The Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersDiogenes Laertius
Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius
Philosophers, Ancient -- Biography; Philosophy, Ancient
II. And from this circumstance, people have called his dialogues leathern
ones. But he has written thirty-three which, however, are all combined
in one volume:—On the Gods; on the Good; on the Honourable; what the
Honourable is; the first Dialogue on Justice; the second Dialogue on
Justice; on Virtue, showing that it is not to be taught; the first
Dialogue on Courage; the second; the third; on Laws; on the Art of
Guiding the People; on Honour; on Poetry; on Good Health; on Love; on
Philosophy; on Knowledge; on Music; on Poetry; on what the Honourable is;
on Teaching; on Conversation; on Judgment; on the Existent; on Number; on
Diligence; on Activity; on Covetousness; on Insolence; on the Honourable;
Some also add to these dialogues; on taking Counsel; on Reason or
Suitableness; on doing Harm.
III. He is, as some people say, the first writer who reduced the
conversations of Socrates into the form of dialogues. And when Pericles
offered to provide for him, and invited him to come to him, he said that
he would not sell his freedom of speech.
IV. There was also another Simon, who wrote a treatise on Oratorical Art.
And another, who was a physician in the time of Seleucus Nicanor. And
another, who was a statuary.
LIFE OF GLAUCO.
Glauco was an Athenian; and there are nine dialogues of his extant,
which are all contained in one volume. The Phidylus; the Euripides; the
Amyntichias; the Euthias; the Lysithides; the Aristophanes; the Cephalus;
the Anaxiphemus; the Menexenus. There are thirty-two others which go
under his name, but they are spurious.
LIFE OF SIMIAS.
Simias was a Theban; and there are twenty-three dialogues of his extant,
contained in one single volume. On Wisdom; on Ratiocination; on Music; on
Verses; on Fortitude; on Philosophy; on Truth; on Letters; on Teaching;
on Art; on Government; on what is Becoming; on what is Eligible, and what
Proper to be Avoided; on A Friend; on Knowledge; on the Soul; on Living
Well; on what is Possible; on Money; on Life; on what the Honourable is;
on Industry; and on Love.
LIFE OF CEBES.
Cebes was a Theban, and there are three dialogues of his extant. The
Tablet; the Seventh; and the Phrynichus.
LIFE OF MENEDEMUS.
I. This Menedemus was one of those who belonged to the school of Phædo;
and he was one of those who are called Theopropidæ, being the son of
Clisthenes, a man of noble family, but a poor man and a builder. And
some say that he was a tent-maker, and that Menedemus himself learned
both trades. On which account, when he on one occasion brought forward
a motion for some decree, a man of the name of Alexinius attacked him,
saying that a wise man had no need to draw a tent nor a decree.
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