Præ-socratic

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of pre-Socratic. alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete

    "Sir Alexander then illustrates these periods by showing that in præ-Socratic Greece ethical ideas had no distinctness, but were confused with physical or even mathematical notions, as Pythagoras “ made virtue a number, and justice a cube.”"

Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of pre-Socratic. alt-of, archaic

    "I should have preferred to see him do for Polynesia what, for instance, Diels did for the præ-Socratics […]"

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