BOUGHT fV^ITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF 189Z AMJ.fA'f. u/l//t^ CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 924 079 584 771 PA THE FEAGMENTS OF ZENO AND CLEANTHES. aonfion: C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. fflmtalse: DBI6HT0N, BELL, AND CO. Hefmig: F. A. BROCEHAUS. iJtta Sort: MACMILLAN AND CO. THE FRAGMENTS OF ZENO AND CLEANTHES WITH INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. AN ESSAY WHICH OBTAINED THE HARE PEIZE IN THE YEAR 1889. BY i^' Jf} CT PEARSON, M.A. LATE SCHOIiAB OF OHBISl's COLLEGE, CAMBBIDGE. LONDON: C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBBIDGE UNIVERSITY PEESS WAEEHOUSE. 1891 [All Bights reserved.] CambriSge: PKINTED BY 0. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SONS, AT I'HE UNIVEEBITY PRESS. PREFACE. rilHIS dissertation is published in accordance with the -^ conditions attached to the Hare Prize, and appears nearly in its original form. For many reasons, however, I should have desired to subject the work to a more searching revision than has been practicable under the circumstances. Indeed, error is especially difficult to avoid in dealing with a large body of scattered authorities, the majority of which can only be consulted in a public library. The obligations, which require to be acknowledged for the present collection of the fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes, are both special and general. The former are soon disposed of In the Neue Jahrbucher fur Philo- logie for 1873, p. 43.t foil., Wellmann published an article on Zeno of Citium, which was the first serious attempt to discriminate the teaching of Zeno from that of the Stoa in general. The omissions of Wellmann were supplied and the first complete collection of the fragments of Cleanthes was made by Wachsmuth in two Gottingen programs published in 1874 — 1875 {Gommentationes I et II de Zetione Citiensi et Cleanthe Assio). Mullaeh's collection of the fragments of Cleanthes in vol. I of the Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecoruvi is so inadequate as hardly to deserve mention. VI PREFACE. ■ Among the general aids the first place is claimed by Zeller's Philosophie der Griechen, which has been con- stantly consulted. The edition referred to is the Second edition of the English Translation of the part dealing with the Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics, which appeared in 1880. In a few cases the fourth German edition has also been quoted. Keference is also made to the English Translations of the other parts of Zeller's book, wherever available. Except incidentally, Zeller gives up the at- tempt to trace the development of the Stoa in the hands of its successive leaders, and this deficiency is to some extent supplied by the ingenious work of Hirzel, die Entwicklwig der Stoischen Philosophie, forming the second volume of his Untersuchungen zu Cicero's Philosophischen Schriften. To Hirzel belongs the credit of having vin- dicated the originality of Cleanthes against ancient and modem detractors, although in working out his views he often argues on somewhat shadowy foundations, and has unduly depreciated the importance of the contributions made by Zeno. Lastly, Stein's two books die Psychologie der Stoa (1886), and die Erkenntnistheorie der Stoa (1888), have been of great service, and his views, where he disagrees with Hirzel, have been generally adopted. Many other books have of course been consulted and will be found cited from time to time, among which Krische's die theologischen Lehren der Griechischen Denker, and Diels' Boxographi Graeci, deserve special mention. Al- though the results arrived at have been checked by the aid of modern writers, the ancient authorities and es- pecially Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, Stobaeus (Eclogae), and Oicero have been throughout treated as the primary source of information. The refer- ences to Stobaeus are accommodated to Wachsmuth's edition (Berlin, 1884). Susemihl'a article on the birth- PREFACE. Vll year of Zeno in the Nev£ Jahrhucher fur Philologie for 1889 appeared too late to be utilised for the introduction. A word must be said with reference to the plan of the present collection. No attempt has been made to disentangle in every case the words of the writer from the body of the citation in which they appear. Although this is practicable in some cases, in others it is mere guess-work, and a uniform system has therefore been adopted. For similar reasons the fragments have been arranged as far as possible in natural sequence, without regard to the comparatively few cases in which we know the names of the books from which they were derived. However, the arrangement has been a matter of much perplexity, especially in those cases where the authorities overlap each other, and several modifications in the order would have been introduced as the result of a larger experience, were it not that each alteration throws all the references into confusion. The collection was made and put together practically in its present form before an opportunity offered of consulting Wachsmuth's pamphlets, and it was satisfactory to find that only a few of his passages had been missed. On the other hand, the ad- ditional matter which will be found here for the first time is not large. It may, therefore, be reasonably concluded that we now possess the greater portion of the material, which is available for reconstructing the history of the earlier Stoa. For the sake of completeness I have included even those notices, whose authenticity is open to suspicion, as well as a collection of the so-called Apophthegmata, though it is often impossible to draw a strict line between written and oral tradition. I desire to thank Mr R. D. Hicks, Fellow of Trinity College, for many valuable suggestions and criticisms. COBRIGENDA. p. 37, 1. 