Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, R. D. Hicks (Translator), 3.1.28

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[28] And in the Dexidemides¹:

O Plato, all you know is how to frown with eyebrows lifted high like any snail.

Cratinus,² too, in The False Changeling:

A.

Clearly you are a man and have a soul.

B.

In Plato’s words, I am not sure but suspect that I have.

And Alexis in the Olympiodorus³:

A.

My mortal body withered up, my immortal part sped into the air.

B.

Is not this a lecture of Plato’s?

And in the Parasite⁴:

Or, with Plato, to converse alone.

Anaxilas,⁵ again, in the Botrylion, and in Circe and Rich Women, has a gibe at him.

Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.

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[28] ἐν Δεξιδημίδῃ·

ὦ Πλάτων,

ὡς οὐδὲν οἶσθα¹ πλὴν σκυθρωπάζειν μόνον,

ὥσπερ κοχλίας σεμνῶς ἐπηρκὼς τὰς ὀφρῦς.

Κρατῖνος Ψευδυποβολιμαίῳ·

ἄνθρωπος εἶ δηλονότι καὶ ψυχὴν ἔχεις.

—κατὰ τὸν Πλάτωνʼ οὐκ οἶδα 〈δʼ〉, ὑπονοῶ δʼ ἔχειν.

Ἄλεξις Ὀλυμπιοδώρῳ·

σῶμα μὲν ὁμοῦ τὸ θνητὸν αὖον ἐγένετο,

τὸ δʼ ἀθάνατον ἐξῇξε² πρὸς τὸν ἀέρα.

—ταῦτʼ οὐ σχολὴ Πλάτωνος;

καὶ ἐν Παρασίτῳ·

ἢ μετὰ Πλάτωνος ἀδολεσχεῖν κατὰ μόνας.

χλευάζει δʼ αὐτὸν καὶ Ἀναξίλας Βοτρυλίωνι καὶ Κίρκῃ καὶ Πλουσίαις.

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1. Meineke, C.G.F. iii. 305.

2. Sc. Cratinus Junior, of the Middle Comedy; Meineke, C.G.F. iii. 378.

3. Meineke, C.G.F. iii. 455.

4. Ib. iii. 468

5. Of the Middle Comedy; Meineke, iii. 342-352.

Diogenes Laertius Vitae philosophorum 3.1.28

R. D. Hicks (Translator)

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