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===== Diogenes Laertius, Book 2 §113-120 ===== | ===== Diogenes Laertius, Book 2 §113-120 ===== | ||
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114. And besides these he won over Phrasidemus the Peripatetic, | 114. And besides these he won over Phrasidemus the Peripatetic, | ||
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He was also an authority on politics. | 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." | + | 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." |
- | 115. Ptolemy Soter, they say, made much of him, and when he had got possession of Megara, offered him a sum of money and invited him to return with him to Egypt. But Stilpo would only accept a very moderate sum, and he declined the proposed journey, and removed to Aegina until Ptolemy set sail. Again, when Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, had taken Megara, he took measures that Stilpo' | + | 115. Ptolemy Soter, they say, made much of him, and when he had got possession of Megara, offered him a sum of money and invited him to return with him to Egypt. But **Stilpo** would only accept a very moderate sum, and he declined the proposed journey, and removed to Aegina until Ptolemy set sail. Again, when Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, had taken Megara, he took measures that **Stilpo**'s house should be preserved and all his plundered property restored to him. But when he requested that a schedule of the lost property should be drawn up, **Stilpo** denied that he had lost anything which really belonged to him, for no one had taken away his learning, while he still had his eloquence and knowledge. |
- | 116. And conversing upon the duty of doing good to men he made such an impression on the king that he became eager to hear him. There is a story that he once used the following argument concerning the Athena of Phidias: "Is it not Athena the daughter of Zeus who is a goddess?" | + | 116. And conversing upon the duty of doing good to men he made such an impression on the king that he became eager to hear him. There is a story that he once used the following argument concerning the Athena of Phidias: "Is it not Athena the daughter of Zeus who is a goddess?" |
117. When Crates asked him whether the gods take delight in prayers and adorations, he is said to have replied, " | 117. When Crates asked him whether the gods take delight in prayers and adorations, he is said to have replied, " | ||
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//Will you not scatter the crowd from me, O much-enduring elder?// | //Will you not scatter the crowd from me, O much-enduring elder?// | ||
- | In character Stilpo was simple and unaffected, and he could readily adapt himself to the plain man. For instance, when Crates the Cynic did not answer the question put to him and only insulted the questioner, "I knew," said Stilpo, "that you would utter anything rather than what you ought." | + | In character |
- | 118. And once when Crates held out a fig to him when putting a question, he took the fig and ate it. Upon which the other exclaimed, "O Heracles, I have lost the fig," and Stilpo remarked, "Not only that but your question as well, for which the fig was payment in advance." | + | 118. And once when Crates held out a fig to him when putting a question, he took the fig and ate it. Upon which the other exclaimed, "O Heracles, I have lost the fig," and **Stilpo** remarked, "Not only that but your question as well, for which the fig was payment in advance." |
- | //And Stilpo I saw enduring toilsome woes in Megara, where men say that the bed of Typhos is. There he would ever be wrangling, and many comrades about him, wasting time in the verbal pursuit of virtue.// | + | //And **Stilpo** I saw enduring toilsome woes in Megara, where men say that the bed of Typhos is. There he would ever be wrangling, and many comrades about him, wasting time in the verbal pursuit of virtue.// |
- | 119. It is said that at Athens he so attracted the public that people would run together from the workshops to look at him. And when some one said, " | + | 119. It is said that at Athens he so attracted the public that people would run together from the workshops to look at him. And when some one said, "**Stilpo**, they stare at you as if you were some strange creature." |
- | 120. Nine dialogues of his are extant written in frigid style, //Moschus, Aristippus or Callias, Ptolemy, Chaerecrates, | + | 120. Nine dialogues of his are extant written in frigid style, //Moschus, Aristippus or Callias, Ptolemy, Chaerecrates, |
I have written an epitaph on him also:[ | I have written an epitaph on him also:[ | ||
- | //Surely you know Stilpo the Megarian; old age and then disease laid him low, a formidable pair. But he found in wine a charioteer too strong for that evil team; he quaffed it eagerly and was borne along.// | + | //Surely you know **Stilpo** the Megarian; old age and then disease laid him low, a formidable pair. But he found in wine a charioteer too strong for that evil team; he quaffed it eagerly and was borne along.// |
He was also ridiculed by Sophilus the Comic poet in his drama //The Wedding//: | He was also ridiculed by Sophilus the Comic poet in his drama //The Wedding//: | ||
- | //What Charinus says is just Stilpo' | + | //What Charinus says is just **Stilpo**'s stoppers.// |
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