13, for "he was only able" read "he alone was able". ■p. 63, 1. 23, add " see however on Cleanth. frag. 114." INTRODUCTION. § 1. Life of Zeno. The chronology of Zeno's life', formei'ly a subject of much dispute, has been almost entirely cleared up by an important passage discovered in one of the papyrus rolls found at Hercu- laneum, which contains a history of the Stoic philosophers and was first edited by Comparetti in 1875^. From this we learn that Cleanthes was born in 331 B.c.,„and, as we know from other sources' th9,t he lived to the age of 99, he must have died in B.C. 232 in the archonship of Jason*. But, according to the papyrus (col. 29), at the time of his death he had pre- sided over the School for 32 years*, which fixes the death of Zeno as having taken place in B.C. 264, thus confirming the authority of Jerome, who says under the year 01. 129, 1 = b.c. 264, 3" "Zeno Stoicus moritur post quem Cleanthes philosophus agnoscitur." Now, in Diog. Laert. vu. 28 we have two distinct 1 See Eohde in Rhein. Mus. 33, p. 622. Gomperz ib. 34, p. 154. Susemihl's article in Fleckeisen's Jahrb. for 1882, vol. 125, pp. 737—746, does not add anything to our knowledge of the chronology of Zeno's life. " Col. 28, 29. Comparetti believes this book to be the work of Philodemus. 3 Lucian Macrob. 19. Val. Max. viii. 7, Ext. 11. * So too the papyrus eol. 28 (i)TrT)Wi,y(Ti iw' &pxo'''''os 'l)di\oir6 1—2 4 INTRODUCTION. and must be taken in connection with his opinion that Zeno lived till he was -98 years of age. Probably, ApoUonius adopted the tradition that Zeno came to Athens at the age of thirty, and allowed ten years for the period of tuition. He must have assigned B.C. 322 as the date of the foundation of the Stoa, which is obviously far too early. According to the chronology adopted above, Zeno came to Athens about B.C. 314, and, if so, he cannot have been a pupil of Xenocrates, who died in that year. All that can be said with any approach to certainty is that after a somewhat extended period of study under Crates, Stilpo, and Polemo, Zeno at length, probably soon after 300 B.C. ', began to take pupils on his own account, without attaching himself to any of the then existing philo- sophical schools. These pupils were at first called Zenonians, but when their master held his lectures in the Stoa Poikile, they adopted the name of Stoics which they afterwards retained^. Though not yet rivalling the Peripatetic school in respect of the number of its followers', the Stoic philosophy steadily won its way into general esteem no less by the personal influ- ence of its founder than through the fervour of its adherents. So great, indeed, was the respect which the character of Zeno inspired at Athens, that shortly before his death ^ a decree ool. XI. (Here. vol. eoU. prior vol. viii.) For Zeno's teachers of. Nume- niua ap. Euseb. P. E. xiv. 5, p. 729 IloXf/iCiii/os Si iyivofTo yinbpifjuu. 'ApKeaCkaoi Kol 7ii)VoiTr)^upov. id. iii. 35 a /teXaxixpus. INTRODUCTION. 7 digestion. The last-named defect is said to have been the cause of his frugal diet', but this was no doubt also recom- mended to him by his philosophical views. In spite of his habitual abstinence, he enjoyed the company of his friends at a convivial banquet, where his severity relaxed with the wine he drank, just as (to use his own comparison) beans are im- proved by soaking ^ For the rest, he seems to have been a man of few words, but quick at repartee, disliking all dis- play and effeminacy, and generally of a somewhat stern and reserved cast of mind, though not without consideration for the wants of others. § 2. Stoicism as established by Zeno. It will be convenient at this point to summarise those leading doctrines which the e^ddence here collected establishes as having been introduced by Zeno into the Stoic school, with- out paying regard to isolated expressions or to views of minor philosophical importance. Zeno divided philosophy into three parts, logic, physics and ethics, and we may take them in the order named, as being that which he recommended. To the formal side of logic Zeno paid but little attention, regarding it as useful only for the detection of error, rather than as a means towards the establishment of truth. The doctrine of the four categories, and the elaborate treatment of diuoftara and syllogisms, belong almost entirely to Chrysippus, and, when we remember that out of 750 books which he is said to have written no fewer than 311 were devoted to logical studies, it is not improbable that he owed much of his reputation to his performances in this branch. In Zeno's eyes the most important division of logic was the question of the standard of knowledge, although strictly speaking this should rather be considered as belonging to psychology. He ' efj apTos, Sypov lirxas, imineiv vSuip. Philemon ap. Diog. L. vn. 27. 2 See Zeno apoph. 27. 8 INTRODUCTION. held that, though the senses themselves are unerring, the im- pressions they convey are often erroneous, and that only such impressions are to be trusted as are in themselves perspicuous. The ultimate test of truth resides in the strength of tension in the impression, as it strikes the sense-organ. If satisfied in this way that the impression is such that it must proceed from a real object, the mind in the exercise of its ever present activity grasps the impression, and assents to it. This is the meaning which Zeno expressed by saying that (ftavraata Kara- XtiKTiK-rj is the criterion of truth '. Diogenes Laertius, however, mentions certain afixo-ionpoi t<3v "SirioiKiav as teaching that opdoi A.dyos is the standard of truth. This passage has been treated by Hirzel (in whose judgment other authorities have concurred) as proving that Zeno and Cleanthes were the philo- sophers indicated, and that Chrysippus was the first to in- troduce the definition of the (fiavracria Ka.TaXrjirTi,Kij. The only other evidence, by which he connects Zeno with 6p06^ Xdyos, is Philo quis virtuti studet p. 880 appearing in our collection as frag. 157. To this might have been added Arr. Epict. diss. IV. 8. 