Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, R. D. Hicks (Translator), 6.3.83

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[83] Ἐγένετο δʼ ἀνὴρ ἐλλόγιμος, ὡς καὶ Μένανδρον αὐτοῦ τὸν κωμικὸν μεμνῆσθαι. ἔν τινι γοῦν τῶν δραμάτων ἐν τῷ Ἱπποκόμῳ εἶπεν οὕτως·

Μόνιμός τις ἦν ἄνθρωπος, ὦ Φίλων, σοφός,

ἀδοξότερος μικρῷ δʼ.

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ὁ τὴν πήραν ἔχων;

Β.

πήρας μὲν οὖν τρεῖς· ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνος ῥῆμά τι

ἐφθέγξατʼ οὐδὲν ἐμφερές, μὰ τὸν Δία,

τῷ γνῶθι σαυτόν, οὐδὲ τοῖς βοωμένοις

τούτοις, ὑπὲρ δὲ ταῦθʼ ὁ προσαιτῶν καὶ ῥυπῶν·

τὸ γὰρ ὑποληφθὲν τῦφον εἶναι πᾶν ἔφη.

οὗτος μὲν ἐμβριθέστατος ἐγένετο, ὥστε δόξης μὲν καταφρονεῖν, πρὸς δʼ ἀλήθειαν παρορμᾶν.

Γέγραφε δὲ παίγνια σπουδῇ λεληθυίᾳ μεμιγμένα καὶ Περὶ ὁρμῶν δύο καὶ Προτρεπτικόν.

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

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Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων (Greek) (Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.)

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers Perseus (Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.) — 6.3.83 focus

[83] He came to be a distinguished man; so much so that he is even mentioned by the comic poet Menander. At any rate in one of his plays, The Groom, his words are:

One Monimus there was, a wise man, Philo,

But not so very famous.

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He, you mean,

Who carried the scrip?

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Nay, not one scrip, but three.

Yet never a word, so help me Zeus, spake he

To match the saying, Know thyself, nor such

Famed watchwords. Far beyond all these he went,

Your dusty mendicant, pronouncing wholly vain

All man’s supposings.

Monimus indeed showed himself a very grave moralist, so that he ever despised mere opinion and sought only truth.

He has left us, besides some trifles blended with covert earnestness, two books, On Impulses and an Exhortation to Philosophy.

Diogenes Laertius Vitae philosophorum 6.3.83

R. D. Hicks (Translator)

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