Note 1036 — Chapter VII · MINOR PHILOSOPHERS, CONTEMPORARIES OR SUCCESSORS OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLE

Cf. Porphyry De abstin. iv. 1. 2; Mueller, F.H.G., II, 233. His Βίος Ἑλλάδοσς was a history of the degeneration of Greek civilization from the primitive ideal. Cf. Poehlmann, op. cit., I, 109 and n. 1, on his influence on Rousseau, who refers to him. Cf. ibid., n. 2, for a similar idea of a golden age in Theoc. xii. 15.