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[41] ‘Men fail in comprehension before they have heard the Word and at first even after they have heard it.... Other men do not observe what they do when they are awake, just as they forget what they do when asleep’ Fr. 2 B, 1 D.
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[45] See Gladisch, Herakleitos und Zoroaster; Ueberweg, Grundriss, p. 39; above, § 13.
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[45a] Gladisch traces this dualism in Heraclitus under the names of Zeus and Hades (see his p. 26, note 39).
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[45b] Clem. Strom. i 14; Suidas, s. v. Herakleitos. (Gladisch, pp. 65, 75).
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[48] ‘Half professor and half journalist—this is the best formula that we can devise to characterise the sophist of the 5th century B.C.’ Gomperz, i p. 414.
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[49] See below, §§ 124, 130, and 131.
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[56] Arist. Phys. viii 1; and see below, § 173.
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[60] Cic. Ac. i 4, 15; Tusc. disp. v 4, 10.
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[63] Xen. Mem. iv 6, 1; Epict. Disc. i 7, 11.
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[64] Xen. Mem. iv 5, 12; Arist. Met. xiii 4.
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[65] Xen. Mem. iv 7, 10. The Socratic μαντική must not be taken too seriously; it is only one of many tentative suggestions for explaining the process of reasoning, akin to our modern use of the term ‘genius’ in connexion with achievements in poetry and art.
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[66] Plato, Phaedo, p. 97 c. The passage gives the impression of a real reminiscence; at the same time its recognition as such implies that Socrates was not consistent in disregarding all physical speculations.
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[69]ib. i 4, 9, and iv 3, 14; Cic. N. D. ii 6, 18.
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[75] οὐδεὶς ἑκὼν ἁμαρτάνει; see Plato Prot. p. 345 D, Apol. p. 25, Xen. Mem. iv 2, 20. No one is willingly ignorant, and no one does evil for any other reason than that he is ignorant of the good.
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[76] In accepting generally the statements of Xenophon as to the religious and practical teaching of Socrates I am glad to find myself in agreement with Adam; Gomperz on the other hand is more sceptical. It should however always be realized that Socrates himself veiled his positive opinions under the form of suggestions and working hypotheses or ‘divinations.’

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Roman Stoicism being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire, Project Gutenberg eBook #64488

CHAPTER II. HERACLITUS AND SOCRATES. CHAPTER III. THE ACADEMY AND THE PORCH.