Olympiad ¢ Anaximander was sixty-four, and that he died not long afterwards. Thus he flourished almost at the same time as Polycrates the tyrant of Samos.? There is a story that the boys laughed at his singing, and that, when he heard of it, he rejoined, “ Then to please the boys I must improve my singing.”’ There is another Anaximander, also of Miletus, a historian who wrote in the Ionic dialect. Cuapter 2. ANAXIMENES® (flor. c. 546 B.C.) Anaximenes, the son of Eurystratus, a native of Miletus, was a pupil of Anaximander. According to some, he was also a pupil of Parmenides. He took for his first principle air or that which is unlimited. He held that the stars move round the earth but do not go under it. He writes simply and unaffectedly in the Ionic dialect. : According to Apollodorus he was contemporary with the taking of Sardis and died in the 63rd Olympiad.¢ There have been two other men named Anaximenes, both of Lampsacus, the one a rhetorician who wrote on the achievements of Alexander, the other, the nephew of the rhetorician, who was a historian. Anaximenes the philosopher wrote the following Eietters : Anaximenes to Pythagoras ** Thales, the son of Examyas, has met an unkind fate in his old age. He went out from the court of