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He assumed the headship of the school in the fourth year of the 134th Olympiad,July 241-June 240 b.c. and at his death he had been head for twenty-six years. His end was a palsy brought on by drinking too freely. And here is a quip of my own upon the factAnth. Pal. vii. 105.: Of thee too, O Lacydes, I have heard a tale, that Bacchus seized thee and dragged thee on tip-toeOr with trailing toes. The vases show bodies carried in the arms or flung over the shoulders with the toes just touching the ground. to the underworld. Nay, was it not clear that when the wine-god comes in force into the frame, he loosens our limbs? Perhaps this is why he gets his name of the Loosener.
Chapter 9. CARNEADES (c. 213-129 B C.)
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Carneades, the son of Epicomus or (according to Alexander in his Successions of Philosophers) of Philocomus, was a native of Cyrene. He studied carefully the writings of the Stoics and particularly those of Chrysippus, and by combating these successfully he became so famous that he would often say: Without Chrysippus where should I have been? The man’s industry was unparalleled, although in physics he was not so strong as in ethics. Hence he would let his hair and nails grow long from intense devotion to study. Such was his predominance in philosophy that even the rhetoricians would dismiss their classes and repair to him to hear him lecture.
