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Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, BOOK I, Chapter 1. THALES (floruit circa 585 B.C., the date of the eclipse)

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Chapter 1. THALES (floruit circa 585 B.C., the date of the eclipse) [22] Herodotus, Duris, and Democritus are agreed that Thales was the son of Examyas and Cleobulina, and belonged to the Thelidae1 who are Phoenicians, and among the noblest of the descendants of Cadmus and Agenor. As Plato testifies, he was one of the Seven Sages. He was the first to receive the name of Sage, in the archonship of Damasias2 at Athens, when the term was applied to all the Seven Sages, as Demetrius of Phalerum mentions in his List of Archons. He was admitted to citizenship at Miletus when he came to that town…

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