Derision of gentile philosophers: Index of footnotes

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p. xiv

1. Page 193, line 5. rebellion of the angels] This opinion was held by many other philosophers, and is refuted by Cleme[...]
2. Line 10. Heraclitus] The editors think these names of the philosophers were originally side-notes, and have been cop[...]

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p. 194

3. Page 194, line 9. three thousand years] In allusion to Plato's views about the three periods of three thousand years[...]
4. Line 21. a fish] Empedocles and Plato seem to be here meant. See Tertullian de Anima, xxxii, and Plato's Timaeus, sub fin.

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p. 195

5. Page 195, line 22. Empedocles] It is said that Empedocles, in order that he might utterly disappear from the sight o[...]

p. 196

6. Page 196, line 2. elder] tw|~ presbute/rw| tw~n 'Iw&nwn.

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7. Line 28. Jupiter and Tellus, &c.] In Greek Zeus, Chthonia, and Kronos: we use the equivalent names of the correspond[...]
8. Line 35. empty] The doctrine of the plenum and the vacuum, as it is generally termed. I prefer the plain English wor[...]

p. 197

9. Page 197, line 6. Epicurus] The reader must be told that the doctrine of unrestrained enjoyment was promulgated, not[...]

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10. Line 11. Cleanthes] the successor of Zeno as head of the stoic school, famous for his sobriety -- a water-drinker.

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p. 198

11. Page 198, line 7. triangle, &c.] Here is some omission or corruption in the Greek. Worth, the Oxford editor of Herm[...]

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p. 199

12. Page 199, line 1. endless worlds] The ancients were not wholly without a knowledge of the wonders of astronomy, and [...]