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Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Philosophers, 7.177

nan 6. SPHAERUSAmongst those who after the death of Zeno became pupils of Cleanthes was Sphaerus of Bosporus, as already mentioned. After making considerable progress in his studies, he went to Alexandria to the court of King Ptolemy Philopator. One day when a discussion had arisen on the question whether the wise man could stoop to hold opinion, and Sphaerus had maintained that this was impossible, the king, wishing to refute him, ordered some waxen pomegranates to be put on the table. Sphaerus was taken in and the king cried out, You have given your assent to a presentation which is false. But Sphaerus was ready with a neat answer. I assented not to the proposition that they are pomegranates, but to another, that there are good grounds for thinking them to be pomegranates. Certainty of presentation and reasonable probability are two totally different things. Mnesistratus having accused him of denying that Ptolemy was a king, his reply was, Being of such quality as he is, Ptolemy is indeed a king.

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1. Cicero, On The Ends of Good And Evil, 2.7 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.7. istam voluptatem, inquit, Epicurus ignorat? Non semper, inquam; nam interdum nimis nimis minus R etiam novit, quippe qui testificetur ne intellegere quidem se posse ubi sit aut quod sit ullum bonum praeter illud, quod cibo et potione et aurium delectatione et obscena voluptate capiatur. an haec ab eo non dicuntur? Quasi vero me pudeat, inquit, istorum, aut non possim quem ad modum ea dicantur ostendere! Ego vero non dubito, inquam, quin facile possis, nec est quod te pudeat sapienti adsentiri, qui se unus, quod sciam, sapientem profiteri sit ausus. nam Metrodorum non puto ipsum professum, sed, cum appellaretur ab Epicuro, repudiare tantum beneficium noluisse; septem autem illi non suo, sed populorum suffragio omnium nominati sunt. 2.7.  "What then?" he replied; "does not Epicurus recognize pleasure in your sense?" "Not always," said I; "now and then, I admit, he recognizes it only too fully; for he solemnly avows that he cannot even understand what Good there can be or where it can be found, apart from that which is derived from food and drink, the delight of the ears, and the grosser forms of gratification. Do I misrepresent his words?" "Just as if I were ashamed of all that," he cried, "or unable to explain the sense in which it is spoken!" "Oh," said I, "I haven't the least doubt you can explain it with ease. And you have no reason to be ashamed of sharing the opinions of a Wise Man — who stands alone, so far as I am aware, in venturing to arrogate to himself that title. For I do not suppose that Metrodorus himself claimed to be a Wise Man, though he did not care to refuse the compliment when the name was bestowed upon him by Epicurus; while the famous Seven of old received their appellation not by their own votes, but by the universal suffrage of mankind.
2. Cicero, Lucullus, 145, 21-22, 37-38, 57, 113 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 3.371, 5.622 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Epictetus, Discourses, 1.1.7-1.1.12 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
5. Plutarch, On Stoic Self-Contradictions, 1048e (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Seneca The Younger, On Anger, 2.1.1-2.1.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Gellius, Attic Nights, 19.1.14-19.1.21 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Numenius of Apamea, Fragments, 25 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Numenius of Apamea, Fragments, 25 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 7.151-7.157, 8.397 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
11. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.65-7.66, 7.121, 7.162, 7.174, 7.185, 7.201, 9.5 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 7.65. for here the agent includes himself in the sphere of his action. The oblique cases are genitive, dative, and accusative.A judgement is that which is either true or false, or a thing complete in itself, capable of being denied in and by itself, as Chrysippus says in his Dialectical Definitions: A judgement is that which in and by itself can be denied or affirmed, e.g. `It is day,' `Dion is walking.' The Greek word for judgement (ἀξίωμα) is derived from the verb ἀξιοῦν, as signifying acceptance or rejection; for when you say It is day, you seem to accept the fact that it is day. Now, if it really is day, the judgement before us is true, but if not, it is false. 