Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
On Duties 3.8 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
Translation by Walter Miller (1913)
Cicero (on the Stoics), On Duties 3.8
And I wonder the more at this, because Posidonius, a pupil of his, records that Panaetius was still alive thirty years after he published those three books. And I am surprised that Posidonius has but briefly touched upon this subject in certain memoirs of his, and especially, as he states that there is no other topic in the whole range of philosophy so essentially important as this.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), On Duties 3.8, tr. Walter Miller (1913)
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AI-written notesA scholarly aside about how long Panaetius lived after publishing his work and how briefly Posidonius dealt with the missing third topic, even though he rated it as the most important in philosophy.
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