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 HIPPOCRArES.-ANAXAGORAS. 371 belonged to the divine class of phenomena, in which human re- search was insane, fruitless, and impious. 1 On the other hand, Hippocrates, the contemporary of Socrates, denied the discrepancy, and merged into one those two classes of phenomena, the divine and the scientifically determinable, which the latter had put asunder. Hippocrates treated all phe- nomena as at once both divine and scientifically determinable. In discussing certain peculiar bodily disorders found among the Scythians, he observes, " The Scythians themselves ascribe the cause of this to God, and reverence and bow down to such suf- ferers, each man fearing that he may suffer the like ; and I my- self think too that these affections, as well as all others, are di- vine : no one among them is either more divine or more human than another, but all are on the same footing, and all divine ; nev- ertheless each of them has its own physical conditions, and not one occurs without such physical conditions." 2 1 Xenoph. Memor. i. 1, 6-9. TapEv avaynaia (Sw/cpu-nyf ) rj TrpoadEiff&ai TEKTOVIKOV uev yap ij Tfa^.KEVTiKov fi yeupymbv ?/ uv&puTruv apxwdv, % TUV TOIOVTUV spyuv i^ETaa-, f/ hoyiGTiicdv, 7) olnovofiiKdv, TJ arparriyiKov yevfadai, navra TU ToiafTa, rifiaTa. KOI av&puTrov jvuftij a/perea, tvopi&v elvai TU 6e fiE-yiara TUV iv d>r/ roif #eot)f E avToif KaraActTrecrt^at, uv oidEV Sfj'Xov flvat rotf dvi9pcj7rotf Toi)f <5e fir)6ev TUV TOIOVTUV olofievovr Elvai datfioviov, uM^u TTUITO r^f uvdpumvi]? yvufirjf, daifiovav <pr) daiftovpv 6e Kai roi)f uavTEvoffEvovf a rotf uv&puTrotc Idunav oi deal iia&ovai diaicpiveiv. "E07/ rfe Sflv. a, ftev jj.a&6vTa^ TTOIEIV iduKav oi &EOI, fiav&avEiv a de: JJ.TJ 6fi?*a TOif uv&puTTOtg son, nEipda&ai Siu pavTiKTis irapa TUV -&EUV mi- duv<r&ai Toi)f i9eot)f yap, olf uv uaiv I%EU, arjuaiveiv. Compare also Memorab. iv. 7. 7 ; and Cyropaed. i. 6, 3, 23-46. Physical and astronomical phenomena are classified by Socrates among the divine class, interdicted to human study (Memor. i. 1, 13) : TU dfla or 6ai/j.6via as supposed to Tuv&puTTEia. Plato (Phileb. c. 16 ; Legg. x. p. 886- 889 ; xii. p. 967) held the sun and stars to be gods, each animated vith its special soul : he allowed astronomical investigation to the extent necessary for avoiding blasphemy respecting these beings fisxp 1 Toi > M ft^atr^jjfielv Trept avTa (YI'I. 821 ). ed. Petersen) : 'Eri re irpbf TOVTEOIOI svvovxiat yiyvovTai ol irfaloToi h t, Kai yvvaKTiia Epyat,ovTai nal uf al ywaiKEf diateyovTai re dfioiuf TE oi TOIOVTOI uvavtioiEir. Oi ftsv oiiv kirixupioi Tr)v aniifv npoe
 * Hippocrates, De Afire, Locis et Aquis, c. 22 Cp. 78, ed. Littre, sect. 106