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Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Philosophers, 10.9

nan But these people are stark mad. For our philosopher has abundance of witnesses to attest his unsurpassed goodwill to all men – his native land, which honoured him with statues in bronze; his friends, so many in number that they could hardly be counted by whole cities, and indeed all who knew him, held fast as they were by the siren-charms of his doctrine, save Metrodorus of Stratonicea, who went over to Carneades, being perhaps burdened by his master's excessive goodness; the School itself which, while nearly all the others have died out, continues for ever without interruption through numberless reigns of one scholarch after another;

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Cicero, Letters To His Friends, 15.16, 15.19.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
2. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 4.3.7 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Mishnah, Avot, 1 (1st cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
4. Seneca The Younger, De Vita Beata (Dialogorum Liber Vii), 13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
5. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 10.6-10.7 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 10.6. It is added that he corresponded with many courtesans, and especially with Leontion, of whom Metrodorus also was enamoured. It is observed too that in his treatise On the Ethical End he writes in these terms: I know not how to conceive the good, apart from the pleasures of taste, sexual pleasures, the pleasures of sound and the pleasures of beautiful form. And in his letter to Pythocles: Hoist all sail, my dear boy, and steer clear of all culture. Epictetus calls him preacher of effeminacy and showers abuse on him.Again there was Timocrates, the brother of Metrodorus, who was his disciple and then left the school. He in the book entitled Merriment asserts that Epicurus vomited twice a day from over-indulgence, and goes on to say that he himself had much ado to escape from those notorious midnight philosophizings and the confraternity with all its secrets; 10.7. further, that Epicurus's acquaintance with philosophy was small and his acquaintance with life even smaller; that his bodily health was pitiful, so much so that for many years he was unable to rise from his chair; and that he spent a whole mina daily on his table, as he himself says in his letter to Leontion and in that to the philosophers at Mitylene. Also that among other courtesans who consorted with him and Metrodorus were Mammarion and Hedia and Erotion and Nikidion. He alleges too that in his thirty-seven books On Nature Epicurus uses much repetition and writes largely in sheer opposition to others, especially to Nausiphanes, and here are his own words: Nay, let them go hang: for, when labouring with an idea, he too had the sophist's off-hand boastfulness like many another servile soul;
6. Epicurus, Vatican Sayings, 41

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
action,and cult	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
aetiology	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
apollonius,of tyana	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
aristophanes	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
aristotle	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
atheism,atheists	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
athenaeus	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 15, 19
audience	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
belief,in gods/goddesses	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
belief,religious	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
cult,action	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
cult,epicurean	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
cult	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
damis,epicurean	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
damis,in philostratus apollonius	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
de rerum natura (lucretius)	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
debate	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
dialogue	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
diogenes,of oenoanda	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
diogenes laertius	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
drama	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
epicureans,and food	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 15, 19
epicurus,epicurean	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
greeks,ancient	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
homer	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 19
italy	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
kosmopolites,intellectual	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
latin	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
library	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
lists	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
lucretius	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
new comedy	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 19
odysseus	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 19
patriarchal school	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 72
pharisees	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
philodemus	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 19
philosophers	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
philosophical schools	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 72
philosophy,as way of life	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
philosophy,education in	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 72
philostratus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
pietas	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
plato	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
plutarch	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 1
psychological mode,desire	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
pudicitia	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 1
rabbinic education	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 72
religion,in antiquity	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
religion	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
roman society,elites of	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 212
sacrifice	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
scholarchs'	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 72
schools	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
seneca (the younger)	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 1
shechemites	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
sotion	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534
stoic	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
stoicism	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534; Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 1, 19
superstition	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
theology	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
timocles	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 299
timocrates,delightful people and	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 15
timocrates	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 15
timon of phlius	Gordon (2012), The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus, 15, 19
zeno	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 534