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D.L. 7.174-176 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
Of Litigation. Of Education. Of Logic, three books. Of the End. Of Beauty. Of Conduct. Of Knowledge. Of Kingship. Of Friendship. On the Banquet. On the Thesis that Virtue is the same in Man and in Woman. On the Wise Man turning Sophist. Of Usages. Lectures, two books. Of Pleasure. On Properties. On Insoluble Problems. Of Dialectic. Of Moods or Tropes. Of Predicates. This, then, is the list of his works. His end was as follows. He had severe inflammation of the gums, and by the advice of his doctors he abstained from food for two whole days. As it happened, this treatment succeeded, so that the doctors were for allowing him to resume his usual diet. To this, however, he would not consent, but declaring that he had already got too far on the road, he went on fasting the rest of his days until his death at the same age as Zeno according to some authorities, having spent nineteen years as Zeno's pupil. My lighter verse a on him runs thus :

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
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)
license: public-domain (US: published 1925, pre-1930 — the MCMXXV title page verified from the scan itself; only the English rectos are served, Hicks's translation)