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. 2
2. (From a work entitled 'Nomenclature of Tribes': mention of a tribe called Spartoi).
3. (List of victors at Olympia).
4. (From a work entitled 'Collection': Thargêlia of Miletus distinguished for beauty and wisdom, was married fourteen times).
5. (Title: 'Trojan Dialogue').
From unspecified writings
6. Some of these things may have been said by Orpheus some by Musaeus, briefly in different places, some by Hesiod and Homer, others by others of the poets, some in the prose writings of the Greeks. I have put together the most important and homogeneous of these, and shall make this speech of mine something new and variegated.
7. (Thales gave even inanimate objects a soul).
8. (The continents Asia and Europe are called after two daughters of Ocean).
9. (The word 'tyrant' came into force later than Homer, who uses it to mean 'king').
10. (Shortened form of 'deposit').
11. (Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, was warlike and experienced in many campaigns).
12. (Mamercus, brother of Stesichorus the poet, acquired a reputation for geometry).
13. (There are seven Hyades).
14. (The stepmother of Phrixus was called Gorgôpis).
15. (There was an Ephyra at Elis). 1
16. (There are two sorts of envy, one right, when one envies the bad who are honoured, one wrong, when one envies the good.
21. (Proclus, Commentary in Euclid: the quadratrices of Nicomedes and Hippias).
142:2 See Companion, pp. 385-8.
143:1 i.e. as well as the Ephyra mentioned by Pindar, Nem. VII, who gave her name to a district of Corinth; and another unspecified. Cp. ch. 3 (Epimenides), Frg. 13.