[1023]. Inserting τὸν δ’ ἀέρα κρατεῖν τοῦ παντός, as suggested by Roeper.
[1024]. Aet. i. 7, 4 = Stob. i. 56 (R. P. 217 a).
[1025]. Aet. ii. 1, 3.
[1026]. Windelband, § 25. The period is well described by Fredrich, Hippokratische Untersuchungen, pp. 130 sqq. It can only be treated fully in connexion with the Sophists.
[1027]. For an amusing picture of the Herakleiteans see Plato, Tht. 179 e. The new interest in language, which the study of rhetoric had called into life, took with them the form of fantastic and arbitrary etymologising, such as is satirised in Plato’s Cratylus.
[1028]. Arist. Met. Γ, 5. 1010 a 12. He refused even to speak, we are told, and only moved his finger.
[1029]. Sext. adv. Math. vii. 65 (R. P. 235); M.X.G. 979 a 13 (R. P. 236).