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--- cynics:teles [2012/06/09 21:58] – frank
+++ cynics:teles [2014/01/14 23:20] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 were admired and frequently alluded to in classical times.
 **Teles** comes down to us in extracts made by Stobaeus from
-an inito^ made by an otherwise unknown Theodorus x
+an //epitome// made by an otherwise unknown Theodorus
 there may have been other middlemen involved in the process.
 The fragments are edited and the date and sources of **Teles**
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 to an audience of youths at Megara ; **Teles** has a Megarian
 name, his writings employ certain Doric forms, and he alludes
-to himself as //paidagogos//; The seven fragments are dia-
+to himself as //paidagogos//; The seven fragments are diatribes ; four on such familiar Cynic themes as Exile, Self-Sufficiency, Poverty and Wealth ; that entitled //peri peristaseon//
-tribes ; four on such familiar Cynic themes as Exile, Self-
-Sufficiency, Poverty and Wealth ; that entitled //peri peristaseon//
 is a warning against //mempsimoria// ; while two have a
 polemical purpose, being respectively directed against the
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 that Theodorus (presumably) maintains an annoying running
 commentary to ensure that his reader is missing nothing
-* You see the joke ? ' he asks anxiously, and again, on the
+You see the joke ? ' he asks anxiously, and again, on the
-bravery of Spartan women, * What woman of our day would
+bravery of Spartan women, What woman of our day would
 have acted thus ? ' These comments are not always easy to
 distinguish from what may have been **Teles**' remarks to his
-class, e.g. * Would any of us have gone to sleep in such circum-
+class, e.g. Would any of us have gone to sleep in such circumstances ? ' (of Socrates' fortitude in prison). But in the first
-stances ? ' (of Socrates' fortitude in prison). But in the first
 diatribe there is less extraneous matter than in the others and
 some judgement can be formed of **Teles**' style.
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 served from the latter is of especial interest, for it outlines a
 curriculum supposed to have been adopted by Diogenes in
-educating the sons of his master Xeniades of Corinth. * After
+educating the sons of his master Xeniades of Corinth. After
 their other studies he taught them to ride, to shoot with the
 bow, to sling stones and hurl javelins. He also took them out
-hunting/ . . . Such exercises were presumably recommended
+hunting . . . Such exercises were presumably recommended
 as involving //ponos//, and it is interesting to be told that in
 the wrestling-school he would not permit the master to give
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 specialization in athletics and several apophthegms directed
 against athletes were attributed to Diogenes. 'He would
-wonder that men would strive to out- do each other in digging
+wonder that men would strive to outdo each other in digging
 and kicking, and yet no one strove to become a good man. Athletes are so stupid because they are built up of pigs-flesh
-and bulls-flesh'; a victory at the Great Games was won over
+and bulls-flesh; a victory at the Great Games was won over
 slaves, the Cynic's victory over men. The point was, of
 course, that the athlete's abounding energy might be better