STILPO [STILPON]

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STILPO [STILPON] ,

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

philosopher of the Megarian school (q.v.), was a contemporary of Theophrastus and

Crates

CRATES

. Intellectually in agreement with the Megarian dialectic, he followed the

practical

PRACTICAL

ethics of the

Cynics

CYNICS

both in theory and in practice. He extolled the Cynic a,raBei.a (loosely, self-

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

) as the

principal

PRINCIPAL

virtue. Cicero (De fato, 5) describes him as a man of the highest

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

. Suidas attributes twenty dialogues to him, but of these no fragments remain. Among his followers were

Menedemus

MENEDEMUS

and Asclepiades, the leaders of the Eretrian school of philosophy.

Seneca

SENECA

(Epistle 9) shows how closely allied Stilpo was to the Stoics (q.v.).

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