Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet, with Burnet's notes
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From Burnet's Note on the Sources

20. "Diogenes Laertius"
The work which goes by the name of Laertios Diogenes is, in its biographical parts, a mere patchwork of all earlier learning. It has not been digested or composed by any single mind at all, but is little more than a collection of extracts made at haphazard. But, of course, it contains much that is of the greatest value.







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