Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V)
Diogenes Laertius
translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
The house holds 274 episodes of this work — 71,399 words of testimony.
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. I (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L184) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
license: public-domain (US: published 1925, pre-1930 — the MCMXXV title page verified by the 2026-07-08 acquisition lane, pin in ops/sources/MANIFEST.md; only the English rectos are served, Hicks's translation)
provenance: ops/sources/books/Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers [I (Books 1-5, Loeb L184)] (archive.org).pdf sha256 bf9cc686b52dce9f44db81111966db06428cb9250831a0699653380ee3f8cf3d (md5 cross-checked against the acquisition fetch log; see ops/sources/MANIFEST.md); extraction profile dl1-loeb-v1 (ops/pipeline/); NOTE: the TRUE volume I (archive.org livesofeminentph01diog, body opens with the Prologue/Thales and ends inside Book V) — the original fetch-run file labeled vol. I is a duplicate scan of vol. II; completes the author: vol. II (Books VI-X) was poured in W6