Hippasus's Life

I. Hippasus was a citizen of Metapontum, and a pupil of Pythagoras.

I. Hippasus was a citizen of Metapontum and a student of Pythagoras.

II. He used to say that the time of the changes of the world was definite, and that the universe also was finite, and in a state of perpetual motion.

II. He said that the world changed at fixed times. He also said that the universe was finite and in constant motion.

III. Demetrius, in his treatise on People of the same Name, says that he left no writings behind him.

III. Demetrius says in his work People of the same Name that he left no writings behind.

IV. There were two people of the name of Hippasus; this man, and another who wrote an account of the Constitution of the Lacedæmonians, in five books. And he was himself a Lacedæmonian.

IV. There were two people named Hippasus. One was this man. The other wrote a five-book account of the Constitution of the Lacedæmonians. He was himself a Lacedæmonian.