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D.L. 2.58-60 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
In deeds of Greece, how bright his lesson shone ! How fair was wisdom seen in Socrates ! @ There is another on the circumstances of his death ®: Albeit the countrymen of Cranaus and Cecrops condemned thee, Xenophon, to exile on account of thy friendship for Cyrus, yet hospitable Corinth welcomed thee, so well content with the delights of that city wast thou, and there didst resolve to take up thy rest. In other authorities I find the statement that he flourished, along with the other Socratics, in the 89th Olympiad,’ and Istrus affirms that he was banished by a decree of Eubulus and recalled by a decree of the same man. There have been seven Xenophons: the first our subject himself; the second an Athenian, brother of Pythostratus, who wrote the Theseid, and himself the author, amongst other works, of a biography of Epaminondas and Pelopidas ; the third a physician of Cos ; the fourth the author of a history of Hannibal ; the fifth an authority on legendary marvels; the sixth a sculptor, of Paros; the seventh a poet of the Old Comedy. Cuaprer 7. AESCHINES (c. 400 B.c.) Aeschines was the son of Charinus the sausagemaker, but others make his father’s name Lysanias. He was a citizen of Athens, industrious from his birth up. For this reason he never quitted Socrates ; hence Socrates’ remark, ‘‘ Only the sausage-maker’s son knows how to honour me.”’ IJdomeneus declared

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. I (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L184) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
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