The Philosophical Review/Volume 1/Summary: Diels - Neue Fragmente des Xenophanes und Hippon

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Neue Fragmente des Xenophanes und Hippon. Diels. Ar. f. G. Phil., Bd. IV, 4, pp. 652, 653.

Scholia of the Geneva Ilias, formerly in possession of H. Stephanas, and this year for the first time published, contain a quotation from Xenophanes' work περὶ φύσεως. It is quoted by Krates of Mallos as a parallel to Homer Il. Φ. 195, and is as follows:

πηγὴ δ' ἐστι θάλασσ' ὕδατος, πηγὴ δ' ἀνέμοιο
οὔτε γὰρ ἐν νέφεσι (πνοιαί κ' ἀνέμοιο φύοιντο
ἐκπνείοντος) ἔσωθεν ἄνευ πόντου μεγάλοιο
οὔτε ῥοαὶ ποταμῶν οὔτ' αἰθέρος ὄμβριον ἵδωρ
ἀλλὰ μέγας πόντος γενέτωρ νεφέων ἀνέμων τε
καὶ ποταμῶν. (Schol. Genev. I, 199, 2 ff.)

The lacuna in lines 2 and 3 is filled out by Diels.

The fragment of Hippon quoted by Krates as a parallel to the same passage of the Ilias is valuable chiefly as a justification of the "φορτικόν" of Aristotle.