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Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1

Note 67 — Chapter VIII · PLATONIC COMPOSITIONS GENERALLY.

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This general fact is powerfully set forth by Cicero, in the beginning of the third Tusculan Disputation. Chrysippus the Stoic, “ut est in omni historiâ curiosus,” had collected striking examples of these consecrated practices, cherished in one territory, abhorrent elsewhere. (Cic. Tusc. Disp. i. 45, 108.)

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