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Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Philosophers, 5.2

nan He seceded from the Academy while Plato was still alive. Hence the remark attributed to the latter: Aristotle spurns me, as colts kick out at the mother who bore them. Hermippus in his Lives mentions that he was absent as Athenian envoy at the court of Philip when Xenocrates became head of the Academy, and that on his return, when he saw the school under a new head, he made choice of a public walk in the Lyceum where he would walk up and down discussing philosophy with his pupils until it was time to rub themselves with oil. Hence the name Peripatetic. But others say that it was given to him because, when Alexander was recovering from an illness and taking daily walks, Aristotle joined him and talked with him on certain matters.

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5. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 4.61, 5.52, 5.54, 5.58, 7.179 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 4.61. He assumed the headship of the school in the fourth year of the 134th Olympiad, and at his death he had been head for twenty-six years. His end was a palsy brought on by drinking too freely. And here is a quip of my own upon the fact:of thee too, O Lacydes, I have heard a tale, that Bacchus seized thee and dragged thee on tip-toe to the underworld. Nay, was it not clear that when the wine-god comes in force into the frame, he loosens our limbs? Perhaps this is why he gets his name of the Loosener. 5.52. Further, to repair the altar so that it may be perfect and elegant. It is also my wish that the statue of Nicomachus should be completed of life size. The price agreed upon for the making of the statue itself has been paid to Praxiteles, but the rest of the cost should be defrayed from the source above mentioned. The statue should be set up in whatever place seems desirable to the executors entrusted with carrying out my other testamentary dispositions. Let all that concerns the sanctuary and the offerings set up be arranged in this manner. The estate at Stagira belonging to me I give and bequeath to Callinus. All the books I give to Neleus. The garden and the walk and the houses adjoining the garden, all and sundry, I give and bequeath to such of my friends hereinafter named as may wish to study literature and philosophy there in common 5.54. And according to previous agreement let the charge of attending, after my decease, to the sanctuary and the monument and the garden and the walk be shared by Pompylus in person, living close by as he does, and exercising the same supervision over all other matters as before; and those who hold the property shall watch over his interests. Pompylus and Threpta have long been emancipated and have done me much service; and I think that 2000 drachmas certainly ought to belong to them from previous payments made to them by me, from their own earnings, and my present bequest to them to be paid by Hipparchus, as I stated many times in conversation with Melantes and Pancreon themselves, who agreed with me. I give and bequeath to them the maidservant Somatale. 5.58. 3. STRATOHis successor in the school was Strato, the son of Arcesilaus, a native of Lampsacus, whom he mentioned in his will; a distinguished man who is generally known as the physicist, because more than anyone else he devoted himself to the most careful study of nature. Moreover, he taught Ptolemy Philadelphus and received, it is said, 80 talents from him. According to Apollodorus in his Chronology he became head of the school in the 123rd Olympiad, and continued to preside over it for eighteen years. 7.179. 7. CHRYSIPPUSChrysippus, the son of Apollonius, came either from Soli or from Tarsus, as Alexander relates in his Successions. He was a pupil of Cleanthes. Before this he used to practise as a long-distance runner; but afterwards he came to hear Zeno, or, as Diocles and most people say, Cleanthes; and then, while Cleanthes was still living, withdrew from his school and attained exceptional eminence as a philosopher. He had good natural parts and showed the greatest acuteness in every branch of the subject; so much so that he differed on most points from Zeno, and from Cleanthes as well, to whom he often used to say that all he wanted was to be told what the doctrines were; he would find out the proofs for himself. Nevertheless, whenever he had contended against Cleanthes, he would afterwards feel remorse, so that he constantly came out with the lines:Blest in all else am I, save only whereI touch Cleanthes: there I am ill-fortuned.
6. Origen, Against Celsus, 3.12 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 3.12. In the next place, since he reproaches us with the existence of heresies in Christianity as being a ground of accusation against it, saying that when Christians had greatly increased in numbers, they were divided and split up into factions, each individual desiring to have his own party; and further, that being thus separated through their numbers, they confute one another, still having, so to speak, one name in common, if indeed they still retain it. And this is the only thing which they are yet ashamed to abandon, while other matters are determined in different ways by the various sects. In reply to which, we say that heresies of different kinds have never originated from any matter in which the principle involved was not important and beneficial to human life. For since the science of medicine is useful and necessary to the human race, and many are the points of dispute in it respecting the manner of curing bodies, there are found, for this reason, numerous heresies confessedly prevailing in the science of medicine among the Greeks, and also, I suppose, among those barbarous nations who profess to employ medicine. And, again, since philosophy makes a profession of the truth, and promises a knowledge of existing things with a view to the regulation of life, and endeavours to teach what is advantageous to our race, and since the investigation of these matters is attended with great differences of opinion, innumerable heresies have consequently sprung up in philosophy, some of which are more celebrated than others. Even Judaism itself afforded a pretext for the origination of heresies, in the different acceptation accorded to the writings of Moses and those of the prophets. So, then, seeing Christianity appeared an object of veneration to men, not to the more servile class alone, as Celsus supposes, but to many among the Greeks who were devoted to literary pursuits, there necessarily originated heresies - not at all, however, as the result of faction and strife, but through the earnest desire of many literary men to become acquainted with the doctrines of Christianity. The consequence of which was, that, taking in different acceptations those discourses which were believed by all to be divine, there arose heresies, which received their names from those individuals who admired, indeed, the origin of Christianity, but who were led, in some way or other, by certain plausible reasons, to discordant views. And yet no one would act rationally in avoiding medicine because of its heresies; nor would he who aimed at that which is seemly entertain a hatred of philosophy, and adduce its many heresies as a pretext for his antipathy. And so neither are the sacred books of Moses and the prophets to be condemned on account of the heresies in Judaism.
7. Suidas Thessalius, Fragments, π2473

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
academy,the (of plato)	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 546
academy	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
alexandria	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
antipater	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 384
apollinaris sidonius	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
aristotelians,aristotelian school	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
aristotle,dissension with plato	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 546
aristotle	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
athens	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
chrysippus	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48; Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
cleanthes	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
dinarchus of corinth (politician)	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 384
epicureans/\u2009epicureanism	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
erythrai	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 384
eunapius	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
grammar	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
grammarian	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
heresy,rabbinic judaism,influence of historiographical outlook of the philosophical schools	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 546
heresy,rabbinic judaism	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 546
hippias of erythrai	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 384
inscription	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
isocrates	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
julius pollux	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
katēgoros	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 384
library	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
lyceum	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
marinus of neapolis	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
mentor	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 546
mosaic of the philosophers	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
neoplatonism,neoplatonic school of athens	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
ortyges	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 384
perdiccas	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 384
philosophical schools,as influencing rabbinic treatment of heresy'	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 546
philostratus	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
plato	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
plutarch (neoplatonist)	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
poseidonius	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
rhodes	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
school,philosophical schools	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
school,rhetorical schools	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
socrates	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
speusippus	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
stoa / stoics	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
successor / succession	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
syrianus	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
tarsus	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
teacher,terminology	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
teacher	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
thales	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
timaeus (platonic character)	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 48
xenocrates	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231
zeno of citium	Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 231