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"As Aristotle makes Plato, Pythagoras, Zeno, Democritus, Chrysippus, Parmenides and Heraclitus the basis and substance of his learning and teaching, so does he use Epicurus," who is extolled with "wonderful praises as the best and holiest of men" by Seneca, Lucretius, and Laertius.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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They even wrote treatises on them (e.g. Diogenes Laertius 4.13).
Numenius Karamanolis, George 2009
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Diogenes Laertius (9.60) ascribes to him an attitude of apatheia and eukolia,
Picnic 2009
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The most significant of these is a passage from near the beginning of Diogenes Laertius 'life of Pyrrho
Picnic 2009
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We hear that Plato was accused of having copied the Timaeus from Philolaus 'book (Diogenes Laertius 8.85) and in the 3rd c.
Numenius Karamanolis, George 2009
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Laertius adds that Xenophanes “was driven out of his homeland” when Harpagus the Mede invaded Ionia in 546/5 B.C.,
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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Laertius 'statement (A1) that Xenophanes “wrote in epic meter, also elegiacs, and iambics” is confirmed by extant poems in hexameters and elegiac meter, with one couplet (B14) a combination of hexameter and iambic trimeter.
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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Not much can be made of this account of Pyrrho's life, for Laertius has a penchant for fantastic stories and is willing to stretch his lives to include them.
Ancient Skepticism Groarke, Leo 2008
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CHAPTER 2: A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS 1. The phrase “refusal or refusing to accept the gods of the state”—which is sometimes translated as “not believing in the gods the state believes in”—appears in accounts of the trial by Plato, Xenophon, and Diogenes Laertius.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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CHAPTER 2: A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS 1. The phrase “refusal or refusing to accept the gods of the state”—which is sometimes translated as “not believing in the gods the state believes in”—appears in accounts of the trial by Plato, Xenophon, and Diogenes Laertius.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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