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D.L. 10.24-25 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
Againsl the Dialecticians. Against tin* Sophists, in nine books. The Way to Wisdom. Of Change. Of Wealth. In Criticism of Democritus. Of Noble Birth. Next came Polyaenus, a son of Athenodorus, a citizen of Lampsacus, a just and kindly man, as Philodemus and his pupils affirm. Next came Epicurus's successor Hermarchus, son of Agemortus, a citizen of Mitylene, the son of a poor man and at the outset a student of rhetoric. There are in circulation the following excellent works by him : Correspondence concerning Empedocles, in twentytwo books. Of Mathematics. Against Plato. Against Aristotle. He died of paralysis, but not till he had given full proof of his ability. And then there is Leonteus of Lampsacus and his wife Themista, to whom Epicurus wrote letters ; further, Colotes b and Idomeneus, who were also natives of Lampsacus. All these were distinguished, and with them Poly stratus, the successor of Hermarchus ; he was succeeded by Dionysius, and he by Basilides. Apollodorus, known as the tyrant of the garden, who wrote over four hundred books, is

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 II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L185) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
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