Gordon Clark: Selection from Early Greek Philosophy

The Preface to this book notes that Clark has translated portions of material by Democritus had had "not hitherto been available in English." In other anthologies, Clark sometimes wrote introductory material (Readings in Ethics) and/or footnotes in which he provided some insight into the author (Selections from Hellenistic Philosophy). Such is not the case here. The footnotes in the Democritus section may not even have been written by Clark (see footnote 16 below, in which Clark is referred to in the third person). However, for the sake of completeness, I will include the footnotes to the section on Democritus. Normally, I would also include the section in the main body of translated material to which the footnotes refer, but since they do not appear to illuminate any of Clark's own thought - again, assuming Clark even wrote the footnotes in the first place - I will pass over on that unless someone wishes to know about one or more of them in the comment section.

1934. [Translations of the Democritean material]. In Selection from Early Greek Philosophy. Milton C. Nahm, ed. New York: F.S. Crofts and Company.

Footnote 16: The translation of Democritus, except where otherwise noted, it the work of Dr. Gordon H. Clark. Professor Isaac Husik graciously revised a large number of paragraphs.

Footnote 17: Translated by R. D. Hicks, op. cit. Reprinted by permission if the publishers and the Loeb Classical Library.

Footnote 18: There follows in Diogenes Laertius' account a long list of Democritus' writings. These were arranged by Thrasylus. Pythagoras, The Great Diacosmos, Geometrica, and Concerning Homer are perhaps the most important of the works listed.

Footnote 19: Cf. Epicurus, Epicurea I. 55, ed. by H. Usener (Leipzig, Teubner, 1887), pp. 12, 15.

Footnote 20: Diels, op. cit., has quoted material Cicero attributes to Strato, not Democritus. A line or two above we find the following reported of Democritus.

Footnote 21: Cf. Lucretius, de Rerum Natura IV. 800.

Footnote 22: The translation is from George Malcom Stratton's Theophrastus and the Greek Physiological Psychology Before Aristotle (New York, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1917), pp. 109 et seq. Stratton uses angular brackets, <>, to indicate where translation is non-literal.

Footnote 23: Words enclosed in parentheses are context; words not so enclosed are quotation.

Footnote 24: Nothing verbatim in 12, 14, 15, 26, 34.

Footnote 25: The translation of these short fragments was taken from the hand written notes of the late Professor William Romaine Newbold.

Footnote 26: The remainder are all from Stobaeus.