"Ice is formed by the expulsion from the water of the circular, and the compression of the scalene and acute-angled atoms contained in it; further by the accretion of such atoms from without, which being driven together cause the water to solidify after the expulsion of a certain number of round atoms. Among the early philosophers, says Diocles, his favourite was Anaxagoras, although he occasionally disagreed with him, and Archelaus the teacher of Socrates. 138. ii. If a man is unworthy, do not praise him because of his wealth. [110] The air thus emitted was moulded by their individual feelings or sense-presentations, and differently according to the difference of the regions which the tribes inhabited. What is hard? 37, 73, 82, 152. 15. But Bias piled up heaps of sand with a layer of corn on the top, and showed them to the man, and finally, on being informed of this, Alyattes made a treaty of peace with the people of Priene. 91. As he himself states in his Elements of Philosophy, he takes as criteria of truth (1) that by which the judgement is formed, namely, the ruling principle of the soul; (2) the instrument used, for instance the most accurate perception. 129. "For every subject treated by Epicurus, Chrysippus in his contentiousness must treat at equal length; 27. hence he has frequently repeated himself and set down the first thought that occurred to him, and in his haste has left things unrevised, and he has so many citations that they alone fill his books: nor is this unexampled in Zeno and Aristotle." "Snow may be formed when a fine rain issues from the clouds because the pores are symmetrical and because of the continuous and violent pressure of the winds upon clouds which are suitable; and then this rain has been frozen on its way because of some violent change to coldness in the regions below the clouds. Illnesses of long duration even permit of an excess of pleasure over pain in the flesh. For instance, when Croesus sent to Miletus offering terms of alliance, he frustrated the plan; and this proved the salvation of the city when Cyrus obtained the victory. 247-254 (Us. Before making this judgement, we must at some time or other have known by preconception the shape of a horse or a cow. Harvard University Press. 35. Also that among other courtesans who consorted with him and Metrodorus were Mammarion and Hedia and Erotion and Nikidion. There is yet another version, that it was the work of Hephaestus presented by the god to Pelops on his marriage. 333-521, iii. 51. Others cite the first line of the oracle differently, "Myson of Chen in Etis," and inquire what "Myson of Etis" means. Usener's insertion of "bodies and space" comes from 86; cf. Duris in the second book of his Horae gives the inscription on his tomb as follows:[86]. 3, 63, in the last of which it is glossed by ἐρημάζειν, as if the sage were a recluse, a lover of solitude. Neither taste nor touch is treated separately in this epistle. Though he be dead, his soul lives happily, For he will clear up for himself many of the points which I have worked out in detail in my complete exposition; and the summary itself, if borne in mind, will be of constant service to him. Be the same to your friends whether they are in prosperity or in adversity. Hence on the departure of the soul it loses sentience. In a suit in which a friend of his was concerned he himself pronounced sentence according to the law, but he persuaded his colleague who was his friend to acquit the accused, in order at once to maintain the law and yet not to lose his friend. Opinion they also call conception or assumption, and declare it to be true and false;[50] for it is true if it is subsequently confirmed or if it is not contradicted by evidence, and false if it is not subsequently confirmed or is contradicted by evidence. [26] It is that Bathycles, an Arcadian, left at his death a bowl with the solemn injunction that it "should be given to him who had done most good by his wisdom." 78. 7. 599-627, ii. Gesticulation in speaking should be avoided as a mark of insanity. If this Praxiphanes was the pupil of Theophrastus, considerations of age would make it highly improbable that he could have taught Epicurus; cf. And he wrote to Solon the following letter: "You have many friends and a home wherever you go; but the most suitable for Solon will, say I, be Lindus, which is governed by a democracy. Hence he has no longer any need of things which are not to be won save by labour and conflict. He was the first to receive the name of Sage, in the archonship of Damasias[16] at Athens, when the term was applied to all the Seven Sages, as Demetrius of Phalerum mentions in his List of Archons. He seems by some accounts to have been the first to study astronomy,[19] the first to predict eclipses of the sun and to fix the solstices; so Eudemus in his History of Astronomy. "Accustom thyself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply sentience, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an illimitable time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. 