desires under controul,--was in his judgment the true policy of life. But he was not solicitous to grasp enjoyment beyond what was easily attainable, nor to accumulate wealth or power which did not yield positive result.[188] While Sokrates recommended, and Antisthenes practised, the precaution of deadening the sexual appetite by approaching no women except such as were ugly and repulsive,[189]--while Xenophon in the Cyropædia,[190] working out the Sokratic idea of the dangerous fascination of beauty, represents Cyrus as refusing to see the captive Pantheia, and depicts the too confident Araspes (who treats such precaution as exaggerated timidity, and fully trusts his own self-possession), when appointed to the duty of guarding her, as absorbed against his will in a passion which makes him forget all reason and duty--Aristippus has sufficient self-mastery to visit the most seductive Hetæræ without being drawn into ruinous extravagance or humiliating subjugation. We may doubt whether he ever felt, even for Lais, a more passionate sentiment than Plato in his Epigram expresses towards the Kolophonian Hetæra Archeanassa. [Footnote 180: Diog. L. ii. 67. [Greek: ou)/tôs ê)=n kai\ e(le/sthai kai\ kataphronê=sai polu\s.]] [Footnote 181: Diog. L. ii. 66. [Greek: ê)=n de\ i(kano\s a(rmo/sasthai kai\ to/pô| kai\ chro/nô| kai\ prosô/pô|, kai\ pa=san peri/stasin a(rmoni/ôs u(pokri/nasthai; dio\ kai\ para\ Dionusi/ô| tô=n a)/llôn êu)doki/mei ma=llon, a)ei\ to\ prospeso\n eu)= diatithe/menos; a)pe/laue me\n ga\r ê(donê=s tô=n paro/ntôn, ou)k e)thê/ra de\ po/nô| tê\n a)po/lausin tô=n ou) paro/ntôn]. Horat. Epistol. i. 17, 23-24:-- "Omnis Aristippum decuit color et status et res, Tentantem majora, ferè præsentibus æquum."] [Footnote 182: Sophokles, Philoktêtes, 1049 (the words of Odysseus).] [Footnote 183: Diog. L. ii. 75. [Greek: e)/chrêto kai\ Lai+/di tê=| e(tai/ra|; pro\s ou)=n tou\s memphome/nous e)/phê, E)/chô Lai+/da, a)ll' ou)k e)/chomai; e)pei\ to\ kratei=n kai\ mê\ ê(tta=sthai ê(donô=n, a)/riston--ou) to\ mê\ chrê=sthai]. ii. 77, [Greek: Dionusi/ou pote\ e)rome/nou, e)pi\ ti/ ê(/koi, e)/phê, e)pi\ tô=| metadô/sein ô(=n e)/choi, kai\ metalê/psesthai ô(=n mê\ e)/choi]. Lucian introduces [Greek: A)retê\] and [Greek: Truphê\] as litigating before [Greek: Di/kê] for the possession of Aristippus: the litigation is left undecided (Bis Accusatus, c. 13-23).] [Footnote 184 Xenophon, Oeconomic. iii. 13, vii. 6, Ischomachus says to Sokrates about his wife, [Greek: Kai\ ti/ a)\n e)pistame/nên au)tê\n pare/labon, ê(\ e)/tê me\n ou)/pô pentekai/deka gegonui=a ê)=lthe pro\s e)me/, to\n d' e)mprosthen _chro/non e)/zê u(po\ pollê=s e)pimelei/as, o(/pôs ô(s e)/lachista me\n o)/psoito, e)la/chista d' a)kou/soito, e)la/chista de\ e)/roito?_]]