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Crates passed by in the nick of time, so the bookseller pointed to him and said, Follow yonder man. From that day he became Crates’s pupil, showing in other respects a strong bent for philosophy, though with too much native modesty to assimilate Cynic shamelessness. Hence Crates, desirous of curing this defect in him, gave him a potful of lentil-soup to carry through the Ceramicus; and when he saw that he was ashamed and tried to keep it out of sight, with a blow of his staff he broke the pot. As Zeno took to flight with the lentil-soup flowing down his legs, Why run away, my little Phoenician? quoth Crates, nothing terrible has befallen you.
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For a certain space, then, he was instructed by Crates, and when at this time he had written his Republic, some said in jest that he had written it on Cynosura, i.e. on the dog’s tail.Cynosura, Dog’s Tail, like Dog’s Head, Cynoscephalus, was the name of several promontories, notably one in Athens and one in Salamis. Relatively to Cynicism, holding on by the dog’s tail would seem a more appropriate interpretation. Besides the Republic he wrote the following works: Of Life according to Nature. Of Impulse, or Human Nature. Of Emotions. Of Duty. Of Law. Of Greek Education. Of Vision. Of the Whole World. Of Signs. Pythagorean Questions. Universals. Of Varieties of Style. Homeric Problems, in five books. Of the Reading of Poetry.
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There are also by him: A Handbook of Rhetoric. Solutions. Two books of Refutations. Recollections of Crates. Ethics.
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This is a list of his writings. But at last he left Crates, and the men above mentioned were his masters for twenty years. Hence he is reported to have said, I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck. But others attribute this saying of his to the time when he was under Crates.