12 (frag. 4) and Philodem. TrepI euVcyS. col. 8 (frag. 117). It is submitted, however, that these passages by no means prove the point in question, as against the positive testimony which attributes to Zeno the ^avrafTia. KaTaXryTmio]. In Philo there is no question of a logical criterion at all, but Zeno is ' As the matter is one of considerable importance, in order to relieve the notes, it is desirable to quote Stein's remarks (Erkenntnistheorie, p. 174): — "Mit Zeller musa man annehmen, dass das KaTaXijvnKov urspriinglich einen aktiven Sinn halte, da der Tonus desselben Zweifels- obne auf die diavota einwirkt. Andererseits muss man Hirzel wieder darin Becht geben, dass die 5i(bv(nv. The value of virtue is absolute and for all time : but, just as the supremacy of the monarch does not imply the absolute equality of his subjects, so the d,8ia.opa. are ranged between virtue and vice in a graduated scale of negative and positive value (aTra^ta and a^i'a), the middle place being oc- cupied by TO Kaddirai dSidopa, i.e. such matters as having an even or odd number of hairs in one's head. Everything possessing d$La is Kara. vcnv, and everything possessing dira^i'o is wapd KJyvcriv. At the same time d^ia is not a permanent attribute of any dZidopov, for that which is at one time Kara ' Cf. Stein, Psychologie p. 13. " Hirzel, Untersuohungen ii. p. 108, thinks otherwise and the point is certainly a doubtful one. If Zeno spoke only of human nature, Cleanthes may have here, as elsewhere, shown the oouuebtiou of ethical with physical doctrine by explaining 0i}vv(riv. Herein lies the vital distinction between aScai^opa and dyaOa, for the latter are unaffected by any possible change of circum- stances: a virtuous action can never be contrary to nature. Still, although there is not an absolute, there is yet a practical permanence in the value of certain ' things, which in the absence of some paramount objection (= Kara ■rrporiyovij.evov Xoyov or av€v ire/aicTTOo-ecus) we shall always choose in preference to their contraries. These then are the TrpoTjy/ieVa. Cor- responding with this classification of objects, we have a scale of actions ranging from KaTopOiofia (virtuous action) to dfidp- rr)fi.a (sinful action), wherein KadrJKov answers to the class of dSidtjiopa. Every KaJdfJKov is thus directed to the choice of ra Kara v(rtv and the avoidance of rci irapd KJiviriv. The doctrines of KaOrJKov and vporjyfiivov are not to be regarded as an excrescence foisted on to the Stoic system in consequence of the pressure of the arguments of opponents, but are an integral and necessary portion of the original structure as established by Zeno. The apparent inconsistency, which the application of these doctrines sometimes produces e.g. in the remarks on marriage, often disappears when we remember that the 7ro\iT£ta proposed to establish a socialistic constitution under which the importance of a8ui<^opa would be reduced to a minimum. Zeno held further that virtue is one and indivisible, springing from the t^yefwviKov, of which it is a fixed and permanent condition. Consistently with this, he maintains that all sinful actions are equally wrong, since all alike imply an aberration from a standard, which excludes increase or diminution. None the less, however, can we distinguish between different manifestations of virtue or separate virtues : virtue itself is identical with wisdom (<^pov7jo-is), and justice, courage, and temperance are the particular applications of wisdom in diverse spheres. Whether Zeno also distinguished between two different kinds of <^poV»;(rts, one as the ground- work, and the other as a particular species of virtue, must 16 INTRODUCTION. remain doubtful. Hirzel (I.e. p. 99) infers that he did, but Plutarch's words do not necessarily lead to such a conclusion, and we ought to hesitate to attribute such an inconsistency to Zeno without direct evidence. No doubt the Stoic school generally put forward four cardinal virtues povr;o-is, SiKaioa-vvrj, dvSpeta and a-oipocrvvr], but inasmuch as Zeno's position was admittedly modified by his successors we are left to judge of his views entirely from the two passages in Plutarch, in which he is mentioned by name. The theory of the emotions, which was introduced by Zeno, constitutes one of the most distinctive features of Stoic ethics. Whereas Plato and Aristotle agreed in admitting the legiti- macy of certain emotions, Zeno declared all alike to be sinful, as being due to an irrational and unnatural movement in the soul, or an excess of impulse. The four chief emotions are pleasure, grief, fear and desire, and Zeno in describing their nature dwelt, if we may trust Galen's statements, rather on the psychological effects of the irrational impulse upon the soul than on the mental conditions which produce them. The special difficulties surrounding this subject will be discussed in the notes to the fragments themselves. The whole of mankind was divided by Zeno into two classes, entirely distinct from one another, that of the wise and that of the foolish. Every action of the wise man is prompted by virtue and every action of the fool by vice. Hence it is generally true that the wise man performs every action well, and the fool fails in everything. Friendship, freedom, piety, riches, beauty, the arts of kingship and general- ship, even success in culinary operations belong to the wise man alone: he is never mistaken, never regrets what he has done, feels no compassion, and is absolutely free from every form of emotion. At the same time, it is clear that Zeno contemplates a progress from the state of folly to that of wisdom as practicable; this advance is characterised by the purgatioh of the soul from emotional and delusive affections under the influence of reason. Even though he ultimately INTRODUCTION. 