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D.L. 5.49-50 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
On Democritus, one book. [Of Calumny, one book.] Of Becoming, one book. Of the Intelligence and Character of Animals, one book. On Motion, two books. On Vision, four books. Relating to Definitions, two books. On Data, one book. On Greater and Less, one book. On the Musicians, one book. Of the Happiness of the Gods, one book. A Reply to the Academics, one book. Exhortation to Philosophy, one book. How States can best be governed, one book. Lecture-Notes, one book. On the Eruption in Sicily, one book. On Things generally admitted, one book. [On Problems in Physics, one book. | What are the methods of attaining Knowledge, one book. On the Fallacy known as the Liar, three books. Prolegomena to Topics, one book. Relating to Aeschylus, one book. Astronomical Research, six books. Arithmetical Researches on Growth, one book. Acicharus, one book. On Forensic Speeches, one book. [Of Calumny, one book.] Correspondence with Astycreon, Phanias and Nicanor. Of Piety, one book. Evias, one book. On Times of Crisis, two books. On Relevant Arguments, one book.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Nicanor — 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)
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)