[82] χρήσασθαι, uti, Cr., “employed,” Macmahon.
[83] A fair specimen of Hippolytus’ verbose and inflated style.
[84] No other philosopher has yet been quoted as saying that the earth was spherical.
[85] This sentence is said to have been interpolated.
[86] ἐκ τοῦ περιέχοντος, “from the surrounding (æther).” An expression much used by writers on astrology and generally translated “ambient.”
[87] Diog. Laert., IX, vit. Dem., c. 1, says either Damasippus or Hegesistratus or Athenocritus.
[88] It is doubtful whether astrology was known in Egypt before the Alexandrian age. Diog. Laert., vit. cit., quotes from Antisthenes that Democritus studied mathematics there, and astrology was looked on by the Romans as a branch of mathematics. Cf. Sextus Empiricus, ubi cit., supra.
[89] καὶ τῇ μὲν γένεσθαι, τῇ δὲ ἐκλείπειν.
[90] So Apollodorus. Diog. Laert., IX, vit. Xenophan., c. 1, says of Dexius.
[91] Diog. Laert., ubi cit., says Sotion of Alexandria is the authority for this, but that he was mistaken. Hippolytus says later in Book I (p. [59] infra) that Pyrrho was the first to assert the incomprehensibility of everything. If, as Sotion asserted, Xenophanes was a contemporary of Anaximander, he must have died two centuries before Pyrrho was born.