Diogenes Laertius Vitae philosophorum 4.6.35

R. D. Hicks (Translator)

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Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.

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Current edition Perseus

Lives of Eminent Philosophers (English) (Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.)

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Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων Perseus (Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.) — 4.6.35 focus

Notes on the current edition

Lives of Eminent Philosophers

1. Nauck, T.G.F. 2, Adesp. 283: cf. Wilam. Antiq. v. Kar. p. 74.
2. Nauck, T.G.F. 2, Eur. 976.
3. Nauck, T.G.F. 2, Soph. 436.
4. Men pay little heed to obvious facts except when their own interests are concerned. So A. C. Pearson, ad loc., Soph. Fragments, 477 (vol. ii. p. 130), who takes διέξοδοι in the more specific sense: passage of the winds (through her body), the reference being to the old fable of the wind-egg (Aristoph. Aves, 695, Aristot. Hist. An. vi. 2, 560 a 6). To the usurer τόκος would suggest interest on loans.