[Footnote 44: That is, of course, Zoroaster. The account here given of his doctrines does not agree with what we know of them from other sources. The minimum date for his activity (700 B.C.) makes it impossible for him to have been a contemporary of Pythagoras. See the translator’s _Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity_, I, p. 126; II, p. 232.]
[Footnote 45: Reading with Roeper τὴν κόσμου φύσιν καὶ. Cruice has τὸν κόσμον φύσιν κατὰ, “that the cosmos is a nature according to,” etc.]
[Footnote 46: δαίμονες, spirits or dæmons in the Greek sense, not necessarily evil. But Aetius, _de Placit. Philosoph. ap._ Diels _Doxogr._ 306, makes Pythagoras use the word as equivalent to τὸ κακόν. Cf. pp. 52, 92 _infra_.]
[Footnote 47: Hippolytus like nearly every other writer of his time here confuses the Egyptians with the Alexandrian Greeks. It was these last and not the subjects of the Pharaohs who were given to mathematics and geometry, of which sciences they laid the foundations on which we have since built. Certain devotees of the Alexandrian god Serapis also shut themselves up in cells of the Serapeum, which they could hardly have done in any temple in Pharaonic times. See _Forerunners_, I, 79. Hippolytus gives a much more elaborate and detailed account of Pythagorean teaching in Book VI, II, pp. 20 ff. _infra_.]
[Footnote 48: Diog. Laert., VIII, _vit. Heraclit._, c. 6, attributes this opinion to Heraclitus.]
[Footnote 49: This verse appears in Diog. Laert., VIII, _vit. Empedocles_, c. 6.]
[Footnote 50: So Diog. Laert., _ubi. cit._]
[Footnote 51: This sentence seems to have got out of place. It should probably follow that on Lysis and Archippus, etc., on the last page. The story of the shield is told by Diog. Laert., VIII, _vit. Pyth._, c. 4, and by Ovid, _Metamorph._, XV, 162 ff. For more about Empedocles see Book VII, II, pp. 82 ff. _infra_.]
[Footnote 52: Diog. Laert., VIII, _vit. Heraclit._, from whom Hippolytus is probably quoting, says that in his boyhood, Heraclitus used to say, he knew nothing, in his manhood everything. Has Hippolytus garbled this?]
[Footnote 53: There is nothing of this in what Hippolytus, Diogenes Laertius or any other author extant gives as Empedocles’ opinions. τὰ κακά seems to be equivalent to δαίμονες, as suggested in n. on p. 39 _supra_. Hippolytus returns to Heraclitus’ opinions in Book IX, II, pp. 119 ff. _infra_.]