{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">The Aristotelians judge it to be Chilon’s; but Didymus\r\nsays the advice was that of Thales. Then, next in order, the saying,\r\n“All men are bad,” or, “The most of men are bad” (for the same\r\napophthegm is expressed in two ways), Sotades the Byzantian says that\r\nit was Bias’s. And the aphorism, “Practice conquers everything,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_929\" id=\"FNanchor_929\">[929]</a>\r\nthey will have it to be Periander’s; and likewise the advice, “Know\r\nthe opportunity,” to have been a saying of Pittacus. Solon made\r\nlaws for the Athenians, Pittacus for the Mitylenians. And at a late\r\ndate, Pythagoras, the pupil of Pherecydes, first called himself a\r\nphilosopher. Accordingly, after the fore-mentioned three men, there\r\nwere three schools of philosophy, named<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_393\">[393]</span> after the places where they\r\nlived: the Italic from Pythagoras, the Ionic from Thales, the Eleatic\r\nfrom Xenophanes. Pythagoras was a Samian, the son of Mnesarchus, as\r\nHippobotus says: according to Aristoxenus, in his life of Pythagoras\r\nand Aristarchus and Theopompus, he was a Tuscan; and according to\r\nNeanthes, a Syrian or a Tyrian. So that Pythagoras was, according\r\nto the most, of barbarian extraction. Thales, too, as Leander and\r\nHerodotus relate, was a Phœnician; as some suppose, a Milesian. He\r\nalone seems to have met the prophets of the Egyptians. But no one is\r\ndescribed as his teacher, nor is any one mentioned as the teacher of\r\nPherecydes of Syros, who had Pythagoras as his pupil. But the Italic\r\nphilosophy, that of Pythagoras, grew old in Metapontum in Italy.\r\nAnaximander of Miletus, the son of Praxiades, succeeded Thales; and was\r\nhimself succeeded by Anaximenes of Miletus, the son of Eurustratus;\r\nafter whom came Anaxagoras of Clazomenæ, the son of Hegesibulus. <a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_930\" id=\"FNanchor_930\">[930]</a>\r\nHe transferred his school from Ionia to Athens. He was succeeded by\r\nArchelaus, whose pupil Socrates was.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XIV. SUCCESSION OF PHILOSOPHERS IN GREECE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_930","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-723"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9202309e6a871e727a798948fc91d8336ba54efa9add8a103092a1f9efcc5c53","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_930","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_930","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_930\" id=\"Footnote_930\">[930]</a> Or Eubulus.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_930","text_sha256":"3535c2edcf3be642accb8f486f72a0d84592600f9b0a755019ba090f190ccc22","verified":false,"work_id":null}