45. [59] For in that case anything would have arisen out of anything, standing as it would in no need of its proper germs. Lucr. An obscure person in more recent times who is mentioned by Dionysius in his. was the master's beloved disciple; but the encomium preserved by Seneca (, Epicurus seems to have prefixed dedications or other short notices to the separate books of his larger works. The flesh receives as unlimited the limits of pleasure; and to provide it requires unlimited time. "Not that, if we consider the minute times perceptible by reason alone,[68] There is another which ends with Chrysippus, that is to say by passing from Socrates to Antisthenes, then to Diogenes the Cynic, Crates of Thebes, Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Chrysippus. The story told by Andron[28] in his work on The Tripod is that the Argives offered a tripod as a prize of virtue to the wisest of the Greeks; Aristodemus of Sparta was adjudged the winner but retired in favour of Chilon. ); Lucr. Epicurus used to call this Nausiphanes jelly-fish,[13] an illiterate, a fraud, and a trollop; Plato's school he called "the toadies of Dionysius," their master himself the "golden" Plato,[14] and Aristotle a profligate, who after devouring his patrimony took to soldiering and selling drugs; Protagoras a pack-carrier and the scribe of Democritus and village schoolmaster; Heraclitus a muddler;[15] Democritus Lerocritus (the nonsense-monger); and Antidorus Sannidorus (fawning gift-bearer); the Cynics foes of Greece; the Dialecticians despoilers; and Pyrrho an ignorant boor. Bias is mentioned by Hipponax as stated above, and Heraclitus, who is hard to please, bestows upon him especial praise in these words:[65] "In Priene lived Bias, son of Teutames, a man of more consideration than any." To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient … And there are several other ways in which thunderbolts may possibly be produced. Of my slaves I manumit Mys, Nicias, Lycon, and I also give Phaedrium her liberty.". 628-634. There have lived five other men who bore the name of Thales, as enumerated by Demetrius of Magnesia in his Dictionary of Men of the Same Name: 39. But as to the conduct of life, what we ought to avoid and what to choose, he writes as follows. It is also stated that he was the first to call himself Aeacus; that he foretold to the Lacedaemonians their defeat by the Arcadians; and that he claimed that his soul had passed through many incarnations. And some, including Choerilus the poet, declare that he was the first to maintain the immortality of the soul. For if the void were infinite and bodies finite, the bodies would not have stayed anywhere but would have been dispersed in their course through the infinite void, not having any supports or counter-checks to send them back on their upward rebound. For men used to borrow on the security of theirown persons, and many … 120a. 118. But only as often as they are seen actually to belong to it, since such accidents are not perpetual concomitants. Nor is there anything which can refute sensations or convict them of error: one sensation cannot convict another and kindred sensation, for they are equally valid; nor can one sensation refute another which is not kindred but heterogeneous, for the objects which the two senses judge are not the same;[45] nor again can reason refute them, for reason is wholly dependent on sensation; nor can one sense refute another, since we pay equal heed to all. Nicknames. 122. Nelidae, if Bywater's emendation is correct. 56. Another version is that he came to Delphi and hurled himself down from Mount Corycus. Mate with one of your own rank; for if you take a wife who is superior to you, her kinsfolk will become your masters. Beyond bodies and space there is nothing which by mental apprehension or on its analogy we can conceive to exist. 55. The bowl was carried from place to place by the son of Bathycles, whose name was Thyrion, so it is stated by Eleusis in his work On Achilles, and Alexo the Myndian in the ninth book of his Legends. It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of revelry, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest tumults take possession of the soul. And friends from all parts will come to visit you.". [60] 39. All these were distinguished, and with them Polystratus, the successor of Hermarchus; he was succeeded by Dionysius, and he by Basilides. For what is finite has an extremity, and the extremity of anything is discerned only by comparison with something else. How is it, he asked, that the Greeks prohibit falsehood and yet obviously tell falsehoods in retail trade? Only the wise man will be able to converse correctly about music and poetry, without however actually writing poems himself. And the mind can grasp the absolute truth of this. After a while Anacharsis returned to Scythia, where, owing to his enthusiasm for everything Greek, he was supposed to be subverting the national institutions, and was killed by his brother while they were out hunting together. The story is told that, when his mother tried to force him to marry, he replied it was too soon, and when she pressed him again later in life, he replied that it was too late. "Again, hearing takes place when a current passes from the object, whether person or thing, which emits voice or sound or noise, or produces the sensation of hearing in any way whatever. Usener, Fr. I am a maiden of bronze and I rest upon Midas's tomb. Of all this the beginning and the greatest good is prudence. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Greek: Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων; Latin: Vitae Philosophorum) is a biography of the Greek philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, written in Greek, perhaps in the first half of the third century AD.. Overview. So much for those who are called the Sages, with whom some writers also class Pisistratus the tyrant. "The sea." 6. He planned a canal across the Isthmus. For his mother was supposed to have been a Thracian. Admit the existence of the gods. Many wonderful stories are told about him. Being asked what is difficult, he replied, "Nobly to endure a change for the worse." "For in the study of nature we must not conform to empty assumptions and arbitrary laws, but follow the promptings of the facts; 87. for our life has no need now of unreason and false opinion; our one need is untroubled existence. 70. 136. As in the whole survey, so in this particular point, the facts invite us to give a plurality of explanations. i.e. . For instance, when he saw Munichia, at Athens, he said the Athenians did not know how many evils that place would bring upon them; for, if they did, they would destroy it even if they had to do so with their teeth. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers ( Greek: Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων; Latin: Vitae Philosophorum) is a biography of the Greek philosophers attributed to Diogenes Laërtius, written in Greek, the oldest extant manuscripts of which date from the late 11th to early 12th Centuries. Of all this there is no beginning, since both atoms and void exist from everlasting. Solon the legislator first saw light. His mother was a Greek, and for that reason he spoke both languages. For Solon too will come, with your permission. There is the tradition of the malady which proved fatal to Pherecydes (cf. 3 f. It was probably a commonplace κεφάλαιον in some earlier life of Solon. Democritus; cf. Some make them meet at the Pan-Ionian festival, at Corinth, and at Delphi. Whether he is well off or not will be matter of indifference to him. After ascertaining that the ship's side was four fingers' breadth in thickness, he remarked that the passengers were just so far from death. 13. "For we cannot think of it[100] as sentient, except it be in this composite whole and moving with these movements; nor can we so think of it when the sheaths which enclose and surround it are not the same as those in which the soul is now located and in which it performs these movements. * Times Literary Supplement * A handsome new volume of Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers provides an opportunity to revisit the biographer and the popular assumptions about him. "Moreover, there is an infinite number of worlds, some like this world, others unlike it. 70. 41. the distinction drawn by Sextus Empiricus in, Certainly not the same as the person mentioned by Porphyry in his. Headlands of Locris and Euboean cliffs.[136]. Here Theban Linus, whom Urania bore, The date of the Magians, beginning with Zoroaster the Persian, was 5000 years before the fall of Troy, as given by Hermodorus the Platonist in his work on mathematics; but Xanthus the Lydian reckons 6000 years from Zoroaster to the expedition of Xerxes, and after that event he places a long line of Magians in succession, bearing the names of Ostanas, Astrampsychos, Gobryas, and Pazatas, down to the conquest of Persia by Alexander. Cf. They are followed by Posidonius the Stoic and his school, and Nicolaus and Sotion in the twelfth book of his work entitled Dioclean Refutations, consisting of twenty-four books; also by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. Wisest astronomer, here Thales stands. The man gave the message; a day later the Ephesians attacked and defeated the Magnesians; they found Pherecydes dead and buried him on the spot with great honours. Diocles adds that he used to train his friends in committing his treatises to memory.[22]. Love temperance. Physics flourished down to the time of Archelaus; ethics, as we have said, started with Socrates; while dialectic goes as far back as Zeno of Elea. He spent all his life in Greece, notwithstanding the calamities which had befallen her in that age;[18] when he did once or twice take a trip to Ionia, it was to visit his friends there. He was the first to determine the sun's course from solstice to solstice, and according to some the first to declare the size of the sun to be one seven hundred and twentieth part of the solar circle, and the size of the moon to be the same fraction of the lunar circle. 