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Diogenous Laertiou Peri biōn, dogmatōn kai apophthegmatōn tōn en philosophia eudokimēsantōn biblia 10 : = Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatis et apophthegmatis clarorum philosophorum, libri X. Hesychii Milesii Illustrii, de iisdem philosophis et de aliis scriptoribus liber. Pythagoreorum philosophorum fragmenta. Omnia Graece et Lat. ex editione II. Isaaci Casauboni notae ad libros Diogenis, multo auctiores et emendatiores
English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.
The work in question is a 1593 Latin edition of Diogenes Laertius' 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers'. Diogenes Laertius originally wrote this work in Greek. While numerous English translations of the Greek original exist (such as those by C.D. Yonge, Pamela Mensch, and others found in the search results), there is no evidence of a translation into English specifically from the 1593 Latin text. Therefore, this is a 'first from source' case, as the existing English translations are derived from the Greek original, not the Latin version.
The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius. Literally translated by C.D. Yonge, trans. C.D. Yonge (1909) [complete] source
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, trans. Pamela Mensch (2020) [complete] source
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Diogenes Laertius delivers the definitive gossip and intellectual history of the ancient world. You will discover why the greatest minds in history spent their lives fighting for truth, dodging tyrants, and insulting their rivals.