definition of them, for that there was no certain knowledge of them.
IV. Apollodorus states that he flourished about the eighty-fourth olympiad.
LIFE OF ZENO, THE ELEATIC.
I. Zeno was a native of Velia. Apollodorus, in his Chronicles, says that he was by nature the son of Teleutagoras, but by adoption the son of Parmenides.
II. Timon speaks thus of him and Melissus:—
And Zeno had been a pupil of Parmenides, and had been on other accounts greatly attached to him.
III. He was a tall man, as Plato tells us in his Parmenides, and the same writer, in his Phædrus, calls him also the Eleatic Palamedes.
IV. Aristotle, in his Sophist, says that he was the inventor of dialectics, as Empedocles was of rhetoric. And he was a man of the greatest nobleness of spirit, both in philosophy and in politics. There are also many books extant, which are attributed to him, full of great learning and wisdom.
V. He, wishing to put an end to the