mortar, v. 387. ZOROASTER, his philosophy, _note_, 5. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E., AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W. Transcriber’s Note The original of this text was not edited as carefully as it could have been. As a result, for this e-text quite a number of changes have been made. These are based on comparison with other editions of the same work and with the original Greek text. List of changes made: Table of Contents, swapped positions of “Preface” and “Introduction” Table of Contents, “Zenophon” changed to “Xenophon” Page 7, “apophthegmns” changed to “apophthegms” (apophthegms in enigmatical language) Page 12, “Pyhrronean” changed to “Pyrrhonean” (the Pyrrhonean is repudiated by many writers) Page 14, “Focus” changed to “Phocus” (Phocus the Samian) Page 16, “Bathydes” changed to “Bathycles” twice (of the name of Bathycles / the son of Bathycles) Page 31, “ursurping” changed to “usurping” (from usurping the tyranny) Page 35, “his” changed to “her” (Pamphila says, in the second book of her Commentaries) Page 37, “Favorinus” changed to “Phavorinus” (as Phavorinus tells us) Page 46, “Anacharis” changed to “Anacharsis” (Anacharsis the Scythian was the son of Gnurus) Page 51, “Ctesilius” changed to “Ctesibius” (Cratinus and Ctesibius) Page 51, “Rhodamanthus” changed to “Rhadamanthus” (on Minos and Rhadamanthus) Page 53, “Sosilius” changed to “Sosibius” (as Sosibius the Lacedæmonian says) Page 55, “wiih” changed to “with” (Adorned with valour while alive) Page 57, plus in 22 other places throughout the book, “Pharorinus” changed to “Phavorinus” Page 57, missing words “Ionic dialect.” added (and wrote in the Ionic dialect.) 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