Roman Stoicism: being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman EmpireArnold, Edward Vernon
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Roman Stoicism: being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire
Arnold, Edward Vernon
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[29] On Xenophanes see Gomperz, i pp. 155-164; Adam, pp. 198-211.
[30] ‘Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men, unless their souls have
wit’ Heracl. _Fr._ 4 (Bywater), 107 (Diels).
[31] ‘Much learning does not teach sense, else it had taught Hesiod and
Pythagoras, Xenophanes and Hecataeus’ _Fr._ 16 B, 40 D.
[32] ‘The Word is common, yet most men live as if they owned a private
understanding’ _Fr._ 92 B, 2 D.
[33] ‘All things move and nothing remains’ Plato _Crat._ 402 A.
[34] ‘Listening not to me but to the Word it is reasonable to confess
that all things are one’ _Fr._ 1 B, 50 D.
[35] ‘All things change with fire and fire with all things, as gold with
goods and goods with gold’ _Fr._ 22 B, 90 D; ‘neither God nor man created
this World-order (κόσμος), which is the same for all beings: but it has
been and shall be an ever-living fire’ _Fr._ 20 B, 30 D.
[36] ‘The fire shall one day come, judge all things and condemn them’
_Fr._ 26 B, 66 D.
[37] ‘Whilst we live, our souls are dead and buried in us; but when we
die, our souls revive and live’ Sext. _Pyrrh. inst._, iii 230 (_Fr._ 78
B, 88 D).
[38] ‘This Word is always existent’ _Fr._ 2 B, 1 D.
[39] _ib._
[40] ‘There is but one wisdom, to understand the judgment by which all
things are steered through all’ _Fr._ 19 B, 41 D.
[41] ‘Men fail in comprehension before they have heard the Word and at
first even after they have heard it.... Other men do not observe what
they do when they are awake, just as they forget what they do when
asleep’ _Fr._ 2 B, 1 D.
[42] _Fr._ 91 B, 114 D.
[43] Adam, pp. 217-222.
[44] Gomperz, i p. 63.
[45] See Gladisch, _Herakleitos und Zoroaster_; Ueberweg, _Grundriss_, p.
39; above, § 13.
[45a] Gladisch traces this dualism in Heraclitus under the names of Zeus
and Hades (see his p. 26, note 39).
[45b] Clem. _Strom._ i 14; Suidas, s. v. Herakleitos. (Gladisch, pp. 65,
75).
[46] _Agam._ 155-161, 167-171.
[47] Gomperz, ii p. 13.
[48] ‘Half professor and half journalist—this is the best formula that we
can devise to characterise the sophist of the 5th century B.C.’ Gomperz,
i p. 414.
[49] See below, §§ 124, 130, and 131.
[50] Gomperz, i p. 428.
[51] Xen. _Mem._ ii 1, 21 to 34.
[52] Gomperz, i p. 430.
[53] See below, § 89.
[54] Gomperz, i p. 433.
[55] _ib._ p. 437.
[56] Arist. _Phys._ viii 1; and see below, § 173.
[56a] Xen. _Mem._ i 1, 18.
[57] Plato, _Apol._ p. 32.
[58] Plato, _Crito_, p. 44 sqq.
[59] Gomperz, ii p. 48.
[60] Cic. _Ac._ i 4, 15; _Tusc. disp._ v 4, 10.
[61] Sen. _Ep._ 71, 7.
[62] Xen. _Mem._ iii 7.
[63] Xen. _Mem._ iv 6, 1; Epict. _Disc._ i 7, 11.
[64] Xen. _Mem._ iv 5, 12; Arist. _Met._ xiii 4.
[65] Xen. _Mem._ iv 7, 10. The Socratic μαντική must not be taken too
seriously; it is only one of many tentative suggestions for explaining
the process of reasoning, akin to our modern use of the term ‘genius’ in
connexion with achievements in poetry and art.
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