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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laertius

Page 102, “Syphon” changed to “Typhon” (where Typhon’s voice resounds) Page 102, “Cnistippus” changed to “Aristippus” (the Aristippus or Callias) Page 103, “Sophibus” changed to “Sophilus” (Sophilus the comic poet) Page 103, “dicourse” changed to “discourse” (the whole discourse of this Charinus) Page 103, “Polititical” changed to “Political” (on Political Science) Page 104, “Minexenus” changed to “Menexenus” (the Cephalus; the Anaxiphemus; the Menexenus) Page 105, “Simeas” changed to “Simias” (Simias was a Theban) Page 105, “Theoprobidæ” changed to “Theopropidæ” (one of those who are called Theopropidæ) Page 106, “Cassandra” changed to “Cassandrea” (Eurylochus, of Cassandrea) Page 107, “Nicorreon” changed to “Nicocreon” (at the court of Nicocreon) Page 110, “Hyporicus” changed to “Hipponicus” (Hipponicus the Macedonian) Page 110, “Hipporicus” changed to “Hipponicus” (Hipponicus gave Menedemus two thousand drachmas) Page 113, “Petone” changed to “Potone” (the son of Ariston and Perictione or Potone) Page 113, “Diopidas” changed to “Dropidas” (had a brother named Dropidas) Page 114, “Conservations” changed to “Conversations” (the eighth book of his Philosophical Conversations) Page 114, “Petone” changed to “Potone” (a sister called Potone) Page 116, “Alcinus” changed to “Alcimus” (as Alcimus says in his essays) Page 117, “Alcinus” changed to “Alcimus” (And Alcimus speaks as follows) Page 119, “Alcinus” changed to “Alcimus” (compared by Alcimus through four books) Page 120, “Deni” changed to “Dion” twice (being appeased by Dion / it was Dion who sent the money) Page 120, “Aristimenes” changed to “Aristomenes” (being appeased by Dion and Aristomenes) Page 120, “Helia” changed to “Helice” (drowned in Helice) Page 121, “Thetas” changed to “Theotas” (suspected of exciting Dion and Theotas) Page 123, “Mesopis” changed to “Meropis” (Alexis says in his Meropis) Page 123, “Analion” changed to “Ancylion” (And in his Ancylion, he says) Page 123, “Pseudripobolimæus” changed to “Pseudypobolimæus” (Cratinas in his Pseudypobolimæus, says) Page 126, “Sothon” changed to “Sathon” (which he entitled Sathon) Page 127, “Mysonianus” changed to “Myronianus” (But Myronianus, in his Resemblances) Page 128, “Cephiciades” changed to “Cephisiades” (the temple of the Cephisiades) Page 128, “Phreanian” changed to “Phrearrian” (Archestratus the Phrearrian) Page 128, “Challidian” changed to “Chollidian” (Philip the Chollidian) Page 128, “Ademantus” changed to “Adimantus” (shall belong to my son Adimantus) Page 128, “Sychon” changed to “Tychon” (My slaves Tychon, Bictas) Page 128, “Tozthenes” changed to “Sosthenes” (My executors shall be Sosthenes) Page 130, “Alexander” changed to “Alexamenus” (Alexamenus, a native of Styra) Page 130, “at” changed to “as” (the other is as it were tentative) Page 131, “Clitiphon” changed to “Clitophon” (the Menexenus, the Clitophon, the Epistles) Page 131, “Hippiastro” changed to “Hippias too” (and Protagoras, Hippias too) Page 134, “Meætetus” changed to “Theætetus” (The Theætetus, or Knowledge) Page 135, “Aristodemns” changed to “Aristodemus” (one letter to Aristodemus) Page 135, “Chilidon” changed to “Chelidon” (the Demodorus; the Chelidon; the Seventh;) Page 139, “lives” changed to “live” (those which live in the water) Page 142, “Lacædemon” changed to “Lacedæmon” (in Lacedæmon and Macedonia) Page 152, “aud” changed to “and” (paralysis, and sent to) Page 153, “Amartynus” changed to “Amartyrus” (an Essay addressed to Amartyrus) Page 155, “Myornianus” changed to “Myronianus” (as Myronianus tells us in his Similitudes) Page 156, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (the Archedemus, or an essay on Justice) Page 157, “Spuesippus” changed to “Speusippus” (He succeeded Speusippus) Page 