Note 1 — Volume VI
Reading edition
Gassendi says Epicurus was neither ‘Primus nec solus qui Atomos defenderit.’ Others are Moschus—‘de quo Empiricus et Strabo etiam ante bellum Troianum’—Leucippus, Democritus, Metrodorus, Ecphantus, Pythagoreus, Empedocles, Heracleitus, Plato (qui Empedoclis instar, elementa composuit ex particulis prae exilitate inconspicuis), Xenocrates, Asclepiades, Heraclides, Diodorus, Artemidorus, Mnesitheus, alii’ (VI. 160). Truly a cloud of witnesses.