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 Rh fleet in 441/0 B.C.; and it was no doubt for this reason that Apollodoros fixed his floruit in Ol. LXXXIV. (444-41 B.C.). Beyond this, we really know nothing about his life. He is said to have been, like Zeno, a disciple of Parmenides; but, as he was a Samian, it is possible that he was originally a member of the Ionic school, and we shall see that certain features of his doctrine tend to bear out this view. On the other hand, he was certainly convinced by the Eleatic dialectic, and renounced the Ionic doctrine in so far as it was inconsistent with that. We note here the effect of the increased facility of intercourse between East and West, which was secured by the supremacy of Athens.

165. The fragments which we have come from Simplicius, and are given, with the exception of the first, from the text of Diels.

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