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1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 28.30 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

28.30. Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof."
2. Plato, Philebus, 30a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

30a. Soc. Well, is this next one worth asking? What will you say to it? Pro. What is it? Soc. Shall we not say that our body has a soul? Pro. Clearly we shall. Soc. Where did it get it, Protarchus, unless the body of the universe had a soul, since that body has the same elements as ours, only in every way superior? Pro. Clearly it could get it from no other source. Soc. No; for we surely do not believe, Protarchus, that of those four elements, the finite, the infinite, the combination
3. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.4.8 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

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?
4. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.20-2.22, 2.91 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.20. When one expounds these doctrines in a fuller and more flowing style, as I propose to do, it is easier for them to evade the captious objections of the Academy; but when they are reduced to brief syllogistic form, as was the practice of Zeno, they lie more open to criticism. A running river can almost or quite entirely escape pollution, whereas an enclosed pool is easily sullied; similarly a flowing stream of eloquence sweeps aside the censures of the critic, but a closely reasoned argument defends itself with difficult. The thoughts that we expound at length Zeno used to compress into this form: 2.21. 'That which has the faculty of reason is superior to that which has not the faculty of reason; but nothing is superior to the world; therefore the world has the faculty of reason.' A similar argument can be used to prove that the world is wise, and happy, and eternal; for things possessed of each of these attributes are superior to things devoid of them, and nothing is superior to the world. From this it will follow that the world is god. Zeno also argued thus: 2.22. 'Nothing devoid of sensation can have a part of itself that is sentient; but the world has parts that are sentient; therefore the world has parts that are sentient; therefore the world is not devoid of sensation.' He also proceeds to press the argument more closely: 'Nothing,' he says, 'that is iimate and irrational can give birth to an animate and rational being; but the world gives birth to animate and rational beings; therefore the world is animate and rational.' Furthermore he proved his argument by means of one of his favourite comparisons, as follows: 'If flutes playing musical tunes grew on an olive-tree, surely you would not question that the olive-tree possessed some knowledge of the art of flute-playing; or if plane-trees bore well-tuned lutes, doubtless you would likewise infer that the plane-trees possessed the art of music; why then should we not judge the world to be animate and endowed with wisdom, when it produces animate and wise offspring? 2.91. For in the first place the earth, which is situated in the centre of the world, is surrounded on all sides by this living and respirable substance named the air. 'Air' is a Greek word, but yet it has by this time been accepted in use by our race, and in fact passes current as Latin. The air in turn is embraced by the immeasurable aether, which consists of the most elevated portions of fire. The term 'aether' also we may borrow, and employ it like 'air' as a Latin word, though Pacuvius provides his readers with a translation: What I speak of, we call heaven, but the Greeks it 'aether' call — just as though the man who says this were not a Greek! 'Well, he is talking Latin,' you may say. Just so, if we won't suppose we are hearing him talk Greek; in another passage Pacuvius tells us: A Grecian born: my speech discloses that.
5. Philo of Alexandria, On Husbandry, 158, 14 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

14. At all events, men say, that the ancients compared the principles of philosophy, as being threefold, to a field; likening natural philosophy to trees and plants, and moral philosophy to fruits, for the sake of which the plants are planted; and logical philosophy to the hedge or fence:
6. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 2.22-2.23 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

7. Plutarch, On Common Conceptions Against The Stoics, 1085d, 1085c (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

8. Alexander of Aphrodisias, Supplement To On The Soul (Mantissa), 115.6 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

9. Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Mixture, 217.32-218.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

10. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 9.75-9.77, 9.79-9.81, 9.86, 9.111 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

11. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.132 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

7.132. Their physical doctrine they divide into sections (1) about bodies; (2) about principles; (3) about elements; (4) about the gods; (5) about bounding surfaces and space whether filled or empty. This is a division into species; but the generic division is into three parts, dealing with (i.) the universe; (ii.) the elements; (iii.) the subject of causation.The part dealing with the universe admits, they say, of division into two: for with one aspect of it the mathematicians also are concerned, in so far as they treat questions relating to the fixed stars and the planets, e.g. whether the sun is or is not just so large as it appears to be, and the same about the moon, the question of their revolutions, and other inquiries of the same sort.
12. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 2.444, 2.1211



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
abraham, as planter Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
alexander of aphrodisias Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228
analogy Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126
aristotle Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
astrology Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 242, 251
body, and soul Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228, 231
boethus Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
breath Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228, 231
chaldeans Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 242, 251
chrysippus Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 231; Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126
cosmic soul/world soul, proofs of cosmic soul Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 134, 135
cosmos, as plant Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
cosmos Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 231
diogenes of babylon Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
dunamis Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228, 231
elements, four Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
epictetus Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126
epicureans Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
exposition of the law Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
fate Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126
favorinus Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
fire Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 130
früchtel, u. Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
galen, ps. galen Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228
god, planter Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
god, stoic Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126
human being, as heavenly plant Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
human being, as plant Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
intellect, cosmic and human Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 130
mantissa (alexander) Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228
nature Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228, 231; Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 134
part of a whole (soul as, etc.) Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126, 130, 134, 135
phaedrus, timaeus Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
plato/platonic Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
plutarch Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228
pneuma (spiritus) Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126
posidonius Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 242; Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
providence Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
reason, rationality Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 134, 135
reproduction Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 135
runia, d.t. Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
sextus empiricus Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
socrates Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 130
soul Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228, 231
stoa/stoic/stoicism, philo and stoa Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
stoa/stoic/stoicism Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
stoics Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228, 231
sumpatheia Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 126, 134
symbolic interpretation, of vineyard Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
sympathy/sympatheia Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
tenor (hexis) Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 134
theophrastus Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 251
tonos Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 228, 231
true belief, unity, kinds of Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 134, 135
virtues' Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2019) 88
zeno of citium Inwood and Warren, Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (2020) 134, 135