Note 290 — PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. (continued 3)
Francis Adams translation
Ibid. These opinions regarding the elements and the first matter are expressed with much precision and clearness; but, in other parts of his Timæus, it must be admitted that he betrays some confusion of ideas on this subject, as is remarked by his illustrious pupil Aristotle (De Ortu et Interitu, ii., 1). A translation of part of Plato’s Timæus regarding the elements, may be seen in the Somnium Scipionis of Macrobius, lib. i.