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D.L. 9.48 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
XI. Concerning Homer, or On Correct Epic Diction, and On Glosses. Of Song. On Words. A Vocabulary. So much for the works on literature and music. The works on the arts are these : XII. Prognostication. Of Diet, or Diaetetics. Medical Regimen. Causes concerned with Things Seasonable and Unseasonable. XIII. Of Agriculture, or Concerning Land Measurements. Of Painting. Treatise on Tactics, and On Fighting in Armour. So much for these works. Some include as separate items in the list the following works taken from his notes : Of the Sacred Writings in Babylon. Of those in Meroe. A Voyage round the Ocean. Of <the Right Use of> History. A Chaldaean Treatise. A Phrygian Treatise. Concerning Fever and those whose Malady makes them Cough. Legal Causes and Effects. Problems wrought by Hand. a The other works which some attribute to Demo-

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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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