ἱστορίαι Historiai
D.L. 2.14-16 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
acquittal not so much to the merits of his case as to the sympathy of the judges. So much then on the subject of his trial. He was supposed to have borne Democritus a grudge because he had failed to get into communication with him.* At length he retired to Lampsacus and there died. And when the magistrates of the city asked if there was anything he would like done. for him, he replied that he would like them to grant an annual holiday to the boys in the month in which he died; and the custom is kept up to this day. So, when he died, the people of Lampsacus gave him honourable burial and placed over his grave the following inscription ? : Here Anaxagoras, who in his quest Of truth scaled heaven itself, is laid to rest. I also have written an epigram upon him © : The sun’s a molten mass, Quoth Anaxagoras ; This is his crime, his life must pay the price. Pericles from that fate Rescued his friend too late ; His spirit crushed, by his own hand he dies. There have been three other men who bore the name of Anaxagoras [of whom no other writer gives a complete list]. The first was a rhetorician of the school of Isocrates ; the second a sculptor, mentioned by Antigonus; the third a grammarian, pupil of Zenodotus. Cuaprer 4. ARCHELAUS ¢ (c. 450 B.c.) Archelaus, the son of Apollodorus, or as some say

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Anaxagoras — a life Isocrates — a candidate entry Lampsacus — a candidate entry

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
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)
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