Vitruvius, On Architecture 8, preface 1 = T 37b Kannicht

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De septem sapientibus Thales Milesius omnium rerum principium aquam est professus…Euripides, auditor Anaxagorae, quem philosophum Athenienses scaenicum appellauerunt, aera et terram…

Thales of Miletus, one of the Seven Sages, proclaimed that the principle of all matter is water…Euripides, a disciple of Anaxagoras, whom the Athenians called the philosopher of the stage, air and earth…


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