====== Crates of Thebes | Diogenes Laertius, Book 2 §114  ======


<blockquote>And besides these he won over Phrasidemus the Peripatetic, an accomplished physicist, and Alcimus the rhetorician, the first orator in all Greece; **Crates**, too, and many others he got into his toils, and, what is more, along with these, he carried off Zeno the Phoenician.

He was also an authority on politics.

He married a wife, and had a mistress named Nicarete, as Onetor has somewhere stated. He had a profligate daughter, who was married to his friend Simmias of Syracuse. And, as she would not live by rule, some one told Stilpo that she was a disgrace to him. To this he replied, "Not so, any more than I am an honour to her."
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers  (1925) by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks\\
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