Note 923 — Chapter IX · LEUKIPPOS OF MILETOS

Diog. ix. 41 (R. P. 187). As Diels points out, the statement suggests that Anaxagoras was dead when Demokritos wrote. It is probable, too, that it was this which made Apollodoros fix the floruit of Demokritos just forty years after that of Anaxagoras (Jacoby, p. 290). We cannot make much of the other statement of Demokritos that he wrote the Μικρὸς διάκοσμος 750 years after the fall of Troy; for we cannot be sure what era he used (Jacoby, p. 292).