[641]. Theophr. de sens. 26.
[642]. The definition is quoted from Gorgias in Plato, Men. 76 d 4. All our MSS. have ἀπορραοὶ σχημάτων, but Ven. T has in the margin γρ. χρημάτων, which may well be an old tradition. The Ionic for “things” is χρήματα. See Diels, Empedokles und Gorgias, p. 439.
[643]. See Beare, Elementary Cognition, p. 18.
[644]. Arist. de An. Γ, 3. 427 a 21.
[645]. R. P. 178 a. This was the characteristic doctrine of the Sicilian school, from whom it passed to Aristotle and the Stoics. Plato and Hippokrates, on the other hand, adopted the view of Alkmaion ([§ 97]) that the brain was the seat of consciousness. Kritias (Arist. de An. Α, 2. 405 b 6) probably got the Sicilian doctrine from Gorgias. At a later date, Philistion of Syracuse, Plato’s friend, substituted the ψυχικὸν πνεῦμα (“animal spirits”) which circulated along with the blood.
[646]. Beare, p. 253.
CHAPTER VI
ANAXAGORAS OF KLAZOMENAI
Date.
120. All that Apollodoros tells us with regard to the date of Anaxagoras seems to rest upon the authority of Demetrios Phalereus, who said of him, in the Register of Archons, that he began to study philosophy, at the age of twenty, in the archonship of Kallias or Kalliades at Athens (480-79 B.C.).[[647]] This date was probably derived from a calculation based upon the philosopher’s age at the time of his trial, which Demetrios had every opportunity of learning from sources no longer extant. Apollodoros inferred that Anaxagoras was born in Ol. LXX. (500-496 B.C.), and he adds that he died at the age of seventy-two in Ol. LXXXVIII. 1 (428-27 B.C.).[[648]] He doubtless thought it natural that he should not survive Perikles, and still more natural that he should die the year Plato was born.[[649]] We have a further statement, of doubtful origin, but probably due to Demetrios also, that Anaxagoras lived at Athens for thirty years. This may be a genuine tradition;[[650]] and if so, we get from about 462 to 432 B.C. as the time he lived there.