17 emerges from the conflict with success, the wise man still feels the scars from the wounds he has received during its course, and is often reminded of his former evil impulses after he has completely suppressed them. Finally, since death belongs to the class a'Sta^opa, suicide is justifiable in the wise man, if circumstances prescribe such a course. It is obvious that a teacher, whose ethical views were of the nature, which we have just indicated, could not rest satisfied with the existing constitution of civic life in Greece. Equally unsatisfactory to him was the aristocratical com- munity of Plato, with the sharply drawn dividing line between the guardians and the rest of the citizens. For this reason Eros, the god of friendship and concord, is taken as the presiding deity of Zeno's ideal state, a state which in no way corresponds to the Greek ttoAis, but comprises the whole of mankind living together like a herd of cattle'. In this state there will be no temples, law-courts, or gymnasia; no work of human craftsmen is worthy of divine acceptance; the state must be adorned not with costly offerings, but by the virtues of its inhabitants. Zeno likewise advocates an abolition of coinage, a community of wives, and a thorough revolution of the current system of education. The remaining fragments, dealing mainly with particular KadiJKovra, do not require to be summarised here. § 3. Zeno's relation to previous philosophers. The opponents of the Stoic school were fond of accusing its members of plagiarism and want of originality. Zeno is the keen Phoenician trader, pilfering other men's wares, and passing them off as his own^: if all that belongs to others were withdrawn from the voluminous writings of Chrysippus, we should have a blank page^ Antiochus, in Cicero*, represents 1 Cf. Newman, Politics of Aristotle, vol. i. p. 88. 2 Cf. Diog. L. Tii. 25. 8 Diog. L. VII. 181. * Acad. I. 43. The same argument is put forward by Cicero himself against Cato in the 4th book of the de Knibus. H. P. 2 18 INTRODUCTION. the views of Zeno as merely immaterial changes in minor points of the genuine Academic doctrine, while Juvenal only repeats current opinion in speaking of the Stoic dogmas as "a Cynicis tunica distantia'". Even a slight acquaintance with the Stoic system is sufScient to refute these gross charges: indeed, its originality is abundantly vindicated when- we point to the influence it exercised for several centuries on the intellectual life of Greece and Rome". At the same time it must be admitted that Zeno was largely indebted to his predecessors — especially to Antisthenes and Heraclitus — for the bricks and mortar with which he constructed so splendid an edifice. Of Cynicism in particular he appropriated the kernel, while discarding the husk. It is, however, when we look at Stoicism as a whole that we are able to appreciate the skill with which its incongruous elements were fused, and the unity of thought which pervades a variety of detail. The Stoic wise man is as far removed from Diogenes in his tub, a,s is the all permeating aether from the fiery element of Heraclitus. We proceed to discuss in detail the various points in which Zeno's obligation to previous thinkers is most strongly marked. A. To Antisthenes and the Cynics. The resemblances between Zeno and the Cynics are natu- rally to be found chiefly in their ethical doctrines. Physics were almost entirely neglected by the Cynics, and their nomina- listic logic was not of great importance for Stoicism, although we may observe in passing that both schools maintained in similar terms' that Plato's ideas were a mere fiction of the brain and had no objective existence. The Stoic doctrine of life in accordance with nature finds its historical origin in the 1 XIII. 121. 2 "Die Stoa war vielinehr die weitaus selbstaudigste Sohule der nacharistotelischen Philosophie," Stein, PBychologie p. 10. ' Antisthenes ap. Simpl. in Cat. p. 54 b ij IINiiTuv, VTrTrov /j^v 6/jw 'nnr6Tr}Ta Si oix hpu. Cf. 2ieno frag. 23. INTRODUCTION. 19 teaching as well as in the life of Diogenes ^ Like Zeno, Antisthenes teaches that virtue is in itself sufficient to secure happiness'', that nothing is a Good but virtue, nothing an Evil but vice, and that everything else is indifi'erent*. Accordingly Diogenes held that death, since it involves no disgrace, cannot be an EviP. Hence it is not surprising to learn that many of the Cynics put an end to their lives by suicide, though we have sayings both of Antisthenes and Diogenes on record denying the legitimacy of such a course'. Virtue itself is described, after Socrates, as consisting in wisdom and pru- dence: "prudence," says Antisthenes, "is the safest wall; it cannot be undermined or betrayed"". At the same time the futility of the ordinary course of Greek education is strongly insisted on'. The distinction between virtue and vice draws with it that between the wise and the foolish; the philoso- pher's wallet preserves a chosen few from a condition border- ing on madness^ We are told, on the authority of Diogenes Laertius", that Zeno adopted the Cynic form of life. This is probably to be taken with some limitation, as the incidents recorded of his life only partially agree with it. It is certain, however, that his life was one of abstinence and simplicity'", and for this reason he became the butt of the comic poets, who thus un- consciously testified to his merit. Apollodorus EphUlus, a later Stoic writer, declared that the wise man would cynicise, and that Cynicism was a short cut to virtue". It should, however, always be borne in mind that the Stoic ideal was ^ Diog. L. VI. 71 Shv ovv dvTL Ttav dxp^Tuv irovtav Toijs Kara ipuffiv iXofUvovs i^v eiidatfiovcjs. Zeno frag. 120. * Diog. L. VI. 11. Zeno frag. 125. " Diog. L. VI. 105. Zeno frag. 128. ^ Arr. Epiet. Diss. i. 24. 