{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/app/app31.htm","path":"cla/app/app31.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/app/app31.htm","text":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, [1948]\nI\u00f4n of Chios was active between 452 and 421 B.C.\nHe wrote tragedies, lyrics and other poems; also a philosophical work in prose called Triagmos ('Triad') or Triagmoi.\n1. The beginning of my work is: everything is Three and nothing more or less than these three. The virtue of each thing is a Triad: intelligence, strength, luck.\n2. (Pythagoras ascribed some of his writings to Orpheus).\n3. Luck, that differs greatly from Art, creates many things that are like it.\n3a. (The twenty-fifth letter is called Agma).\n3b. (Of men) agreeing in their views and sharing the same libations.\n4. Thus Pherecydes, who was outstanding in manliness and reverence, even after death has a joyful life for his soul, if the wise Pythagoras had insight concerning all men and knew (them) thoroughly.\nDubious fragment\n5. Eleven-stringed lyre, which hast a ten-intervalled range, for a triple melodious way of harmony, before thee the Hellenes used to play a lyre of seven strings with (only) a tetrachord, creating a thin music!","title":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 26. I\u00f4n of Chios","type":"page"}