141. There would be no advantage in providing security against our fellow-men, so long as we were alarmed by occurrences over our heads or beneath the earth or in general by whatever happens in the boundless universe. ii. Hence it is possible to assume one direction of motion, which we conceive as extending upwards ad infinitum, and another downwards, even if it should happen ten thousand times that what moves from us to the spaces above our heads reaches the feet of those above us, or that which moves downwards from us the heads of those below us. For thou wilt check the tongues of chatterers prating without end. They say that matter was the first principle, next the four elements were derived from matter, and thus living things of every species were produced. They say that the stars consist of fire, and that, according as the fire in them is mixed, so events happen upon earth; that the moon is eclipsed when it falls into the earth's shadow; that the soul survives death and passes into other bodies; that rain is caused by change in the atmosphere; of all other phenomena they give physical explanations, as related by Hecataeus and Aristagoras. 63. Such are his views on life and conduct; and he has discoursed upon them at greater length elsewhere. Far in the Sporades! At Athens again he founded the temple of the Eumenides, as Lobon of Argos tells us in his work On Poets. 55. 146, 147; Frs. He also urged men to win bloodless victories. 12. Every sensation, he says, is devoid of reason and incapable of memory; for neither is it self-caused nor, regarded as having an external cause, can it add anything thereto or take anything therefrom. Buy The Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Volume 1): Books 1-5: Vol 1 (Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [email protected]) by Diogenes Laerti, Diogenes Laerti, Hicks, R. D. (ISBN: 9780674992030) from Amazon's Book Store. 7. That funds were raised by friends of Epicurus and placed at his disposal is certain from the letter to Idomeneus: Plut. This text was converted to electronic form by Data Entry and has been proofread to a low level of accuracy. They urge that the Persians have had their Magi, the Babylonians or Assyrians their Chaldaeans, and the Indians their Gymnosophists; and among the Celts and Gauls there are the people called Druids or Holy Ones, for which they cite as authorities the Magicus of Aristotle and Sotion in the twenty-third book of his Succession of Philosophers. Whereby Phoenicians sail the main.[18]. Do not be hasty of speech, for that is a sign of madness. Hicks. Until it quit the city there will be Lucr. Hence, as Dieuchidas says in the fifth book of his Megarian History, Solon did more than Pisistratus to throw light on Homer. To return to the Sage: the story goes that a young man took counsel with him about marriage, and received this answer, as given by Callimachus in his Epigrams:[61]. further research on Hellenistic scholarship, concerning history of philosophy and biographies of philosophers, and on the transmission of early Greek philosophy in Antiquity. That he foresaw the tyranny of Pisistratus is proved by a passage from a poem of his:[43]. His goodness was proved in all ways, as Epicurus testifies in the introductions[35] to his works and in the third book of the Timocrates. 30. This verb (ἄγειν) is technical in Euclid. Others wrote no more than one treatise each, as Melissus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras. And in his correspondence he replaces the usual greeting, "I wish you joy," by wishes for welfare and right living, "May you do well," and "Live well.". costly viands; by the neither natural nor necessary he means desires for crowns and the erection of statues in one's honour. Cleobulus, the son of Euagoras, was born at Lindus, but according to Duris he was a Carian. And the earth either takes in this wind from without or from the falling in of foundations, when undermined, into subterranean caverns, thus raising a wind in the imprisoned air. Compare e.g. 114. And if that which disappears had been destroyed and become non-existent, everything would have perished, that into which the things were dissolved being non-existent. The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. Nevertheless, I will come, to be entertained by you and to make your acquaintance.". of his great work. The Athenians voted him a talent in money and a ship to convey him back to Crete. 32. Let no one see you in a hurry. ", 68. Most of the parameters for this template are preset: |last=Laërtius |first=Diogenes |translator-first=Robert Drew |translator-last=Hicks |year=1925 — this is the default but it can be modified and set to an alternative e.g. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. [30] And I entrust to my School in perpetuity the task of aiding Amynomachus and Timocrates and their heirs to preserve to the best of their power the common life in the garden in whatever way is best, and that these also (the heirs of the trustees) may help to maintain the garden in the same way as those to whom our successors in the School may bequeath it. 63. Asked what occupation gives a man most pleasure, he replied, "Making money." Hence the introduction of the phrase, "that which awaits" confirmation, e.g. It is also stated that he was a very effective pleader; but he was accustomed to use his powers of speech to a good end. The Thracian Orpheus whom Jove's thunder slew. Duris calls his father a Thracian. 