6. Zeno frag. 129. 5 ZeUer Socrates, etc. Eng. Tr. p. 319, n. 5. Cf. Zeno frag. 161. « Diog. L. VI. 13. Zeno frag. 184. ' Diog. L. VI. 108. Zeno frag. 167. 8 Diog. L. VI. 83, 35. Zeno frag. 148. » Diog. L. VI. 104. " Diog. L. vn. 26, 27. " Diog. VI. 104. VII. 121. 2—2 20 INTRODUCTION. humanised and elevated to an extent entirely incompatible with Cynicism, mainly owing to the attention which was bestowed on mental cultured Turning to the views of the two schools in applied moral science, we find a curious agreement as to the relations of the sexes : Zeno and Diogenes both held that, in the ideal state, there should be a community of wives, and neither saw any- thing revolting in marriage between the nearest relations'. At the same time marriage and the begetting of children are recommended for the wise man both by Zeno and Antisthenes, and apparently we must regard this as intended to apply to the existing condition of life, in which marriage was a civil institution'. Both teachers allow to the wise man the passion of love, as he alone will be able to select a suitable object* : both maintain that the virtuous alone are capable of genuine friendship' Lastly, Zeno copied Antisthenes in his treatment of the Homeric poems, and particularly in explaining certain ap- parent contradictions as due to the fact that the poet speaks at one time Kara 86^av and at another kot' dXrjdtuiv'. The al- legorising method of interpretation is commoia to both, and was afterwards developed to an excessive degree by Cleanthes and Ohrysippus'. Though we have thus seen that Zeno's ethical teaching is largely founded on Cynicism, we must not forget the many points of divergence. Thus, for example, we find the Cynics treating honour and wealth as absolute evils"; these things, ' The difference of spirit in the two schoola is well put by Sir A. Grant (Ar. Eth. vol. i. p. 317 ed. 3). 2 Diog. L. VI. 72. Dio. Chrys. x. 29. Cf. Zeno frags. 176 and 179. These passages are from the iroXire/a of Zeno, which is supposed to have been written while he was still an exponent of orthodox Cynicism. Chry- sippus, however, is reported to have also held this repulsive doctrine. 3 Diog. L. VI. 11. Zeno frag. 171. ■• Diog. L. VI. 11. Zeno frag. 172. » Diog. L. VI. 12. Zeno frag. 149. « Dio. Chrys. 53, 4. Zeno frag. 195. ' See Oic. N. D. ii. 63 foil. 8 See the passages collected by Zeller Socrates, etc. E. T. p, 304. INTRODUCTION. 21 according to Zeno, belonged to the class of irporjyfjJva. Again, to take their attitude towards the popular religion, we know that Zeno expressly countenanced divination, while the ex- istence of prophets made Diogenes think man the most foolish of animals'. B. To Heraclitus. There can be no doubt that Zeno borrowed some important principles in his physical teaching from the writings of He- raclitus, and particularly from his account of the cosmogony. There is, however, a difficulty in comparing the doctrines of the two schools minutely, owing to the obscurity in which our knowledge of the Heraclitean theories is involved, and which is often increased by the doubt as to whether some particular doctrine belonged equally to the Stoics and the philosopher of Ephesus, or whether some later development, introduced by the former, has not been wrongly ascribed to the latter by our authorities. For instance, it was at one time stoutly main- tained that the conflagration of the world was not taught by Heraclitus but that it was first propounded by Zeno, although the contrary opinion seems now to prevail^. Again, it is not entirely clear whether we are to class Heraclitus, as Aristotle does', with the early Ionian physicists, starting from his dogma that all things are fire, or whether we are to regard this principle as a metaphysical abstraction, metaphorically shadowing forth the eternal flux of all things, a view which is more in accordance with Plato's criticism in the Theaetetus*. However this may be, Heraclitus is essentially a hylozoist, who, following Anaximenes, chooses fire as being the rarest element, and insists on the continuity of change in order to escape from the mechanical theories of Anaxagoras and Em- ' Diog. VI. 24 and contrast Zeno frag. 118. ^ See the elaborate discussion in Zeller, Pre-Socr. Phil. Eug. Tr. ii. pp. 62 — 77. See however Bywater, Journ. Phil. i. 42. 3 Met. I. 3. 8. This is the view of Ueberweg p. 40 and is also held by Dr Jackson^ * Zeller's position (p. 20 foil.) combines the two views. 22 INTRODUCTION. pedocles o"n the one hand, and the Parmenidean immobility on the other. The Xo'yos ^wos is with him the expression of the truth that nothing can be known but the law of mutability, the harmony in difference, which he likens to the stretching of a bowstring'. This law he calls yvtafirj, SUri, elfiapfievrj, to irepie^oi' ■q/jMi XoyiKov re ov Koi v els viuv KaTaKofffiTja-iv Kal KaXCiv : of. Plut. ad prin. iner. 780 d Uo\inm> (\eye rbv (pwra elxai 6eCiv iirripealav els viuv iri/iiXeiav (Kreuttner, Andronioua p. 49). 