Seven Sages

The importance of the Seven Sages as practical politicians was emphasized by the Peripatetic Dicaearchus, one of C. s sources in the first two books the only one not active in public life was Thales of Miletus. The list of the seven varies Plato (Protagoras 343a) includes Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Solon, Qeobulus, Myson, and Chilon. 

C. uses sapiens to translate the Greek philosophos-, the model for such wise men is the Seven Sages see above, 1.12. 

As in On the Commonwealthy C. views Demetrius as similar to himself (and to the earher Seven Sages) in blending practical knowledge and theoretic analysis. 

THALES of MILETUS (seventh—sixth century). One of the Seven Sages and the first known natural philosopher. He is credited with being the first to explain eclipses (28 May 585) and the first creator of a celestial globe. 

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A pledged sisterhood of female friends, jin-shei represents a lifetime of commitment binding and holy. This is the story of seven jin-shei sisters the Warrior, an orphan who will do anything to protect her chosen family the Poet, who extracts a deathbed promise that alters the history of an empire the Scholar, who is led into a world of dark secrets and alchemy the Sage, who holds a position of honour in the temple the Healer, confidant to the Empress and Empress Liudan, whose quest for immortality holds the power to destroy them all... 

This black Earth, which emerges out of the Water of the Deluge, is the Ravenshead of the Alchemists the Toad which eats up the Eagle or Spirit our philosophical Saturn which swallows the Moon and retains it in its belly the Earth of the Sages which eagerly swallows the Golden Rain. In brief, it is our Laton, which is washed and must be baptized seven times in the Jordan. 

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