# The first philosophers of Greece

Author: Fairbanks, Arthur, 1864-1944

Genre: Philosophy, Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78670

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## Summary

by the quotation in Simplicius) as is the Platonic version. Unless our MSS. are greatly at fault, two of the four passages were very carelessly reproduced, and we have reason to believe that they were drawn from Plato. The fourth passage, given by Aristotle and Theophrastos, has the appearance of careful quotation, though one verb has an unmetrical form in our Aristotle (where Theophrastos gives a correct form). Aristotle does not quote directly from either Zeno or Melissos.

## Chapters

- [viii. 54 that this is the beginning of the καθάρματα comes from the same](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-philosophers-of-greece-78670/chapters/2/index.md)
- [ll. 103-105 are not so near to what seems to be the original (judged](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-philosophers-of-greece-78670/chapters/1/index.md)