| 1. Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, 4.10 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 697 |
| 2. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 52, 28 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 698 |
3. Plutarch, On Tranquility of Mind, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 695 | 466d. Each friend that comes annoys, that goes affronts, as Ion has it. But later, when the disease is over and a sounder disposition supervenes, health returns and makes everything pleasant and agreeable: he that yesterday loathed eggs and delicate cakes and fine bread toâday eats eagerly and willingly of a coarse loaf with olives and water-cress. Such contentment and change of view toward every kind of life is created by reason when it has been engendered within us. Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?" |
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4. Plutarch, On Moral Virtue, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 696 | 446b. are also those famous lines: I, like some ship, am tied by ropes to shore, And when winds blow, our cables do not hold. For here the poet calls "cables" the judgements which resist shameful conduct and then are broken by passion, as by a great gust of wind. Truly the intemperate man is swept along to his pleasures by his desires with sails full-spread and delivers himself over to them and steers his course directly thither; whereas the course of the incontinent man zigzags here and there, as he strives to emerge from his passion and to stave it off and is yet swept down and shipwrecked on the reef of shameful conduct. Just as Timon used to lampoon Anaxarchus: The Cynic might of Anaxarchus seemed Steadfast and bold, wherever he wished, to spring; Well did he know the truth, they said, and yet |
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| 5. Plutarch, Sayings of Kings And Commanders, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 696 |
| 6. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 7.87-7.88 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 695 |
| 7. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 696 |
| 8. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 1.64.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 680, 697 |
| 9. Aelian, Varia Historia, 4.14 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 697 |
10. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 9.6, 9.59, 9.63 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 680, 681, 695, 696, 698 | 9.6. This book he dedicated in the sanctuary of Artemis and, according to some, he deliberately made it the more obscure in order that none but adepts should approach it, and lest familiarity should breed contempt. of our philosopher Timon gives a sketch in these words:In their midst uprose shrill, cuckoo-like, a mob-reviler, riddling Heraclitus.Theophrastus puts it down to melancholy that some parts of his work are half-finished, while other parts make a strange medley. As a proof of his magimity, Antisthenes in his Successions of Philosophers cites the fact that he renounced his claim to the kingship in favour of his brother. So great fame did his book win that a sect was founded and called the Heracliteans, after him. 9.59. and when after the king's death Anaxarchus was forced against his will to land in Cyprus, he seized him and, putting him in a mortar, ordered him to be pounded to death with iron pestles. But he, making light of the punishment, made that well-known speech, Pound, pound the pouch containing Anaxarchus; ye pound not Anaxarchus. And when Nicocreon commanded his tongue to be cut out, they say he bit it off and spat it at him. This is what I have written upon him:Pound, Nicocreon, as hard as you like: it is but a pouch. Pound on; Anaxarchus's self long since is housed with Zeus. And after she has drawn you upon her carding-combs a little while, Persephone will utter words like these: Out upon thee, villainous miller! 9.63. He would withdraw from the world and live in solitude, rarely showing himself to his relatives; this he did because he had heard an Indian reproach Anaxarchus, telling him that he would never be able to teach others what is good while he himself danced attendance on kings in their courts. He would maintain the same composure at all times, so that, even if you left him when he was in the middle of a speech, he would finish what he had to say with no audience but himself, although in his youth he had been hasty. often, our informant adds, he would leave his home and, telling no one, would go roaming about with whomsoever he chanced to meet. And once, when Anaxarchus fell into a slough, he passed by without giving him any help, and, while others blamed him, Anaxarchus himself praised his indifference and sang-froid. |
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