in things indifferent, but treating them all alike. The wise man he compared to a good actor, who. if called upon to take the part of a Thersites or of an Agamemnon, will impersonate them both becomingly. He wished to discard both Logic and Physics, -lying that Physic^ was beyond our reach and Logic did not concern us : all that did concern us was Ethics. Dialectical reasonings, he said, are like spiders' webs, which, though they seem to display some artistic workmanship, are yet of no use. He would not admit a plurality of yirtues with Zeno, nor again with the Megarians one single yirtue called by many names ; but he treated yirtue in accordance with the category of relatiye modes. Teaching this sort of philosophy, and lecturing in the Cynosarges, he acquired such influence as to be called the founder of a sect. At any rate Miltiades and Diphilus were denominated Aristoneans. He was a plausible speaker and suited the taste of the general public. Hence Timon's yerse about him a : One who from wily Ariston's line boasts his descent. 6 After meeting Polemo, says Diocles of Magnesia, while Zeno was suffering from a protracted illness, he recanted his views. The Stoic doctrine to which he attached most importance was the wise man's refusal to hold mere opinions. And against this doctrine Persaeus was contending when he induced one of a pair of twins to deposit a certain sum with Ariston and afterwards got the other to reclaim it. Ariston being thus reduced to perplexity was refuted. He was at variance with Arcesilaus ; and one day when he saw an abortion in the shape of a bull with