162, “Meætetus” changed to “Theætetus the poet wrote thus about him” (Theætetus the poet wrote thus about him) Page 167, “Aleximes” changed to “Alexinus” (a certain dialectician, a pupil of Alexinus) Page 167, “Callecrates” changed to “Callicrates” (that of Archecrates and Callicrates) Page 168, “Aristi” changed to “Aristo” (Aristo, the Chian) Page 168, “Mydea” changed to “Myrlea” (Cleochares of Myrlea) Page 169, “Alcymeus” changed to “Alcyoneus” (the birthday of Alcyoneus) Page 174, “Eretosthenes” changed to “Eratosthenes” (they relate that Eratosthenes said) Page 176, “Proconnesas” changed to “Proconnesus” (he was a native of Proconnesus) Page 179, “logoædical” changed to “logaœdical” (lines in logaœdical Archebulian metre) Page 183, “Demophelus” changed to “Demophilus” (his prosecutor was Demophilus) Page 184, “Calumia” changed to “Calauria” (Demosthenes died in Calauria) Page 184, “Calisthenes” changed to “Callisthenes” (the conspiracy of Callisthenes against Alexander) Page 186, “Aubracis” changed to “Ambracis” (Ambracis shall have her liberty) Page 186, “where-ever” changed to “wherever” (wherever else they think fit) Page 188, “is” changed to “his” (and his answer was) Page 193, “incoporeal” changed to “incorporeal” (something which has an incorporeal species) Page 194, “his” changed to “her” (as Pamphila asserts in the thirty-second book of her Commentaries) Page 194, “Menandar” changed to “Menander” (he was the tutor of Menander) Page 195, “Tyrtanius” changed to “Tyrtamus” (His name had originally been Tyrtamus) Page 196, “Phalerius” changed to “Phalereus” (by the assistance of Demetrius Phalereus) Page 199, repeated word “Natural” removed (Problems in Natural History) Page 199, “Astyceron” changed to “Astycreon” (Letters to Astycreon, Phanias, and Nicanor) Page 200, “Callenus” changed to “Callinus” (Neleus, Strato, Callinus, Demotimus) Page 201, “Donar” changed to “Donax” (and Donax to Neleus) Page 201, “Eulius” changed to “Eubius” (I order Eubius to be sold) Page 202, “Thrasos” changed to “Thasos” (Lysistratus of Thasos) Page 202, “dilligence” changed to “diligence” (in the diligence with which he applied himself) Page 204, “Innesigenes” changed to “Mnesigenes” (Aristides, Mnesigenes, Hippocrates) Page 204, “Olympicus” changed to “Olympichus” (let Iræus calculate with Olympichus) Page 204, “Ausinias” changed to “Aminias” (with Olympichus and Aminias) Page 204, “Philoreatos” changed to “Philocrates” (Philocrates, the son of Tisamenus) Page 205, “saying” changed to “sayings” (Another of his sayings was) Page 206, repeated word “in” removed (all that I have in the city) Page 207, “Amplicon” changed to “Amphion” (and Ariston, and Amphion, and Lycon) Page 208, “Micras” changed to “Micrus” twice (Micrus I hereby present with his freedom / I also hereby emancipate the mother of Micrus) Page 208, “Menedora” changed to “Menodora” (four minæ, and Menodora) Page 208, “to” changed to “too” (in this respect too he deserves) Page 211, “Antiphones” changed to “Antiphanes” (on Antiphanes, one;) Page 212, “Colatia” changed to “Calatia” (the sixth was a native of Calatia) Page 212, “Euthyræ” changed to “Erythræ” (the twelfth was a grammarian of Erythræ) Page 212, “Bythinian” changed to “Bithynian” (the thirteenth was a Bithynian) Page 212, “Pamotus” changed to “Panætius” (Panætius of Rhodes) Page 212, “unsubtantial” changed to “unsubstantial” (Fought o’er a tomb and unsubstantial shade) Page 215, “Aretodorus” changed to “Autodorus” (Autodorus the Epicurean reproaches him) Page 215, “Spentharus” changed to “Spintharus” (as some say Spintharus) Page 216, “Panculus” changed to “Pancalus” (they formed the name of Pancalus) Page 216, “Nisius” changed to “Hicesius” (a physician, a pupil of Hicesius) Page 219, “Philosphers” changed to “Philosophers” (his treatise on the Philosophers) Page 223, missing word “an” added (an essay on Telemachus) Page 