1 Stoics etc. p. 399. ^ See Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, Antigonos p. 107 : Zeller and Waohs- muth adopt Nietzsche's hypothesis (Bbein. Mas. xxiv. 18S) that all tbe lists in Diog. are, with certain exceptions, derived from Demetrius of INTEODUCTION. 27 for not only does Diogenes in several places cite him by name (e.g. § 2) but also Strabo (xvi. 2. 24, p. 757) expressly mentions a work of his with the title Trtvaf tvcnv fiiov (Diog. 4). (14) irepl opp.rj'i rj irepl dv6pvcretoi (Diog. 4). Diogenes quotes the Zenonian definition of the summum bonum from this book (vii. 87) j Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. in. 580) proposed to separate this title reading rj' = octo, and Weygoldt adopting this further identified irepl dvdpumov va-ew's with irepl ^a-em, but the latter is not an anthropological work. (15) irepl ira6&v (Diog. 4) containing the general defini- tion of emotion and the discussion of its several subdivisions, pain, fear, desire and pleasure (ib. 110). (16) iro\vreia. This seems to have been the most generally known, as it is certainly the most often quoted, of Zeno's -ssfritings; it was also one of the earliest in point of 1 I. p. 458. So also Stein, Brkenntnistheorie n. 689« 30 INTRODUCTION. time, having been written while its author was still under the influence of Cynicism (Diog. 4). Plutarch informs us that it was written as a controversial answer to Plato's Republic. The allusions to it are too numerous to be specified here in detail'. (17) irepl vo/nov (Diog. 4). From its position in the catalogue this work must have belonged to the political side of ethics, and Krische's supposition (p. 368) that it treated of the divine law of nature is therefore rebutted. Themist. Or. XXIII. p. 287 A speaks of the vo/aoi of Zeno but appears to be referring generally to his philosophical precepts. (18) TTC/n T^s "EWtjvik^s iraiSttos (Diog. 4) : cf. frag. 167, which however is stated to belong to the TroXiTcto. (19) iponiKT^ Texvv (Diog. 34). To this book pro- bably belongs the interesting fragment (174) preserved by Clem. Alex, relating to the behaviour suitable to young men. (20) 8taTpi/3at (Diog. 34): a similar work, as we are told by Diog. whose statement is confirmed by the passages (frags. 179, 180) quoted from it by Sextus. As we are told by Plutarch that something of the same kind was contained in the iroXiTtia, we may believe that this and the last three works were written in close connection with it, as shorter appendages dealing with special topics, and before Zeno had worked out the distinctive features of Stoicism. From the general meaning of "lectures, discussions" (for which cf. Plat. Apol. 37 D rai €/ias SiarpijSas xal toiis Xoyovi) Siarpifi-q seems to have assumed the special sense of a short ethical treatise, if we may trust the definition of Hermogenes (Rhett. Gr. ed. Waltz, t. iii. p. 406) htaTpip-q iYar. INTRODUCTION. 31 believes that the SiaTpt/Sal was excluded from the iriva| as being an earlier Cynic work. (21) T^OiKo. (Diog. 4). The title is somewhat doubtful, as Wachsmuth reads diroixvyj/jLOvevfjiaTa KpaTijros rjOiKo. as a single title, and Wellmann would emend rj xp"at for rjOiKo.: more probably however it was a collection of short ethical TTpoySXij/xaTtt. IV. Miscellaneous. (22) irpopXrjfuxTiov 'OfL-qpiKuiv e (Diog. 4) : we learn from Dio. Chrys. 53, 4 that Zeno wrote on the Iliad, Odyssey and Margites, and that his object was to show the general consistency of Homer by explaining that a literal meaning was not to be applied throughout the poems, which ought in many instances to be interpreted allegorically. That he in some cases proposed emendations may be seen from Strabo vii. 3. 6, cf. ib. i. p. 41, xvi. p. 1131. Krische p. 392 shows that there is no foundation for the suggestion that Zeno attributed the Iliad and the Odyssey to different authors. (23) Trepl iroirjTLKTJ's aKpodatui's (Diog. 4). Stein, Er- kenntnistheorie n. 689, speaks of this work, the irpoySX. 'O/iiyp. and the irepl 'EA.A.tji'. iratS. as an educational series, and regards them as an appendix to the TroXireia. (24) diro/tvrj/Aoveu/xaTa KparjjTos (Diog. 4) also mentioned by Athen. iv. 162 b as Ztjviovoi aTop,vryp,ovcup.aTa, from which Persaeus is said to have made extracts. There seems little doubt that this was identical with the xp«tai mentioned in Diog. VI. 91 in connection with Crates, or that Wachsmuth is right in referring to this book the story of Crates and the cobbler (frag. 199). Aphthonius' definition of xp^iai runs thus: — diro- uvrmovtvijui avvrofi-ov €is eirt Tt irpoauiirov avatji^poixivov. (25) iina-ToXai. (Maxim. Floril. ed. Mai, c. 6). This reference was first pointed out by "Wachsmuth, see frag. 190. The passage in Cic. N. D. i. 36 (cum vero Hesiodi Theo- goniam interpretatur) led Fabricius to insert among his list of Zeno's writings (in. p. 580) vTrop.vr]fwv€Vfj.a eis njv 'Ho-to'Sotj 32 INTKODUCTION. 6toyov[av\ and there can be no doubt from the statements in Proclus and the other Scholiasts^ that Zeno's labours extended to Hesiod as well as to Homer. It is, however, impossible to say in what work these fragments appeared, and we do not feel much inclined to accept Krische's view (p. 367) that the allegorical explanations of Hesiod were worked into the TrepX oXov^. May they not belong to the irepl rroiijrtic^s a/cpoatreois? It remains to call attention to Clem. Alex. Strom, v. 9. 