[3] ‘Plato combined the various elements, the, so to speak, prismatically broken rays of the Socratic spirit in a new, higher, and richer unity’ Ueberweg, Eng. transl. i p. 89. [4] ‘The philosophy of Greece reached its highest point in Plato and Aristotle’ Zeller, _Stoics_ etc., p. 11. ‘The bloom of Greek philosophy was short lived’ _ib._ p. 10. [5] The phrases ‘cum Platone errare,’ ‘amicus Plato, magis amica veritas’ agree in expressing the general incredulity with which Platonism was received in the ancient world. In our own days an ill-balanced sympathy for Platonic dogma is often a serious hindrance to philosophic progress. [6] See further, § 284. [7] See below, § 179. [8] Aristotle, _Physics_, ii 7. [9] See below, § 173. [10] εἰ δ’ ἐν ζῴῳ τοῦτο δυνατὸν γενέσθαι, τί κωλύει τὸ αὐτὸ συμβῆναι καὶ κατὰ τὸ πᾶν; εἰ γὰρ ἐν μικρῷ κόσμῳ γίνεται, καὶ ἐν μεγάλῳ Ar. _Phys._ viii 2, 252 b. [11] See Ueberweg’s note, i (Eng. trans., pp. 178-180; tenth German edition, pp. 238-240), and below, § 362. [12] ‘vitae autem degendae ratio maxime quidem illis [Peripateticis] placuit quieta, in contemplatione et cognitione posita rerum; quae quia deorum erat vitae simillima, sapiente visa est dignissima’ Cic. _Fin._ v 4, 11. [13] See note 15, below. [14] Clem. _Strom._ ii p. 419 a. [15] ‘honeste autem vivere, fruentem rebus eis, quas primas homini natura conciliet, et vetus Academia censuit (ut indicant scripta Polemonis), et Aristoteles eiusque amici huc proxime videntur accedere’ Cic. _Ac._ ii 42, 131. Here Prof. J. S. Reid suggests that Polemo may merely have used the phrase κατὰ φύσιν ζῆν, as opposed to κατὰ θέσιν (conventionally). [16] ‘quem [_sc._ Arcesilan] ferunt ... primum instituisse, non quid ipse sentiret ostendere, sed contra id, quod quisque se sentire dixisset, disputare’ Cic. _de Or._ iii 18, 67. ‘Arcesilas negabat esse quidquam quod sciri posset, ne illud quidem ipsum, quod Socrates sibi reliquisset’ _Ac._ i 12, 45. [17] ‘[cuius] ratio probabilis possit reddi’ Cic. _Fin._ iii 17, 58. See further below, §§ 105, 332. [18] See especially §§ 113 and 123. [19] Cic. _Fin._ iv 28, 79. [20] ‘non dolere ... Hieronymus summum bonum esse dixit’ _ib._ v 25, 73. [21] ‘at vero Callipho, et post eum Diodorus, cum alter voluptatem adamavisset, alter vacuitatem doloris: neuter honestate carere potuit, quae est a nostris laudata maxime’ _ib._ [22] _ib._ 25, 75. [23] _Off._ i 1, 1. [24] ‘[Stoici] quidem non unam aliquam aut alteram a nobis, sed totam ad se nostram philosophiam transtulerunt. atque, ut reliqui fures, earum rerum, quas ceperunt, signa commutant, sic illi, ut sententiis nostris pro suis uterentur, nomina, tanquam rerum notas, mutaverunt’ _Fin._ v 25, 74. [25] Ζήνωνα τὸν Φοίνικα, Athen. _Deipnos._ xiii 2; ‘tuus ille Poenulus,’ ‘e Phoenicia profecti’ Cic. _Fin._ iv 20, 56. [26] Diog. L. vii 31 and 32.