ANAXAGORE. Anaxagoras (c. 500-428 B.C.) was born in Clazomenae in Ionia and went to Athens about 460 B.C., where he became one of Pericles's tutors. His book On Nature was the first on solar eclipses; he held that Mind was the animating principle in the cosmic universe. During the war with Sparta Anaxagoras was charged for holding impious doctrines; since he had explained solar eclipses, they lost their religious significance. He was fined and left Athens for Lampsacus, where he established a school (Diogenes Laertius, II.7).

Lady Philosophy tells Boece that, if he does not know about Anaxagore's exile, of Socrates's poisoning, or of Zeno's torture, he has certainly heard of men like the followers of Seneca and of Canius, and of Soranus, Bo I, Prosa 3.53-59. [Canyus: Senec: Socrates: Soranas: Zeno]

The form is the French variant, found in Jean de Meun's translation.