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- μ58Μακάρων νήσοισινin the islands of the blessed… otherwise be a baffling entry. The source cited is not Parmenides, the pre-Socratic philosopher (pi 675) but "Armendas", that is, the C5 BCE Boiotian historian Armenidas (FGrH 378 F5). By the time A. wrote, …
- χ418ΧοσρόηςChosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw… the power of rhetoric creates belief without supporting knowledge. [7] Parmenides was a disciple of one of the Ionian schools: see pi 675. The dialogue sees Socrates and Parmenides debating the existence of Platonic …
- δ39ΔαμάσκιοςDamaskios, Damascius… for Simplicius and Eulalius, pi 2251. [4] Specifically, on the Parmenides, the Phaedo, and the Philebus. [5] The Philosophical History, also known as Life of Isidore, is reconstructed from extensive quotations in the Suda …
- α101ἌβυδοςAbudos, Abydos, Abydus… correctly; cf. alpha 104. The ultimate source may be Plato, Parmenides 130D, though there too the text is uncertain: perhaps ei)/s tin' a)/buqon fluari/an (web address 1), though the alternatives include ei)/s tina bu=qon …
- ε1003ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedocles, Empedokles… [1] Plural in Philostratus. [2] Influenced by his first teacher, Parmenides, who speaks as a female through "Doxa". [3] See Wright (1981) 283. Pythagoras and his followers, including E., disapproved of animal sacrifices. The …
- α3420ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… "to be a student," see LSJ and Diogenes Laertius 9.21 (Parmenides). Philostratos does not use the term. [19] Quoted from either alpha 2245 or sigma 439. [20] Philostratos 1.14. Simonides was renowned for his …