1. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.4.8 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •arius dydimus, Found in books: Del Lucchese (2019) 211| 1.4.8. σὺ δὲ σαυτῷ δοκεῖς τι φρόνιμον ἔχειν; ἐρώτα γοῦν καὶ ἀποκρινοῦμαι. ἄλλοθι δὲ οὐδαμοῦ οὐδὲν οἴει φρόνιμον εἶναι; καὶ ταῦτʼ εἰδὼς ὅτι γῆς τε μικρὸν μέρος ἐν τῷ σώματι πολλῆς οὔσης ἔχεις καὶ ὑγροῦ βραχὺ πολλοῦ ὄντος καὶ τῶν ἄλλων δήπου μεγάλων ὄντων ἑκάστου μικρὸν μέρος λαβόντι τὸ σῶμα συνήρμοσταί σοι· νοῦν δὲ μόνον ἄρα οὐδαμοῦ ὄντα σε εὐτυχῶς πως δοκεῖς συναρπάσαι, καὶ τάδε τὰ ὑπερμεγέθη καὶ πλῆθος ἄπειρα διʼ ἀφροσύνην τινά, ὡς οἴει, εὐτάκτως ἔχειν; | 1.4.8. Do you think you have any wisdom yourself? Oh! Ask me a question and judge from my answer. And do you suppose that wisdom is nowhere else to be found, although you know that you have a mere speck of all the earth in your body and a mere drop of all the water, and that of all the other mighty elements you received, I suppose, just a scrap towards the fashioning of your body? But as for mind, which alone, it seems, is without mass, do you think that you snapped it up by a lucky accident, and that the orderly ranks of all these huge masses, infinite in number, are due, forsooth, to a sort of absurdity? |
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2. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.58 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •arius dydimus, Found in books: Del Lucchese (2019) 211 | 2.58. the nature of the world itself, which encloses and contains all things in its embrace, is styled by Zeno not merely 'craftsmanlike' but actually 'a craftsman,' whose foresight plans out the work to serve its use and purpose in every detail. And as the other natural substances are generated, reared and sustained each by its own seeds, so the world-nature experiences all those motions of the will, those impulses of conation and desire, that the Greeks call hormae, and follows these up with the appropriate actions in the same way as do we ourselves, who experience emotions and sensations. Such being the nature of the world-mind, it can therefore correctly be designated as prudence or providence (for in Greek it is termed pronoia); and this providence is chiefly directed and concentrated upon three objects, namely to secure for the world, first, the structure best fitted for survival; next, absolute completeness; but chiefly, consummate beauty and embellishment of every kind. |
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| 3. Lucan, Pharsalia, 7.444-7.455 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •arius dydimus, Found in books: Del Lucchese (2019) 211 |
| 4. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 15.15 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •arius dydimus, Found in books: Del Lucchese (2019) 211 |
| 5. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 1.509, 2.528, 2.1106-2.1126 Tagged with subjects: •arius dydimus, Found in books: Del Lucchese (2019) 211 |
| 6. Philo of Alexandria, Prou., 2.48 Tagged with subjects: •arius dydimus, Found in books: Del Lucchese (2019) 211 |
