ON CERTAIN FRAGMENTS OF THE PRE-SOCRATICS : 



CRITICAL NOTES AND ELUCIDATIONS. 



Bv William Arthur Heidkl. 

 Presented April D. Received February 28, 1913. 



The collection of notes here presented owes its origin to a request 

 for suggestions from Professor Hermann Diels when he was engaged 

 in revising Die Fragmcntc dcr lorsohratihcr for the third e(Htion, since 

 puhhshed (1912). In response to his courteous invitation I sent, 

 together with a li.st of errors noted in the second edition, a number of 

 proposals for the emendation of texts and the interpretation of doubt- 

 ful passages. Had I then had the requisite leisure it would have been 

 my duty to explain and defend my suggestions; since that was im- 

 possible, the notes then submitted were in effect mere marginalia, to 

 notice which as fully as Professor Diels has done required uncommon 

 courtesy. To be permitted to contribute even in a small measure to 

 so excellent an instrument of scholarship is an honor not lightly to 

 be esteemed. The renewal of certain suggestions previously made 

 but not accepted l)y Professor Diels is due solely to the desire to enalde 

 him and other scholars to judge of their merits when the case for them 

 is properly presented; others, in the correctness of which I still have 

 confidence, are here left unnoticed because, as referred to in the third 

 edition, they are already recorded and bear on their face such creden- 

 tials as are necessary for a proper estimate of their claims. But I here 

 present for the first time a considerable number of proposed readings 

 and interpretations, the importance of which, if approved by the 

 judgment of competent scholars, must be at once apparent to the 

 historian of Greek thought. If it were customary to dedicate such 

 studies, I should' dedicate these notes to my honored teacher and 

 friend, Professor Diels, to whom I owe more for instiiiction and 

 inspiration during a Cjuarter of a century than I can hope to repay. 

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