Thales primum aquam putavit omnium rerum esse principium; Heraclitus Ephesius, qui propter obscuritatem scriptorum a Graecis scoteinos est appellatus, ignem; Democritus quique est eum secutus Epicurus atomos, quas nostri insecabilia corpora, nonnulli individua vocitaverunt; Pythagoreorum vero disciplina adiecit ad aquam et ignem aera et terrenum.
First, Thales thought that water was the principle of all things. Heraclitus of Ephesus (who because of the obscurity of his writings was called Dark by the Greeks), fire; Democritus, and Epicurus who followed him, atoms, which our writers have called unbreakables, some indivisibles. But the school of the Pythagoreans added air and the earthy to water and fire.
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