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And in the DexidemidesMeineke, C.G.F. iii. 305.: O Plato, all you know is how to frown with eyebrows lifted high like any snail. Cratinus,Sc. Cratinus Junior, of the Middle Comedy; Meineke, C.G.F. iii. 378. 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 OlympiodorusMeineke, C.G.F. iii. 455.: 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 ParasiteIb. iii. 468: Or, with Plato, to converse alone. Anaxilas,Of the Middle Comedy; Meineke, iii. 342-352. again, in the Botrylion, and in Circe and Rich Women, has a gibe at him.
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Aristippus in his fourth book On the Luxury of the Ancients says that he was attached to a youth named Aster, who joined him in the study of astronomy, as also to Dion who has been mentioned above, and, as some aver, to Phaedrus too. His passionate affection is revealed in the following epigrams which he is said to have written upon themAnth. Pal. vii. 669, 670.:
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Star-gazing Aster, would I were the skies, To gaze upon thee with a thousand eyes. And another: Among the living once the Morning Star, Thou shin’st, now dead, like Hesper from afar.
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And he wrote thus upon DionAnth. Pal. vii. 99.: Tears from their birth the lot had been Of Ilium’s daughters and their queen. By thee, O Dion, great deeds done New hopes and larger promise won. Now here thou liest gloriously, How deeply loved, how mourned by me.
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This, they say, was actually inscribed upon his tomb at Syracuse.
