he sat down wrapped in a sheep-skin cloak as if it were going to rain; and the rain came. When some one asked him if the hills at Lampsacus would ever become sea, he replied, “ Yes, it only needs time.’ Being asked to what end he had been born, he replied, ““To study sun and moon and heavens.” ‘To one who inquired, “‘ You miss the society of the Athenians?” his reply was, “ Not I, but they miss mine.’”’ When he saw the tomb of Mausolus, he said, “A costly tomb is an image of an estate turned into stone.”’* To one who complained that he was dying in a foreign land, his answer was, “‘ The descent to Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.”’ Favorinus in his Miscellaneous History says Anaxagoras was the first to maintain that Homer in his poems treats of virtue and justice, and that this thesis was defended at greater length by his friend Metrodorus of Lampsacus, who was the first to busy himself with Homer’s physical doctrine. Anaxagoras was also the first to publish a book with diagrams.® Silenus® in the first book of his History gives the archonship of Demylus?¢ as the date when the meteoric stone fell, and says that Anaxagoras declared the whole firmament to be made of stones; that the