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Although at Athens he became a disciple of ZenoZeno, of Citium, a city in the island of Cyprus, founded by Phoenician settlers, was the son of Mnaseas. of Citium, he makes no mention of his followers; while those who opposed that philosopher, and of whose sect not a trace remains, he thinks fit to set down amongst the [great characters] who flourished in his time. His real character appears in his Treatise on Moral Philosophy,πεοͅὶ τῶν?̓αγαθῶν, is the title given by Strabo, but we find from Harpocrates and Clemens Alexandrinus, that properly it was πεοͅὶ?̓αγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν, or “Concerning Good and Evil Things ‘ which we have rendered in the text Moral Philosophy. his Meditations, and some similar productions. He seems to have held a middle course between the man who devotes himself to philosophy, and the man who cannot make up his mind to dedicate himself to it: and to have studied the science merely as a relief from his other pursuits, or as a pleasing and instructive recreation. In his other writings he is just the same; but let these things pass. We will now proceed as well as we can to the task of rectifying his geography.
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First, then, let us return to the point which we lately deferred.