Note 483 — Chapter IV · PARMENIDES OF ELEA
Reading edition
Plato, Symp. 195 c 1. It is implied that these παλαιὰ πράγματα were πολλὰ καὶ βίαια, including such things as ἐκτομαί and δεσμοί. The Epicurean criticism of all this is partially preserved in Philodemos, de pietate, p. 68, Gomperz; and Cicero, de nat. D. i. 28 (Dox. p. 534; R. P. 126 b).