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Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Philosophers, 5.79-5.81
nan Here are my lines upon him:A venomous asp was the death of the wise Demetrius, an asp withal of sticky venom, darting, not light from its eyes, but black death.Heraclides in his epitome of Sotion's Successions of Philosophers says that Ptolemy himself wished to transmit the kingdom to Philadelphus, but that Demetrius tried to dissuade him, saying, If you give it to another, you will not have it yourself. At the time when he was being continually attacked in Athens, Menander, the Comic poet, as I have also learnt, was very nearly brought to trial for no other cause than that he was a friend of Demetrius. However, Telesphorus, the nephew of Demetrius, begged him off.In the number of his works and their total length in lines he has surpassed almost all contemporary Peripatetics. For in learning and versatility he ha
nan no equal. Some of these works are historical and others political; there are some dealing with poets, others with rhetoric. Then there are public speeches and reports of embassies, besides collections of Aesop's fables and much else. He wrote:Of Legislation at Athens, five books.Of the Constitutions of Athens, two books.Of Statesmanship, two books.On Politics, two books.Of Laws, one book.On Rhetoric, two books.On Military Matters, two books.
nan On the Iliad, two books.On the Odyssey, four books.And the following works, each in one book:Ptolemy.Concerning Love.Phaedondas.Maedon.Cleon.Socrates.Artaxerxes.Concerning Homer.Aristides.Aristomachus.An Exhortation to Philosophy.Of the Constitution.On the ten years of his own Supremacy.Of the Ionians.Concerning Embassies.Of Belief.Of Favour.Of Fortune.Of Magnanimity.Of Marriage.Of the Beam in the Sky.Of Peace.On Laws.On Customs.Of Opportunity.Dionysius.Concerning Chalcis.A Denunciation of the Athenians.On Antiphanes.Historical Introduction.Letters.A Sworn Assembly.Of Old Age.Rights.Aesop's Fables.Anecdotes.

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1. Callimachus, Fragments, 392 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
2. Callimachus, Fragments, 392 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
3. Callimachus, Fragments, 392 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
4. Theocritus, Idylls, 17.128-17.134 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
5. Cicero, On The Ends of Good And Evil, 5.19.54 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Cicero, On Duties, 5.19.54 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Seneca The Younger, On Leisure, 9.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
8. Aelian, Varia Historia, 3.17 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
9. Gellius, Attic Nights, 7.17.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Justin, Dialogue With Trypho, 35.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
11. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.7.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.7.1. This Ptolemy fell in love with Arsinoe, his full sister, and married her, violating herein Macedonian custom, but following that of his Egyptian subjects. Secondly he put to death his brother Argaeus, who was, it is said, plotting against him; and he it was who brought down from Memphis the corpse of Alexander. He put to death another brother also, son of Eurydice, on discovering that he was creating disaffection among the Cyprians. Then Magas, the half-brother of Ptolemy, who had been entrusted with the governorship of Cyrene by his mother Berenice—she had borne him to Philip, a Macedonians but of no note and of lowly origin—induced the people of Cyrene to revolt from Ptolemy and marched against Egypt .
12. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 5.37-5.39, 5.75-5.76, 5.78, 5.80-5.82, 5.84-5.85, 7.12 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 5.37. Furthermore, he was ever ready to do a kindness and fond of discussion. Casander certainly granted him audience and Ptolemy made overtures to him. And so highly was he valued at Athens that, when Agnonides ventured to prosecute him for impiety, the prosecutor himself narrowly escaped punishment. About 2000 pupils used to attend his lectures. In a letter to Phanias the Peripatetic, among other topics, he speaks of a tribunal as follows: To get a public or even a select circle such as one desires is not easy. If an author reads his work, he must re-write it. Always to shirk revision and ignore criticism is a course which the present generation of pupils will no longer tolerate. And in this letter he has called some one pedant. 5.38. Although his reputation stood so high, nevertheless for a short time he had to leave the country with all the other philosophers, when Sophocles the son of Amphiclides proposed a law that no philosopher should preside over a school except by permission of the Senate and the people, under penalty of death. The next year, however, the philosophers returned, as Philo had prosecuted Sophocles for making an illegal proposal. Whereupon the Athenians repealed the law, fined Sophocles five talents, and voted the recall of the philosophers, in order that Theophrastus also might return and live there as before. He bore the name of Tyrtamus, and it was Aristotle who re-named him Theophrastus on account of his graceful style. 5.39. And Aristippus, in his fourth book On the Luxury of the Ancients, asserts that he was enamoured of Aristotle's son Nicomachus, although he was his teacher. It is said that Aristotle applied to him and Callisthenes what Plato had said of Xenocrates and himself (as already related), namely, that the one needed a bridle and the other a goad; for Theophrastus interpreted all his meaning with an excess of cleverness, whereas the other was naturally backward. He is said to have become the owner of a garden of his own after Aristotle's death, through the intervention of his friend Demetrius of Phalerum. There are pithy sayings of his in circulation as follows: An unbridled horse, he said, ought to be trusted sooner than a badly-arranged discourse. 5.75. 5. DEMETRIUSDemetrius, the son of Phanostratus, was a native of Phalerum. He was a pupil of Theophrastus, but by his speeches in the Athenian assembly he held the chief power in the State for ten years and was decreed 360 bronze statues, most of them representing him either on horseback or else driving a chariot or a pair of horses. And these statues were completed in less than 300 days, so much was he esteemed. He entered politics, says Demetrius of Magnesia in his work on Men of the Same Name, when Harpalus, fleeing from Alexander, came to Athens. As a statesman he rendered his country many splendid services. For he enriched the city with revenues and buildings, though he was not of noble birth. 5.76. For he was one of Conon's household servants, according to Favorinus in the first book of his Memorabilia; yet Lamia, with whom he lived, was a citizen of noble family, as Favorinus also states in his first book. Further, in his second book Favorinus alleges that he suffered violence from Cleon, while Didymus in his Table-talk relates how a certain courtesan nicknamed him Charito-Blepharos (having the eyelids of the Graces), and Lampito (of shining eyes). He is said to have lost his sight when in Alexandria and to have recovered it by the gift of Sarapis; whereupon he composed the paeans which are sung to this day.For all his popularity with the Athenians he nevertheless suffered eclipse through all-devouring envy. 5.78. And in the official list the year in which he was archon was styled the year of lawlessness, according to this same Favorinus.Hermippus tells us that upon the death of Casander, being in fear of Antigonus, he fled to Ptolemy Soter. There he spent a considerable time and advised Ptolemy, among other things, to invest with sovereign power his children by Eurydice. To this Ptolemy would not agree, but bestowed the diadem on his son by Berenice, who, after Ptolemy's death, thought fit to detain Demetrius as a prisoner in the country until some decision should be taken concerning him. There he lived in great dejection, and somehow, in his sleep, received an asp-bite on the hand which proved fatal. He is buried in the district of Busiris near Diospolis. 5.80. no equal. Some of these works are historical and others political; there are some dealing with poets, others with rhetoric. Then there are public speeches and reports of embassies, besides collections of Aesop's fables and much else. He wrote:of Legislation at Athens, five books.of the Constitutions of Athens, two books.of Statesmanship, two books.On Politics, two books.of Laws, one book.On Rhetoric, two books.On Military Matters, two books. 5.81. On the Iliad, two books.On the Odyssey, four books.And the following works, each in one book:Ptolemy.Concerning Love.Phaedondas.Maedon.Cleon.Socrates.Artaxerxes.Concerning Homer.Aristides.Aristomachus.An Exhortation to Philosophy.of the Constitution.On the ten years of his own Supremacy.of the Ionians.Concerning Embassies.of Belief.of Favour.of Fortune.of Magimity.of Marriage.of the Beam in the Sky.of Peace.On Laws.On Customs.of Opportunity.Dionysius.Concerning Chalcis.A Denunciation of the Athenians.On Antiphanes.Historical Introduction.Letters.A Sworn Assembly.of Old Age.Rights.Aesop's Fables.Anecdotes. 5.82. His style is philosophical, with an admixture of rhetorical vigour and force. When he heard that the Athenians had destroyed his statues, That they may do, said he, but the merits which caused them to be erected they cannot destroy. He used to say that the eyebrows formed but a small part of the face, and yet they can darken the whole of life by the scorn they express. Again, he said that not only was Plutus blind, but his guide, Fortune, as well; that all that steel could achieve in war was won in politics by eloquence. On seeing a young dandy, There, quoth he, is a four-square Hermes for you, with trailing robe, belly, beard and all. When men are haughty and arrogant, he declared we should cut down their tall stature and leave them their spirit unimpaired. Children should honour their parents at home, out-of-doors everyone they meet, and in solitude themselves. 