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Sacred Texts: The Classics

Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 86. Hippias of ...

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Hippias of Êlis was active in the second half of the fifth century B.C. Various writings are attributed to him, of which almost nothing survives. He was probably the discoverer of the curve called quadratrix, the construction of which is preserved in Proclus’ Commentary on Euclid.