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^*NOTES.16Sphenomena from Anaxaj?oras, whose influence on Periclesand many of the thoughtful men of the time was very great.A. was called 6 yoOs, his chief doctrine being vovs ivrir bSiaKOff/Mjv re koI rdyrwv alrios. Socrates when a young manonce believed in him. See Plato, Phofdo 97 c, where S. speaksof A's physical theory with good-humoured banter. Cf. c.103, 3. According to a story in Cicero (de Rep. i. 16) andPlutarch, Per. 35, the people were alarmed at this eclipse,and Pericles explained it after Anaxagoras. I^ivc—this chapter corrects, while it ignores, the current superstitionsabout eclipses. Herod, i. 74 tells a similar tale ofThales. ytv6^(vo% Kal kK^avivrttv—see c. 4, 4. i^rripmv—Mars and Venus.39, 1. <strong>II</strong>vO^o)— Ionic gen. of Tlvditi. Cf. Ttj/j^w below.ti\t—so. 7i'vat»fo. Cf. Andoc. I. 50 is ^« ami -njp i.5tK

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