- Source
- Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0004.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:8.6.84
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-09-29
Presents the cosmological doctrines of the Pythagorean Hippasus (the periodicity of cosmic change, the finitude and constant motion of the universe), noting that he left no writings and distinguishing him from a namesake.
Ἵππασος Μεταποντῖνος καὶ αὐτὸς Πυθαγορικός. ἔφη δὲ χρόνον ὡρισμένον εἶναι τῆς τοῦ κόσμου μεταβολῆς1 καὶ πεπερασμένον εἶναι τὸ πᾶν καὶ ἀεικίνητον. Φησὶ δʼ αὐτὸν Δημήτριος ἐν Ὁμωνύμοις μηδὲν καταλιπεῖν σύγγραμμα. γεγόνασι δʼ Ἵππασοι δύο, οὗτός τε καὶ ἕτερος2 γεγραφὼς ἐν πέντε βιβλίοις Λακώνων πολιτείαν· ἦν δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς Λάκων.
Hippasus of Metapontum was likewise a Pythagorean. He said that there is a definite time for the transformation of the cosmos, and that the universe is finite and ever in motion. Demetrius says in his *Men of the Same Name* that he left behind no writing. There have been two men named Hippasus: this one, and another who wrote the *Constitution of the Lacedaemonians* in five books; and he was himself a Laconian.
- 8.6.84χρόνον ὡρισμένον εἶναι τῆς τοῦ κόσμου μεταβολῆς
The genitive phrase τῆς ... μεταβολῆς depends on the noun phrase χρόνον ὡρισμένον, denoting the reference or scope ("a definite period for the change"). The whole clause is an accusative and infinitive construction dependent on ἔφη, with χρόνον ὡρισμένον as the subject accusative.
- 8.6.84γεγόνασι δʼ Ἵππασοι δύο, οὗτός τε καὶ ἕτερος
The nominative pair οὗτός τε καὶ ἕτερος stands in partitive apposition to the grammatical subject Ἵππασοι δύο. The nominative participle γεγραφώς modifies ἕτερος, identifying the second of the two homonyms.