bodily strength is far greater, and if you associate with these you will in no way fall short of the conditions necessary to perfect happiness." So he sent Persaeus and Philonides the Theban and Epicurus in his letter to his brother Aristobulus mentions them both as living with Antigonus. 1 have thought it well to append the decree also which the Athenians passed concerning him. It reads as follows ° : " In the archonship of Arrhenides, in the fifth prytany of the tribe Acamantis on the twenty-first day of Maemacterion, at the twenty-third plenary assembly of the prytany, one of the presidents, Hippo, the son of Cratistoteles, of the deme Xypetaeon, and his co-presidents put the question to the vote ; Thraso, the son of Thraso of the deme Anaeaea, moved : <; Whereas Zeno of Citium, son of Mnaseas, has for many years been devoted to philosophy in the city and has continued to be a man of worth in all other respects, exhorting to virtue and temperance those of the youth who come to him to be taught, directing them to what is best, affording to all in his own conduct a pattern for imitation in perfect consistency with his teaching, it has seemed good to the people and may it turn out well — to bestow praise upon Zeno of Citium, the son of Mnaseas, and to crown him with a golden crown according to the law, for his goodness and temperance, and to build him a tomb in the Ceramicus at the public cost. And that for the making of the crown and the building of the tomb, the people shall now elect five commissioners decrees, ( i ) voting a crown to Zeno in his life-time, (2) decreeing a public funeral after his death.