[45] Diog. 185, mentions it as deserving of especial notice, that he
refused the invitation of Ptolemy to court, and dedicated none of his
numerous writings to a prince.
[46] Cic. Acad. ii. 47, 143. Diog. 179. Plut. Sto. Rep. 4, 1, p. 1034.
According to the latter passage, Antipater had written a special
treatise περὶ τῆς Κλεάνθους καὶ Χρυσίππου διαφορᾶς.
[47] Quid enim est a Chrysippo prætermissum in Stoicis? Cic. Fin. i. 2,
6.
[48] According to Diog. 180, there were not fewer than 750. Conf.
Valer. Max. viii. 7, ext. 10; Lucian, Hermotim. 48.
[49] This appeared to the Epicureans disparaging to the honour of their
master. Hence the charge that Chrysippus had written against Epicurus
in rivalry (Diog. x. 26, and the criticism of Apollodorus in Diog. vii.
181).
[50] Baguet, pp. 114–357, discusses the subject very fully, but omits
several fragments. As to his logical treatises, of which alone there
were 311 (Diog. 198), see Nicolai, De logicis Chrysippi libris:
Quedlinb. 1859. Prantl, Gesch. d. Log. i. 404. Petersen (Philosoph.
Chrysip. Fundamenta: Hamburg, 1827, 321) attempts a systematic
arrangement of all the known books.
[51] See Cic. De Orat. i. 11, 50; Dionys. Hal. See above 46, 3; Diog.
vii. 180; x. 27. Galen, Differ. Puls. ii. 10; vol. viii. 631 K;
Hippocr. et Plat. Plac. ii. 2; iii. 2; vol. v. 213, 295, 308, 312, 314,
and Baguet, 26. See also Plut. Sto. Rep. 28, 2; and Bergk, Commentat.
de Chrys. lib. περὶ ἀποφατικῶν: Cassel, 1841.
[52] The circumstances of his death are related differently in Diog.
184; but both stories are untrustworthy. The story of the ass is also
told in Lucian, Macrob. 25 of Philemon; the other version in Diog. iv.
44; 61 of Arcesilaus and Lacydes. On the statue of Chrysippus in the
Ceramicus see Diog. vii. 182; Cic. Fin. i. 11, 39; Pausan. i. 17, 2;
Plut. Sto. Rep. 2, 5.
[53] In Stob. Floril. 40, 8, mention is made of the honourable position
enjoyed by the Athenian Chremonides, who had been banished from his
country. The banishment of Chremonides being placed in the year 263
B.C., Teles’ treatise περὶ φυγῆς must have been written between 260 and
250 B.C. This is further proved by the fact that there is no reference
in the fragments preserved to persons or circumstances later than this
date. The philosophers to whom reference is made are the Cynics
Diogenes, Crates, Metrocles, Stilpo, Bio the Borysthenite, Zeno, and
Cleanthes (95, 21), the latter being called ὁ Ἄσσιος.
[54] Floril. 5, 67; 40, 8; 91, 33; 93, 31; 98, 72; 108, 82 and 83.
[55] According to Suid., he was born c. 275 B.C., and died in his 80th
year.
[56] See p. 41, 2.
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