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D.L. 5.86-87 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
Of Justice, three books. Of Temperance, one book. Of Piety, five books. Of Courage, one book. Of Virtue in general, one book. A second with the same title. Of Happiness, one book. Of Government, one book. On Laws, one book, and on subjects kindred to these. Of Names, one book. Agreements, one book. On the Involuntary, one book. Concerning Love, and Clinias, one book. Others are physical treatises : Of Reason. Of the Soul, and a separate treatise with the same title. Of Nature. Of Images. Against Democritus. Of Celestial Phenomena, one book. Of Things in the Under-world. On Various Ways of Life, two books. The Causes of Diseases, one book. Of the Good, one book. Against Zeno’s Doctrines, one book. A Reply to Metron’s Doctrines, one book. To grammar and criticism belong : Of the Age of Homer and Hesiod, two books Of Archilochus and Homer, two books. Of a literary nature are : A work on passages in Euripides and Sophocles, three books.

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)
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)