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Origination, 163

Orpheus, 133

Parmenides, 23, 62 f., 78, *86 f., 112, 120, 129, 257; fallacies of, 104; theory of sensation, 107 f., 110; theory of thought, 107; Plato on, 103

Passion, 49

Perception by pores, 230; by likes, 199

Perikles, 235, 247

Philip the Opuntian, 148

Philodemos, 7

Philolaos, 132, 148

Pisas, the, 71

Place, 146; existence of, 115; Zeno on, 117

Plants, 7, 220, 229, 251

Plato, 2, 57, 78, 103 f., 112, 133, 141, 146, 148 f., 214, 245 f., 262

Plutarch, 5, 11, 14, 21, 82, 108, 119

Polykrates, 132

Poseidon, 209

Praxiades, 13

Progress, 56

Protagoras, 116

Purifications, Empedokles on, 203

Pythagoras, 23, 29, 56, 132 f.; science of, 151

Pythagoreans, 86, 132 f.

Rainbow, 21, 69, 149, 256

Rarefaction, 9, 21, 60 f., 125

Reason, 47, 62; authority of, 83; ‘destined,’ 61; in the universe, 6

Sabinos, 81

Sacrifice, 53, 155, 209

Samian fleet, 120

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