Dialogue

1 Intro|         philosopher of the fourth century before Christ is not easily
2 Intro|           art; but from the sixth century onwards or even earlier
3 Intro|          Anaximander in the sixth century before Christ (Plut. Symp.
4 Intro| Pythagoreans living in the fourth century B.C., there were already
5 Intro|          latter half of the fifth century B.C., after the dispersion
6 Intro|      early part of the eighteenth century, when the human mind, seeking
7 Intro|          than the eighth or ninth century B.C. It is true that Proclus,
8 Intro|     Proclus, writing in the fifth century after Christ, tells us of
9 Intro|  sixteenth, but of the nineteenth century A.D.). The commentary is