DIOGENES LAERTIUS LIVES OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY R. D. HICKS, M.A. YELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMDRIDGR IN TWO VOLUMES I CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD ‘MOMLIXCONTENTS OF VOLUME I Paerace. - / ee ee Page INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . ix BwuocRaPHY. 5 ee we XKXEK ‘TsstIMoNIA - . . . . . » xlvi BOOK I— PHOLOQUE s+ + we le Tues 5 ee ee Soton ime a » 46 Canow see eB Prrracus, wee ee Bus . . . . + . . . 84 Cops» we ee 90 PERIANDER. 7 96 Anacuansis. 5s 5 104 Myson .,. « e + 110 Erimenpes.V ) MUCUS Puerecvoes 5 ww ee 180 BOOK II— Anaxmanper Ye. 6 ee 180 ANAXIMENES We) eee 182 Anaxagoras J. 5 + + we 184 ArcHEaus. =» + es AM Socrates. 0. oe 148 Xenornon . . . . . . » 176CONTENTS Phan Agscuines . . . . . + 6 188 Anstippus. see ee 10H Puazpo . ) +s + + 882 Evenipes See 88M Srupo. ee 40 Certo. 2 ee et Simon . . . . . . soe in PREFACE Giaveow st tt ase A new translation of this author, though long over- Ceses. tee ee 856 due, may yet appear premature at the present Miwuceuus ' "1d 236 anoment when new editions of the text are promised, However, a most valuable portion of the work, the BOOK Ill— Epistles of Epicurus, has appeared in a new recension 5 Puro. ee ee te 86 and the text of the biographies is hardly likely to undergo radical reconstruction. There is substantial BOOK Iv— agreement that the mss. are late; that the scribe Srsusprus. 5 eet 8TH of the best, the Borbonicus, did not know Greek ; Nenocearss- 5 ss “01980 that the mistakes which all share most likely came Poumo . . . + + + « 892 from their common archetype. To reconstruct the Crates 5 ne s+ + 898 text of an author from such sources would have Crantor . 7 7 . . . . 400 been in any case difficult; the difficulty is in- ARCESILAUS « 7 | . . < ~ 404 creased by the misfortune that the Editio Princeps Bion . : rer) was printed, not from the Borbonicus or Parisiensis, Lacypes . 5 . 5 a » 484 but from a worthless interpolated later ms. CARNEADES . . 7 7 . . 486 The efforts of early editors to remove the grossest Curomacnus 5 wet ww 448 blunders lasted more than a century and resulted in the edition of Marcus Meibomius, which has the BOOK V— commentary of Aegidius Menagius. After the pub- Arsrome. ee eee AM lication of this edition our author fell into neglect Tamorunastus . . 0; ee + ABR until the nineteenth century brought faller study Strato. ee ee ew 508: of better mss., initiated by Cobet and carried on Lycoo. . 4 Sen 518 especially by Usener for Book X. If anyone hold. Demeraus, . 5 + eee 586 that the present is too early a time for a translator Heracuives . : 7 i . 538 who has not first revised the text of the author, I vi vii