a uterus, he said, " Alas, here Areesilaus has had given into his hand an argument against the evidence of the senses." When some Academic alleged that he had no certainty of anything, Ariston said, " Do you not even see your neighbour sitting by you ? " and when the other answered " No," he rejoined, Who can have blinded you ? who robbed you of luminous eyesight ? The books attributed to him are as follows : Exhortations, two books. Of Zeno's Doctrines. Dialogues. Lectures, six books. Dissertations on Philosophy, seven books. Dissertations on Love. Commonplaces on Vainglory. Notebooks, twenty-five volumes. Memorabilia, three books. Anecdotes, eleven books. Against the Rhetoricians. An Answer to the Counter-pleas of Alexinus. Against the Dialecticians, three books. Letters to Cleanthes, four books. Panaetius and Sosicrates consider the Letters to be alone genuine ; all the other works named they attribute to Ariston the Peripatetic. The story goes that being bald he had a sunstroke and so came to his end. I have composed a trifling poem upon him in limping iambics as follows a :
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
Ariston — a candidate entry Cleanthes — a candidate entry Peripatetic — a candidate entry Zeno — a candidate entry
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L185) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
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