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 4. For a certain space, then, he was instructed by **Crates**, and when at this time he had written his Republic, some said in jest that he had written it on Cynosura, i.e. on the dog's tail. Besides the Republic he wrote the following works: 4. For a certain space, then, he was instructed by **Crates**, and when at this time he had written his Republic, some said in jest that he had written it on Cynosura, i.e. on the dog's tail. Besides the Republic he wrote the following works:
  
-    Of Life according to Nature.\\ +    Of Life according to Nature. 
-    Of Impulse, or Human Nature.\\ +    Of Impulse, or Human Nature. 
-    Of Emotions.\\ +    Of Emotions. 
-    Of Duty.\\ +    Of Duty. 
-    Of Law.\\ +    Of Law. 
-    Of Greek Education.\\ +    Of Greek Education. 
-    Of Vision.\\ +    Of Vision. 
-    Of the Whole World.\\ +    Of the Whole World. 
-    Of Signs.\\ +    Of Signs. 
-    Pythagorean Questions.\\ +    Pythagorean Questions. 
-    Universals.\\ +    Universals. 
-    Of Varieties of Style.\\ +    Of Varieties of Style. 
-    Homeric Problems, in five books.\\ +    Homeric Problems, in five books. 
-    Of the Reading of Poetry.\\+    Of the Reading of Poetry.
  
 There are also by him: There are also by him:
  
-    A Handbook of Rhetoric.\\ +    A Handbook of Rhetoric. 
-    Solutions.\\ +    Solutions. 
-    Two books of Refutations.\\ +    Two books of Refutations. 
-    Recollections of **Crates**.\\ +    Recollections of **Crates**. 
-    Ethics.\\+    Ethics.
  
 This is a list of his writings. But at last he left **Crates**, and the men above mentioned were his masters for twenty years. Hence he is reported to have said, "I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck." But others attribute this saying of his to the time when he was under **Crates**.  This is a list of his writings. But at last he left **Crates**, and the men above mentioned were his masters for twenty years. Hence he is reported to have said, "I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck." But others attribute this saying of his to the time when he was under **Crates**. 
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 +Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (1925) by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks\\
 [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/|Source]]</blockquote> [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/|Source]]</blockquote>
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