Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. A complete translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by Kathleen Freeman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press [1948] This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. The chapters are numbered as in the Fifth Edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. The numbers in brackets are those of the Fourth Edition.
Lycophrôn 'the Sophist': Fragments
Lycophrôn 'the Sophist': birthplace unknown; lived probably in the first half of the fourth century B.C.
An orator of the school of Gorgias; interested also in metaphysics, political science and politics.
1. Knowledge is an association between the act of knowing and the soul.
2. (He eliminated the verb 'is' in predication).
3. Law is a guarantor of mutual justice.
4. The beauty of high birth is hidden, its dignity merely a matter of words.
5. The varying-featured heaven of the mighty-peaked earth. The narrow-channelled shore. Xerxes, monstrous man. Sciron the ravager.