The First Philosophers of Greece (London: K. Paul, Trench,
Trubner, 1898)  Arthur Fairbanks editor and translator  Hanover
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Fragments of Parmenides Concerning Truth Concerning Opinions
Passages relating to Parmenides in Plato and Aristotle Passages
relating to Parmenides in the Doxographists List of
Abbreviations   [Page 86]    PARMENIDES, the son of Pyres (or
Pyrrhes), of Elea, was born about 515 B.C.; his family was of
noble rank and rich, but Parmenides devoted himself to
philosophy. He was associated with members of the Pythagorean
society, and is himself called a Pythagorean by later writers.
In the formation of his philosophic system however he was most
influenced by his aged fellow-townsman, Xenophanes; the
doctrines of Xenophanes he developed into a system which was
embodied in a poetic work 'On Nature.' The statement th