Note 26 — Chapter III · HISTORY OF THE STOICS UNTIL THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY B.C.

According to the sketch of his life in Buhle (Arat. Opp. i. 3), Aratus was a pupil of Persæus at Athens, in company with whom he repaired to Antigonus in Macedonia, which can only mean that he was, together with Persæus, a pupil of Zeno. Another writer in Buhle (ii. 445) calls him so, mentioning one of his letters addressed to Zeno. Other accounts (Ibid. ii. 431; 442; 446) describe him as a pupil of Dionysius of Heraclea, or of Timon and Menedemus. A memorial of his Stoicism is the introduction to his ‘Phænomena,’ a poem resembling the hymn of Cleanthes. Asclepiades (Vita in Buhle, ii. 429), in calling him a native of Tarsus, is only preferring a better-known Cilician town to one less known. ↑