III. ENGLISH INDEX · 3

Cycles of the universe, 179, 216

Darkness as first principle, 99

Day and night, 89

Death, 45, 53, 229

Decad, 144, 152

Delphi, oracle at, 27

Demokritos, 18, 33, 248, 250, 254

Destruction of things, 10, 13, 14, 82, 93 f., 119, 124, 165, 222, 245

Diodoros, 153

Diogenes Laertios, 63, 64, 120

[310]Discord, 39

Divisibility of matter, infinite, 115

Dyad, 144, 152

Earth, the, 31, 67 f., 83;

a heavenly body, 13;

form of, 13, 14, 22, 106;

is infinite, 78;

once covered by the sea, 82;

rests on water, 3, 4;

rests on air, 20;

is sinking into the sea, 83

Earthquakes, 7, 18, 22, 261

Eclipses, 7, 15, 63, 84, 148

Ecliptic, 6

Egyptian wisdom, 154

Eleatic school, 64 f.;

unity, 79, 103, 105, 119

Elements, 41, 161, 167, 183, 221, 224;

imperishable, 169, 230;

indivisible, 142;