58 p. 245, S. p. 681, P. dXKa. koX ot %TtatKo\ \f.yorv(ji li-qviavL tw irpiina yeypd6ai, Tiva a fiii] paStus iirnpeirovin tois p.aOrjTa.l'! dvayi- yvtiiTKUv ixrj oii^i iriipav SeScokocti irporepos €t yj^CTWos <^t\ocro<^ot£i', but similar suggestions of esotericism are made against all the post- Aristotelian schools, and especially against the New Academy. (Mayor on Cic. N. D. I. 11.) § 5. Zeno's style. The fragments which survive of Zeno's writings are not sufficient to enable us to form any satisfactory opinion of his style, and it would be unsafe to generalise from such scanty data. We shall therefore only attempt ' to point out those characteristics about which there can be no doubt. The later Greek philosophers troubled themselves but little with the graces of literary ornament. Philosophy had now become scientific in its treatment and ceased to be artistic in form. Zeno was no exception to this rule, and was satisfied if he presented his arguments to his readers with directness and perspicacity. In this respect, he has been successful in avoid- ing obscurity'', though he lays himself open to the charge of ' See Flacb, Glosseu und Scholien zur Eesiodischen Theogonie, p. 29 foil. ^ Cf. also Diog. L. viii. 48, Minuc. Felix Ootav. xix. 10 Chrysippus Menonem interpretatione physiologiae in Hesiodi Homeri Orpheique carminibus imitatur. ' Zeller who formerly supported this view (Stoics p. 40) now thinks otherwise (Ph. d. Gr. in." 1. 32). * Fronto ad Verum Imperat. i. p. 114 ad doeendum planissimus Zenon. Cf. Diog. L. vn. 38 icn fiii> o$v airoO /coi t4 -irpocryeypa/iiiiva jSi/SXia INTRODUCTION. 33 abruptness and want of finish. To this tendency was due his custom of couching his arguments in syllogistic formulae, which often served to cloak a somewhat obvious fallacy '. This formally logical style subsequently grew so habitual with the Stoics that they earned for themselves the title of Sta\«- TiKoi. Cicero (N. D. in. 22) especially observes on Zeno's fondness for certain "breues et acutulas conclusiones," and several examples of these are to be found in his remaining fragments. "That which is reasonable is better than that which is unreasonable: but nothing is better than the world: therefore the world is reasonable." "That thing at whose departure the living organism dies is corporeal : but the living organism dies when the breath that has been united with it departs : therefore this breath is corporeal : but this breath is the soul; therefore the soul is corporeal." "That is altogether destructible all whose parts are destructible : but all the parts of the world are destructible; therefore the world is itself destructible," cf. also frags. 59, 60, 61, 129, 130. Passing to quite a different characteristic, we remark in Zeno's style a certain picturesqueness and love of simile, which perhaps may be regarded as traceable to the Oriental influence of his birth-place"- Particularly striking is his observation that those who are in a state of ttjookotttj may from their dreams discover whether they are making progress, if then the imaginative and emotional part of the soul is clearly seen dispersed and ordered by the power of reason, as in the transparent depth of a waveless calm (frag. 160). Zeno, says Cicero (N. D. ii. 22), "similitudine, ut saepe solet, rationem concludit hoc modo." "If tuneful flutes were pro- duced from an olive should not we regard some knowledge of TToWd, iv oXs i\6,\ri(Tev lis oiSds tQv Stuiikuv in which passage Stein, Psyohologie n. 2, finds evidence of " die Klarheit und Gediegeuheit der Schriften Zenos." ^ In Cic. N. D. II. 20 the Stoic claims that such arguments "apertiora sunt ad reprehendendum." Elsewhere Cicero calls them " contortulis quibusdam et minutis oonclusiunoulis neo ad sensum permanentibus." Tnsc. II. 42. 2 Cf. Wellmann 1. c. p. 443. H. P. 3 34 INTRODUCTION. flute-playing as inherent in the olive?" (frag. 63). In like manner he uses the simile of the minister in a royal court to explain his doctrine of the ■n-poijyfu.evov (frag. 131), and likens his ideal commonwealth to a herd grazing on a common pasture (frag. 162). Not only in elaborate comparisons but also in single ex- pressions may the same picturesque touch be seen. Thus character is said to be the fountain of life (frag. 146), emotion a fluttering of the soul (frag. 137), and happiness the unruffled flow of life (frag. 124). It will be remembered that Cicero, or his authority, con- stantly taunts Zeno with being the inventor of new words, and new words only'- When scrutinised, this appears to mean not so much that he was a coiner of new expressions, as that for the purposes of his system he appropriated words already in existence as part of his special terminology. Putting aside Ttpor/yiJicvov and diroirparfyiiivov, which stand on rather a diflferent footing, we may instance vrpoKOTrq, ivdpyeia, a-vyKarii- Seo-is, KaTopOiafia, Karakfjij/K, Ka6^Kov, evvoiaiT), and njTrcDtrts : TrpoA.Tji/'is is certainly not due to Zeno. Yet, although none of these words are new coinages, KaTaXrjij/K and KaOrJKov are instances specially selected by Cicero in support of his statement. Diog. Laert. x. 27 speaking of Chrysippus observes: — koX Ta liaprvpuL roaavra iarrCv, ojs iKcCviav fiovmv yi/jxiv to. ySijSXto, KaOaiTtp KoX irapa Zrjvoivi io'Tiv evpetv Koi irapd 'ApioTOTcXet. The existing fragments however do not justify this assertion. Finally, although doubtless the circumstances under which the fragments have been preserved render this tendency more noticeable than it otherwise would be, we shall not be wrong in attributing to Zeno a love of precise definition. The school afterwards became famous for their definitions (cf. Sext. Pyrrh. ii. 205 — 212), and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the habit originated with the founder. Instances of this 1 Cic. Fin. in. 5. 15. Tusc. v. 32. 34. Legg. i. 38, etc. Cf. Galen de diff. puis. VIII. 642 ed Ktthn Ziji/wc Si i Kmeis fn irpdrepov MX/iTiirs KaiPOTO/ieiv re xal iTrepPalvav rb rSv '£}\Xifi>(in> (Sos iv rots dpd/uuriv. INTRODUCTION. 