[Footnote 75: Sext. Emp. adv. Mathem. x. 113. [Greek: ki/nêsis kat' ei)likri/neian . . . ki/nêsis kat' e)pikra/teian]. Compare Zeller, Die Philosophie der Griech. ii. p. 191, ed. 2nd.] [Footnote 76: Sext. Emp. adv. Mathem. x. pp. 346-348.] [Side-note: Stilpon of Megara--His great celebrity.] That Diodorus was a person seriously anxious to solve logical difficulties, as well as to propose them, would be incontestably proved if we could believe the story recounted of him--that he hanged himself because he could not solve a problem proposed by Stilpon in the presence of Ptolemy Soter.[77] But this story probably grew out of the fact, that Stilpon succeeded Diodorus at Megara, and eclipsed him in reputation. The celebrity of Stilpon, both at Megara and at Athens (between 320-300 B.C., but his exact date can hardly be settled), was equal, if not superior, to that of any contemporary philosopher. He was visited by listeners from all parts of Greece, and he drew away pupils from the most renowned teachers of the day; from Theophrastus as well as the others.[78] He was no less remarkable for fertility of invention than for neatness of expression. Two persons, who came for the purpose of refuting him, are said to have remained with him as admirers and scholars. All Greece seemed as it were looking towards him, and inclining towards the Megaric doctrines.[79] He was much esteemed both by Ptolemy Soter and by Demetrius Poliorkêtes, though he refused the presents and invitations of both: and there is reason to believe that his reputation in his own day must have equalled that of either Plato or Aristotle in theirs. He was formidable in disputation; but the nine dialogues which he composed and published are characterised by Diogenes as cold.[80] [Footnote 77: Diog. L. ii. 112.] [Footnote 78: This is asserted by Diogenes upon the authority of [Greek: Phi/lippos o( Megriko/s], whom he cites [Greek: kata\ le/xin]. We do not know anything about Philippus. Menedêmus, who spoke with contempt of the other philosophers, even of Plato and Xenokrates, admired Stilpon (Diog. L. ii. 134).] [Footnote 79: The phrase of Diogenes is here singular, and must probably have been borrowed from a partisan--[Greek: ô(/ste mikrou= deê=sai pa=san tê\n E(lla/da a)phorô=san ei)s au)to\n megari/sai]. Stilpon [Greek: eu(resilogi/a| kai\ sophistei/a| proê=ge tou\s a)/llous--kompso/tatos] (Diog. L. ii. 113-115).] [Footnote 80: Diog. L. ii. 119-120. [Greek: psuchroi/].] [Side-note: Menedêmus and the Eretriacs.]