ἱστορίαι Historiai
D.L. 5.80-81 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
no equal. Some of these works are historical and others political; there are some dealing with poets, others with rhetoric. Then there are public speeches and reports of embassies, besides collections of Aesop’s fables and much else. He wrote: Of Legislation at Athens, five books. Of the Constitutions of Athens, two books. Of Statesmanship, two books. On Politics, two books. Of Laws, one book. On Rhetoric, two books. On Military Matters, two books. On the Iliad, two books. On the Odyssey, four books. ° And the following works, each in one book: Ptolemy. Concerning Love. Phaedondas. Maedon. Cleon. Socrates. Artaxerxes. Concerning Homer. Aristides. Aristomachus. An Exhortation to Philosophy. Of the Constitution. . On the ten years of his own Supremacy. Of the Tonians. Concerning Embassies. Of Belief. -Of Favour. Of Fortune.

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

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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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