[1003]. Simplicius says Πρὸς φυσιολόγους, but he adds that Diogenes called them σοφισταί, which is the older word. This is, so far, in favour of the genuineness of the work.
[1004]. Diels gives this as fr. 6 (Vors. p. 350). I have omitted it, as it really belongs to the history of Medicine.
[1005]. The MSS. of Simplicius have ἔθος, not θεός; but I adopt Usener’s certain correction. It is confirmed by the statement of Theophrastos, that the air within us is “a small portion of the god” (de Sens. 42); and by Philodemos (Dox. p. 536), where we read that Diogenes praises Homer, τὸν ἀέρα γὰρ αὐτὸν Δία νομίζειν φησίν, ἐπειδὴ πᾶν εἰδέναι τὸν Δία λέγει (cf. Cic. Nat. D. i. 12, 29).
[1006]. The MSS. of Simplicius have τῷ δέ, but surely the Aldine τῶν δέ is right.
[1007]. Arist. Hist. An. Γ, 2. 511 b 30.
[1008]. See Weygoldt, “Zu Diogenes von Apollonia” (Arch. i. pp. 161 sqq.). Hippokrates himself represented just the opposite tendency to that of those writers. His great achievement was the separation of medicine from philosophy, a separation most beneficial to both (Celsus, i. pr.). This is why the Hippokratean corpus contains some works in which the “sophists” are denounced and others in which their writings are pillaged. To the latter class belong the Περὶ διαίτης and the Περὶ φυσῶν; to the former, especially the Περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰατρικῆς.
[1009]. See Chap. VI. p. 292, [n. 657].
[1010]. Censorinus, de die natali, 6, 1 (Dox. p. 190).
[1011]. On the “measures” see Chap. III. [§ 72].
[1012]. Theophr. ap. Alex. in Meteor. p. 67, 1 (Dox. p. 494).