51. 32. Chilon laid the question "Who is a wiser man than I?" He bade the Lacedaemonians set no store by gold or silver, as Theopompus says in his Mirabilia. His first achievement was the σεισάχθεια or Law of Release, which he introduced at Athens; its effect was to ransom persons and property. Furthermore that he extolled Idomeneus, Herodotus, and Timocrates, who had published his esoteric doctrines, and flattered them for that very reason. Such mental pictures are caused by atoms too fine to affect sense: cf. 114. And those who have not fully accepted this, in proportion as they have not done so, will be ill acquainted with these very subjects, nor have they secured the end for which they ought to be studied.". "The variations in the length of nights and days may be due to the swiftness and again to the slowness of the sun's motion in the sky, owing to the variations in the length of spaces traversed and to his accomplishing some distances more swiftly or more slowly, as happens sometimes within our own experience; and with these facts our explanation of celestial phenomena must agree; whereas those who adopt only one explanation are in conflict with the facts and are utterly mistaken as to the way in which man can attain knowledge. Which is the better? The growth of strength in man is nature's work; but to set forth in speech the interests of one's country is the gift of soul and reason. A handsome new volume of Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers provides an opportunity to revisit the biographer and the popular assumptions about him. Heraclides of Pontus, in his De mortua, makes him say this at Sicyon in conversation with Leon, who was the prince of that city or of Phlius. 65. His counsel to men in general is stated by Apollodorus in his work on the Philosophic Sects as follows: Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. They move with rapid motion;[74] and this again explains why they present the appearance of the single continuous object, and retain the mutual interconnexion which they had in the object, when they impinge upon the sense, such impact being due to the oscillation of the atoms in the interior of the solid object from which they come. After engaging in politics he became a student of nature. Never reproach any one with a misfortune, for fear of Nemesis. (Now the sum of things is not discerned by comparison with anything else:[64] hence, since it has no extremity, it has no limit; and, since it has no limit, it must be unlimited or infinite. As Plato testifies, he was one of the Seven Sages. Most writers, however, represent him as a genuine Milesian and of a distinguished family. Sosicrates' account is that he died fortyone years before Croesus, just before the 49th Olympiad. However, if it would give you any pleasure, I am quite willing to discuss the subject of your book with you; and if you bid me come to Syros I will do so. 288, 289 (Us. Daimachus the Platonist and Clearchus allege that a bowl was sent by Croesus to Pittacus and began the round of the Wise Men from him. [53] So much, then, for his division[54] and criterion in their main outline. iv. 75. [63] It follows that the first beginnings must be indivisible, corporeal entities. For if he truly believes this, why does he not depart from life? Natural justice is a symbol or expression of expediency, to prevent one man from harming or being harmed by another. [Further, he says below, that the atoms move with equal speed, since the void makes way for the lightest and heaviest alike.] But I would have you, as becomes your life-long attitude to me and to philosophy, watch over the children of Metrodorus.". "Courage, my friend. 102. 110. [101] But it is impossible to conceive anything that is incorporeal as self-existent except empty space. of the work "On Nature" and in the Larger Epitome], of bodies some are composite, others the elements of which these composite bodies are made. Grudge not if my invention better thine; These authorities assume. A short letter is also ascribed to him. Properly "further within" – a proof that the Scholiast read his Epicurus from a papyrus scroll which had to be unrolled. "Again, there are outlines or films, which are of the same shape as solid bodies, but of a thinness far exceeding that of any object that we see. "Clouds may form and gather either because the air is condensed under the pressure of winds, or because atoms which hold together and are suitable to produce this result become mutually entangled, or because currents collect from the earth and the waters; and there are several other ways in which it is not impossible for the aggregations of such bodies into clouds to be brought about. Nor can we help thinking that in this way, by proceeding forward from one to the next in order, it is possible by such a progression to arrive in thought at infinity.[87]. [114] 86. 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