5.84. (8) the sophist who lived at Alexandria, author of handbooks of rhetoric; (9) a grammarian of Adramyttium, surnamed Ixion because he was thought to be unjust to Hera; (10) a grammarian of Cyrene, surnamed Wine-jar, an eminent man; (11) a native of Scepsis, a man of wealth and good birth, ardently devoted to learning; he was also the means of bringing his countryman Metrodorus into prominence; (12) a grammarian of Erythrae enrolled as a citizen of Lemnos; (13) a Bithynian, son of Diphilus the Stoic and pupil of Panaetius of Rhodes; 5.85. (14) a rhetorician of Smyrna. The foregoing were prose authors. of poets bearing this name the first belonged to the Old Comedy; the second was an epic poet whose lines to the envious alone survive:While he lives they scorn the man whom they regret when he is gone; yet, some day, for the honour of his tomb and lifeless image, contention seizes cities and the people set up strife;the third of Tarsus, writer of satires; the fourth, a writer of lampoons, in a bitter style; the fifth, a sculptor mentioned by Polemo; the sixth, of Erythrae, a versatile man, who also wrote historical and rhetorical works. 7.12. Thraso of the deme Anacaea, Philocles of Peiraeus, Phaedrus of Anaphlystus, Medon of Acharnae, Micythus of Sypalettus, and Dion of Paeania have been elected commissioners for the making of the crown and the building.These are the terms of the decree.Antigonus of Carystus tells us that he never denied that he was a citizen of Citium. For when he was one of those who contributed to the restoration of the baths and his name was inscribed upon the pillar as Zeno the philosopher, he requested that the words of Citium should be added. He made a hollow lid for a flask and used to carry about money in it, in order that there might be provision at hand for the necessities of his master Crates.
13. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 22.12 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
(great) library of alexandria,destruction by caliph umar i	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 77
(great) library of alexandria,destruction by julius caesar	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 77
(great) library of alexandria,destruction debate	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 77
(great) library of alexandria	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 77, 84
academy xiii	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
alexandria,philos perspective on	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
alexandria	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
andokides,genos,herms/mysteries	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
anepsios	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
apollodoros son of pasion,lawsuits	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
arsinoe ii	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
athenaeus	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
athens	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
atimia	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
caliph ʿumar i	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 77
callimachus	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223; Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 77
christianity/christians,rioting/religious violence in alexandria by	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 77
cicero	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
de sanctis,gaetano	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
demetrios of phaleron (tyrant)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
demetrius of phalerum,banished by ptolemy ii	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
demetrius of phalerum	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88; Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223; Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
diogenes (philosopher)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
diogenes laertius	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88; Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
edwards,walter	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
exercise)	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
graphê,paranomôn	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
gymnasia,academy	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
hellenistic ideology of kingship	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
hellenistic oratory	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
karneades of kyrene (philosopher)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
kritolaos of phaselis (philosopher)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
körte,alfred	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
lykon of alexandria (philosopher)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
macedonia/macedonian,cassander	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
macedonia	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
memory,cultural	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
miltiades,prosecution	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
neoi	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
oropos	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
panaitios of rhodes (philosopher)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
perikles,sons	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
philo of alexandria	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
philos perspective	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
philosophy,origin of notion of αἵρεσις	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 33
plutarch	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
progymnasmata	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
ptolemaia	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
ptolemaic royal ideology vi	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
ptolemy i	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
ptolemy i soter	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
ptolemy ii	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
ptolemy ii philadelphus	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
ptolemy viii euergetes ii	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
rhetorical exercises	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 88
rome	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
saturninus	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 33
strabo	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 223
succession,previous notions of	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 33
synegoros	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
theophrastos	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
theophrastus'	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 84
valentinians	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 33
zenodoros (philosopher)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
zenon (philosopher)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 265
γνώμη	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 33
διαδοχή	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 33
ἀρχηγέτης	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 33