[14] ‘ain’ tandem? etiam a Stoicis ista [de optima republica] tractata sunt? non sane, nisi a [Diogene Stoico] et postea a Panaetio’ _Leg._ iii 6, 14. [15] See below, § 310, note 52. [16] ‘[accepi] Publi Africani in legatione illa nobili Panaetium unum omnino comitem fuisse’ Cic. _Ac._ ii 2, 5. [17] This date is determined on circumstantial evidence by Schmekel, pp. 2, 3. [18] ‘Scylax Halicarnasseus, familiaris Panaeti, excellens in astrologia, idemque in regenda sua civitate princeps’ Cic. _Div._ ii 42, 88. [19] ‘omnes enim trahimur et ducimur ad cognitionis et scientiae cupidinem; in qua excellere pulchrum putamus; labi autem, errare, nescire, decipi, et malum et turpe ducimus’ _Off._ i 6, 18; ‘cum sit is [Panaetius], qui id solum bonum iudicet, quod honestum sit, quae autem huic repugnent specie quadam utilitatis, eorum neque accessione meliorem vitam fieri, neque decessione peiorem’ _ib._ iii 3, 12. [20] ‘quod summum bonum a Stoicis dicitur, id habet hanc, ut opinor, sententiam, cum virtute congruere semper, cetera autem, quae secundum naturam essent, ita legere, si ea virtuti non repugnarent’ _Off._ iii 3, 13. [21] ‘Panaetius, cum ad Q. Tuberonem de dolore patiendo scriberet ... nusquam posuit non esse malum dolorem’ _Fin._ iv 9, 23; see however below, § 322, note 132. [22] See below, ch. xiii. [23] ‘cuius [veri investigationis] studio a rebus gerendis abduci contra officium est. virtutis enim laus omnis in actione consistit; a qua tamen fit intermissio saepe, multique dantur ad studia reditus’ Cic. _Off._ i 6, 19. [24] He was however a skilled grammarian; see Schmekel, p. 207. [25] He wrote a book ‘on providence’; how far he or Posidonius is Cicero’s authority for the treatment of the subject in _Nat. de._ ii has been much disputed; on this point see Schmekel, p. 8, n. 4. [26] ‘id de quo Panaetium addubitare dicebant, ut ad extremum omnis mundus ignesceret’ Cic. _N. D._ ii 46, 118. [27] Schmekel, p. 309, and below, § 211. [28] Παναίτιος πιθανωτέραν εἶναι νομίζει καὶ μᾶλλον ἀρέσκουσαν αὑτῷ τὴν ἀϊδιότητα τοῦ κόσμου ἢ τὴν τῶν ὅλων εἰς πῦρ μεταβολήν Ar. Did. fr. 36 (Diels). [29] Schmekel, p. 309. [30] ‘vim esse divinandi [Panaetius] dubitare se dixit’ Cic. _Div._ i 3, 6. [31] He came from Apamea in Syria, but is often described as ‘of Rhodes,’ as the latter part of his life was spent there. [32] Schmekel, pp. 9, 10. [33] _ib._ p. 428. [34] Reid, _Cic. Acad._ Introd. p. 5. [35] Cic. _Tusc. disp._ ii 25, 61. [36] _N. D._ i 44, 123; ii 34, 88. [37] ‘ecce Posidonius, ut mea fert opinio, ex his qui plurimum philosophiae contulerunt’ Sen. _Ep._ 90, 20. [38] See below, § 195. [39] Also the _de Divinatione_ and the first half of _Tusc. disp._ i; Schmekel, p. 98, etc. [40] ‘de divinatione libros edidit ... quinque noster Posidonius’ Cic. _Div._ i 3, 6. [41] ‘animi vitae necessitatibus serviunt, disiunguntque se a societate divina, vinclis corporis impediti’ _ib._ 49, 110.