7.66. There is a difference between judgement, interrogation, and inquiry, as also between imperative, adjurative, optative, hypothetical, vocative, whether that to which these terms are applied be a thing or a judgement. For a judgement is that which, when we set it forth in speech, becomes an assertion, and is either false or true: an interrogation is a thing complete in itself like a judgement but demanding an answer, e.g. Is it day? and this is so far neither true nor false. Thus It is day is a judgement; Is it day? an interrogation. An inquiry is something to which we cannot reply by signs, as you can nod Yes to an interrogation; but you must express the answer in words, He lives in this or that place. 7.121. But Heraclides of Tarsus, who was the disciple of Antipater of Tarsus, and Athenodorus both assert that sins are not equal.Again, the Stoics say that the wise man will take part in politics, if nothing hinders him – so, for instance, Chrysippus in the first book of his work On Various Types of Life – since thus he will restrain vice and promote virtue. Also (they maintain) he will marry, as Zeno says in his Republic, and beget children. Moreover, they say that the wise man will never form mere opinions, that is to say, he will never give assent to anything that is false; that he will also play the Cynic, Cynicism being a short cut to virtue, as Apollodorus calls it in his Ethics; that he will even turn cannibal under stress of circumstances. They declare that he alone is free and bad men are slaves, freedom being power of independent action, whereas slavery is privation of the same; 7.162. After meeting Polemo, says Diocles of Magnesia, while Zeno was suffering from a protracted illness, he recanted his views. The Stoic doctrine to which he attached most importance was the wise man's refusal to hold mere opinions. And against this doctrine Persaeus was contending when he induced one of a pair of twins to deposit a certain sum with Ariston and afterwards got the other to reclaim it. Ariston being thus reduced to perplexity was refuted. He was at variance with Arcesilaus; and one day when he saw an abortion in the shape of a bull with a uterus, he said, Alas, here Arcesilaus has had given into his hand an argument against the evidence of the senses. 7.174. To the solitary man who talked to himself he remarked, You are not talking to a bad man. When some one twitted him on his old age, his reply was, I too am ready to depart; but when again I consider that I am in all points in good health and that I can still write and read, I am content to wait. We are told that he wrote down Zeno's lectures on oyster-shells and the blade-bones of oxen through lack of money to buy paper. Such was he; and yet, although Zeno had many other eminent disciples, he was able to succeed him in the headship of the school.He has left some very fine writings, which are as follows:of Time.of Zeno's Natural Philosophy, two books.Interpretations of Heraclitus, four books.De Sensu.of Art.A Reply to Democritus.A Reply to Aristarchus.A Reply to Herillus.of Impulse, two books. 7.185. Another account is that his death was caused by a violent fit of laughter; for after an ass had eaten up his figs, he cried out to the old woman, Now give the ass a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs. And thereupon he laughed so heartily that he died.He appears to have been a very arrogant man. At any rate, of all his many writings he dedicated none to any of the kings. And he was satisfied with one old woman's judgement, says Demetrius in his work called Men of the Same Name. When Ptolemy wrote to Cleanthes requesting him to come himself or else to send some one to his court, Sphaerus undertook the journey, while Chrysippus declined to go. On the other hand, he sent for his sister's sons, Aristocreon and Philocrates, and educated them. Demetrius above mentioned is also our authority for the statement that Chrysippus was the first who ventured to hold a lecture-class in the open air in the Lyceum. 7.201. [2] Ethics dealing with the common view and the sciences and virtues thence arising.First series:Against the Touching up of Paintings, addressed to Timonax, one book.How it is we name each Thing and form a Conception of it, one book.of Conceptions, addressed to Laodamas, two books.of Opinion or Assumption, addressed to Pythonax, three books.Proofs that the Wise Man will not hold Opinions, one book.of Apprehension, of Knowledge and of Ignorance, four books.of Reason, two books.of the Use of Reason, addressed to Leptines.Second series:That the Ancients rightly admitted Dialectic as well as Demonstration, addressed to Zeno, two books. 9.5. He was exceptional from his boyhood; for when a youth he used to say that he knew nothing, although when he was grown up he claimed that he knew everything. He was nobody's pupil, but he declared that he inquired of himself, and learned everything from himself. Some, however, had said that he had been a pupil of Xenophanes, as we learn from Sotion, who also tells us that Ariston in his book On Heraclitus declares that he was cured of the dropsy and died of another disease. And Hippobotus has the same story.As to the work which passes as his, it is a continuous treatise On Nature, but is divided into three discourses, one on the universe, another on politics, and a third on theology.
12. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 6.8.11, 6.8.13, 6.8.16, 14.5.12 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
13. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 2.131, 3.266, 3.548

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
(lekta)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
academy, sceptical	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
alexandria	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 117
appearance (phantasia, impression)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
appearances (kataleptic)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
arcesilaus	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
aristo, sagehood of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
aristo	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
aristo of chios	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
aristotle/aristotelianism	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 512
aristotle	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
assent (sunkatathesis)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
athenaeus	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 117
athens	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 512
change (metabolē) to wisdom, between opposite states	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
change (metabolē) to wisdom, in ethics	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
change (metabolē) to wisdom, in logic	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
change (metabolē) to wisdom	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
chrysippus, demonstrations for the doctrine that the sage will not hold opinions	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
chrysippus, sagehood of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
chrysippus	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
cicero	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134; Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68; Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
cleanthes, sagehood of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
cleanthes	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
clement of alexandria, heresy and epistemology	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 398
cognitive / cognition	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
concepts	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
cosmos (visible world, universe) / cosmology	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
democritus	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
dialectic, definition of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
diogenes laertius	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61, 117, 134; Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
diogenianus	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
dogmatics, heraclitus as a dogmatic philosopher	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
epictetus	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
epicureanism	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
epicurus	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
eusebius of caesarea	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
false belief / false judgment / false opinion	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
good (moral)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
goods (external, material, conventional)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
heraclitus	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24; Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
homer/homeric scholarship	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 512
ioppolo, a.-m.	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
judgment (krisis)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
katalepsis, kataleptic impression	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
knowledge (epistēmē)	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
logic, dialectic and rhetoric as parts of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
lucretius	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
marcus aurelius	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
memory	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
numenius	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
paideia	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 512
paradox	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
persaeus, sagehood of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
physics	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
plato, theaeteus	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
plato	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
platonic dialogues, theaetetus	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
plutarch	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61, 134; Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
pomegranates	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 117
presocratics	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
prolepsis	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
ptolemy, philadelpus	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
ptolemy ii	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 512
reason (human) / rational faculty (logos, logistikon)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
related fabulously about, of aristo	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
related fabulously about, of chrysippus	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
related fabulously about, of cleanthes	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
related fabulously about, of persaeus	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
related fabulously about, of sphaerus	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 117, 134
related fabulously about, of the stoics'	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
related fabulously about, of the stoics	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 117
related fabulously about, of zeno	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
sage, as virtuous	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
sage, holds no opinions	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 61
seneca	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
septuagint	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 512
sextus empiricus	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
skepticism, academic	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
socrates	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
socrates (platonic character)	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
soul	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68; Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
soul / mind (psuchē, animus) vii, intellect (nous) / thoughts (dianoiai)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
soul / mind (psuchē, animus) vii	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
sphaerus, sagehood of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 117, 134
sphaerus	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68; Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
stobaeus	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
stoicism, orthodox borrowing from	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 398
stoicism	Bett, How to be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Scepticism (2019) 24
stoicism / stoic / stoa	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
stoics	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
system	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68
tranquillity, truth	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
virtue / moral virtue (aretē)	Lee, Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and His Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries (2020) 191
wisdom (sophia), sagehood of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 134
zeno of citium, and platos theaetetus	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
zeno of citium, epistemology of	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 228
zeno of citium	Erler et al., Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition (2021) 68