^{page 188 note 1} Bernays, v., Theophrastos' Schrift ütber Frömmigkeit, 8 ffGoogle Scholar. Hermarchus' work on Empedocles is mentioned in Diog. Laert. X. 25: 'ɛπιοστολικ⋯ περ⋯ 'ɛμπεδοκλ⋯ους ε⋯κοσι κα⋯ δὑο.

^{page 188 note 2} The pagination is that of Nauck's edition, Teubner, 1886.

^{page 188 note 3} There is a slight anacolouthon here in the Greek, due to the length of the sentence (from διαμνημονεὑοντες p. 92. 18 to εἰρημ⋯νων p. 93, 7, broken up by the parenthesis οὑ μ⋯νον δ⋯ …παραγιγομ⋯νους). I have retained this anacolouthon in the paraphrase.

^{page 189 note 1} Cf. also c. 9, p. 91, 22 ff.

^{page 189 note 2} γενεαλογ⋯α means, of coarse, the ‘tracing of a pedigree’ and so the mere fact that the ‘pedigree’ extended over a long period of time does not give us a γενεαλογ⋯α μακρ⋯.

^{page 190 note 1} It is not an objection against our text that we first change from the indirect to the direct narrative with an explanatory sentence introduced by γ⋯ρ: exactly the same thing occurs, if we keep the traditional text. In either text Porphyry begins to quote Hermarchus in the direct speech at the earliest possible moment: he could not easily begin with the οὐ μ⋯… sentence, for this is strictly parallel to the τ⋯χα μ⋯… clause, which must inevitably be in indirect speech, if we are to begin with indirect speech at all.