35 will occur passim. In fact, his writings in their general character were dogmatic and terse rather than discursive and polemical. The longest extract in the following pages is of dubious authenticity, and therefore for a specimen of the style of our author we would refer to the description of youthful modesty in frag. 174. § 6. Gleanihes. In discussing the dates of Zeno's life we have seen that there is good reason to believe that Cleanthes was born in the year B.C. 331, and if so he was only five years younger than Zeno. We also saw that he lived to the age of 99 and presided over the Stoa for 32 years from B.C. 264 till his death in B.C. 232. Against this computation there is to be taken into account the fact that Diogenes (vii. 176) states that he lived to the age of 80 and was a pupil of Zeno for nineteen years. Unless we are prepared to reject the authority of the papyrus altogether, we have in Diogenes' account either a difierent tradition or a stupid blunder'- In any case, Cleanthes was well advanced in life when he became head of the Stoic School. He was bom at Assos, a town in the Tread, but at what age he came to Athens or under what circumstances he be- came a pupil of Zeno we have no information. His circum- stances were those of extreme poverty : he is said to have been a boxer before he embraced philosophy, and the story is well known how he earned his living by drawing water at night, in order to devote his daytime to study". Hence the nickname of 4>pedvTA.ijs was given to him by his opponents, while his friends in admiration of his laborious activity called him a "second Heracles." The man's mind is shadowed forth in these anecdotes : the same earnestness and thoroughness which 1 Eohde 1. c. p. 622 n. 1 suggests that Diogenes subtracted the 19 years passed under Zeno's tuition from the years of his life, but this is hardly credible. 2 Dio«. L. VII. 168. 3—2 36 INTRODUCTION. characterised his life are no less apparent in his teaching. Whatever he did was marked by energy and completeness and was grounded on deeply-rooted conviction. Philosophy with him was not merely an intellectual exercise, but far more a religious enthusiasm. This religious fervour led him to regard the theological side of philosophy as of the highest importance, and, feeling that the praise of the divine majesty should be set forth in something higher than sober prose, his genius expressed itself in poetical compositions of the greatest merit. It is easy to believe that a man of this character may have proved an unsuccessful teacher, and there is some evi- dence that under his presidency the Stoic school was in danger of losing ground, cf. Diog. L. vii. 182 ovto's (Chrysippus) ovet8i(r0£ts VTTo tivos oti ovp^i irapd 'ApCoTuvi (lerd ttoXXmv o^oXa^ot, tl Tois iroAAois, £«r«, TrpoCTcixov, ovk av £^i\oavTacria as eTepotucris ifytjioviKOv, it is less likely that he should have propounded a theory which in its very terms carries out the more materialistic doctrine of his opponent. INTRODUCTION. 39 We have therefore, in accordance with Stein's view, included the passage of Plutarch, which attributes the doctrine to the Stoics in general, among the fragments of Cleanthes. Stein, however, goes further'. Zeno had conceded this much to rationalism, that we derive directly from God the capacity for abstract thought, and that certain notions are the pro- duct of this potentiality when actualised by experience. In an ingenious and closely-reasoned argument, whose force it is diflOicult to reproduce within short limits, Stein contends that this position was thrown over by Cleanthes. According to the latter, the capacity given us by nature is solely that for moral and not for intellectual activity". The belief in God himself does not, as with Zeno, arise from a "certa animi ratio " but rather from induction founded on empirical observation ^ The conclusion is that Cleanthes is a thorough- going advocate of empiricism. But a divergence from the rest of the school in a matter of such importance ought not to be assumed on mere inference resting on ambiguous state- ments, although were this doctrine explicitly ascribed to Cle- anthes in a single passage we should not hesitate to accept it, as being in entire consonance with his general bent of mind. What then is the evidence which Stein produces apart from the passage of Cicero just referred to, which is by no means conclusive ? In the first place he appeals to two passages which prove that moral impulses are transmitted to us from our parents and implanted in us by nature^, and lays stress on the fact that intellectual powers are not in- cluded. This, however, is only negative evidence, and for positive proof we are referred to frags. 106 and 100 ; in the first of these we read that the uneducated difier from the brutes only in shape, and in the second that the undiscerning opinion of the many should be totally discarded. Surely these grounds are insufficient to support the conclusion : 1 Erkenntnistheorie, pp. 322—328. 2 Cleanth. frags. 82 and 36. 3 Cleanth. frag. 52. (Cic. N. D. ii. 13.) 40 INTRODUCTION. Plato himself might have greeted these sentiments with ap- probation. But a more serious stumbling-blook remains in the oft quoted passage from Diog. L. vii. 54. If, as Stein himself admits, Chrysippus substituted 7rpo'\r;i/'w for the Zenonian opdoi Xoyos, Cleanthes must of necessity be included in the term dp^auoTtpoi tJJi' SruiKuii/, for there is no one else to whom the words could apply'. Were further positive evidence of Cleanthes' " concession to rationalism " required, it would surely be as reasonable to supply it from frag. 21 i{/v)(rjv. . .^s /xepos /JitTixpvTai ij/xas iiuj/v\ov