Return of the Circulating Gift to Thales

Notes

1. 3.1ἀνώλισθεν — Third-person singular aorist of the verb ἀνολισθάνω (to slip back, glide back). Here it expresses the intransitive movement of the gift "returning" to Thales after circulating among the sages.
2. 3.1ἐς Θάλητ’ — The preposition ἐς (variant of εἰς) followed by the accusative singular of the proper name Θάλης (Thales), which is Θάλητα, with its final short vowel -a elided before the initial vowel of the following verb.