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doxographer|dɒkˈsɒgrəfə(r)|
[f. mod.L. doxographus (Diels 1879), f. Gr. δόξα opinion + -γραϕος writer: see -er1.]
A writer who collects and records the opinions or placita of the Greek philosophers. Hence doxoˈgraphic, doxoˈgraphical adjs., of or pertaining to the doxographers; doˈxography, a collection of philosophical opinions.
1892J. Burnet Early Greek Philos. 371 By the term doxographers we understand all those writers who relate the opinions of the Greek philosophers. Ibid. 374 The doxography [of the Lucullus] has come through the hands of Kleitomachus. Ibid. 375 Short doxographical summaries are to be found in Eusebios [etc.]. 1908J. Adam Relig. Teachers of Greece xiii. 267 We have doxographical testimony to show that Diogenes pronounced the soul to be imperishable. Ibid. 268 The doxographers sometimes ascribe to him [sc. Democritus] the doctrine of a single world-soul or Deity identical..with the aggregate of fiery atoms in the world. 1919Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 180 The Greek doxographers know of no astronomer before Thales. 1937Mind XLVI. 248 Nor was he..blind to the possibility that doxographic statements going back to Theophrastus may sometimes originate in an Aristotelian misconception or misrepresentation. 1952Jrnl. Theol. Stud. III. 123 The problem how far [Basil] knew the philosophers from their actual works and how far he was dependent on anthologies and doxographical manuals. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. x. 239 We have only fragments and the sayings of doxographers, indirectly and poorly transmitted. Ibid., Doxographic books of the latter [sc. Theophrastos] are known only indirectly through later extracts. Ibid. xii. 327 We really need a new critical edition of all the Ctesias fragments and of the doxography relative to him. |