{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/app/app15.htm","path":"cla/app/app15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/app/app15.htm","text":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, [1948]\nAnaximenes Of Mil\u00eatus was in his prime about 546 B.C.\nHe wrote one book, in 'simple and unextravagant Ionic'. One whole sentence only has survived.\n1. (Paraphrase containing the word) Loose. (= rare).\n2. As our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air surround the whole universe.\n2a. (The sun is broad) like a leaf.\n(Spurious)\n3. Air is near to the incorporeal; and since we come into being by an efflux from this (air), it is bound to be both non-limited and rich so that it never fails.","title":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 13. Anaximenes of Mil\u00eatus","type":"page"}