Here Cittium’s pride, wise Zeno, lies, who climb’d The summits of Olympus; but unmoved By wicked thoughts ne’er strove to raise on Ossa The pine-clad Pelion; nor did he emulate Th’ immortal toils of Hercules; but found A new way for himself to th’ highest heaven, By virtue, temperance, and modesty. And Zenodotus, the Stoic, a disciple of Diogenes, wrote another:— You made contentment the chief rule of life, Despising haughty wealth, O God-like Zeno. With solemn look, and hoary brow serene, You taught a manly doctrine; and didst found By your deep wisdom, a great novel school, Chaste parent of unfearing liberty. And if your country was Phœnicia, Why need we grieve, from that land Cadmus came, Who gave to Greece her written books of wisdom. And Athenæus, the Epigrammatic poet, speaks thus of all the Stoics in common:— O, ye who’ve learnt the doctrines of the Porch, And have committed to your books divine The best of human learning; teaching men That the mind’s virtue is the only good. And she it is who keeps the lives of men, And cities, safer than high gates or walls. But those who place their happiness in pleasure, Are led by the least worthy of the Muses. And we also have ourselves spoken of the manner of Zeno’s death, in our collection of poems in all metres, in the following terms:— Some say that Zeno, pride of Cittium, Died of old age, when weak and quite worn out; Some say that famine’s cruel tooth did slay him; Some that he fell, and striking hard the ground, Said, “See, I come, why call me thus impatiently?” For some say that this was the way in which he died. And this is enough to say concerning his death. XXVII. But Demetrius, the Magnesian, says, in his essay on People of the Same Name, that his father Mnaseas often came to Athens, as he was a merchant, and that he used to bring back many of the books of the Socratic philosophers, to Zeno, while he was still only a boy; and that, from this circumstance, Zeno had already become talked of in his own country; and that in consequence of this he went to Athens, where he attached himself to Crates. And it seems, he adds, that it was he who first recommended a clear enunciation of principles, as the best remedy for error. He is said, too, to have been in the habit of swearing “By Capers,” as Socrates swore “By the Dog.”