224, “Tresius” changed to “Hicesius” (the son of Hicesius, a money-changer) Page 224, “Perdalus” changed to “Pordalus” (he himself, in his Pordalus) Page 225, “Polymeter” changed to “Polyeuctus” (Polyeuctus, the orator) Page 225, “Æschorion” changed to “Æschrion” (Lysanias, the son of Æschrion) Page 231, “Ægesilaus” changed to “Agesilaus” (if Agesilaus and Epaminondas are) Page 233, “Calisthenes” changed to “Callisthenes” (the happiness of Callisthenes) Page 239, “Thelian” changed to “Melian” (Diagoras the Melian) Page 244, “belong” changed to “belongs” (everything belongs to the wise) Page 245, “Philistus” changed to “Philiscus” (not rather the work of Philiscus) Page 245, “Circe” changed to “crier” (when the crier asked him) Page 247, missing word “art” added (Since you alone did teach to men the art) Page 247, “Œdippus” changed to “Œdipus” (the Chrysippus, and the Œdipus) Page 247, “Solmæus” changed to “Tolmæus” (the Beggar; the Tolmæus; the Leopard) Page 248, “Sicymian” changed to “Sicyonian” (The second was a Sicyonian) Page 249, “Osnesicritus” changed to “Onesicritus” (Onesicritus is called by some authors) Page 249, “Clocus” changed to “Clœus” (Hegesæus of Sinope, who was nicknamed Clœus) Page 254, “Theomentus” changed to “Theombrotus” (His pupils were Theombrotus and Cleomenes) Page 257, “Celotes” changed to “Colotes” (a disciple of Colotes of Lampsacus) Page 259, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (Zeno was the son of Mnaseas) Page 260, “Priscanactium” changed to “Peisianactium” (colonnade which is called the Peisianactium) Page 262, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (Since Zeno the son of Mnaseas) Page 263, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (Zeno, the son of Mnaseas, the Cittiæan) Page 263, “Acharnæs” changed to “Acharnæ” (Medon of Acharnæ) Page 263, “Mecythus of Sypalyttas” changed to “Micythus of Sypalettus” (Micythus of Sypalettus, and Dion) Page 264, “simdapsus” changed to “skindapsus” (Likewise her mind was less than a skindapsus.) Page 265, “coni” changed to “coin” (well-formed like the coin) Page 265, “tessedrachmas” changed to “tetradrachmas” (he likened to the Attic tetradrachmas) Page 268, “perssn” changed to “person” (why he was the only person) Page 269, “entertaiments” changed to “entertainments” (in entertainments of that kind) Page 270, “sumits” changed to “summits” (The summits of Olympus) Page 271, “Innaseas” changed to “Mnaseas” (his father Mnaseas often came to Athens) Page 272, “Hesophila” changed to “Herophila” (the sixth was a physician of Herophila), although it is possible “a Herophilean physician”, i.e. a follower of Herophilus, is intended here. Page 273, “Halcymeus” changed to “Halcyoneus” (to whose son, Halcyoneus, he also acted) Page 273, “Theles” changed to “Thebes” (Philonides, of Thebes) Page 274, “Posidorus” changed to “Posidonius” (Diogenes, the Babylonian; and Posidonius) Page 274, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (Chrysippus, and Archedemus, and Eudromus) Page 275, “coversant” changed to “conversant” (which is conversant with rules and tests) Page 279, “Boethius” changed to “Boethus” (For Boethus leaves a great many criteria) Page 279, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (so it is laid down by Archedemus) Page 282, “deificiences” changed to “deficiencies” (of attributes and deficiencies) Page 291, “Archidemus” changed to “Archedemus” (And Archedemus defines it) Page 297, “exite” changed to “excite” (do not excite any inclination) Page 306, “Chrysyppus” changed to “Chrysippus” (Another doctrine of Chrysippus) Page 306, “Thrasmides” changed to “Thrasonides” (Accordingly, that Thrasonides) Page 316, “sone” changed to “some” (some of them are shakings) Page 318, “Scion” changed to “Siren” (surnamed the Siren) Page 320, “Scayon” changed to “Scazon” (a jesting epigram on him in Scazon iambics)