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But never, while you live; again dream of being a philosopher. SPEUSIPPUS. Nay, I was only ALCIBIADES. A pupil of Gorgias and Melesigenes afraid of Tartarus! In what region of the infernal world do you expect your domicile to be fixed? Shall you roll a stone like Sisyphus? Hard exercise, Speusippus! SPEUSIPPUS. In the name of all the gods
CALLIDEMUS. You have more reason to fear Aristophanes than any fool living. You would console him for the loss of Cleon. SPEUSIPPUS. No, no. I may perhaps figure at the dramatic representations before long; but in a very different way. CALLIDEMUS. What do you mean? SPEUSIPPUS. What say you to a tragedy? CALLIDEMUS. A tragedy of yours? SPEUSIPPUS. Even so. CALLIDEMUS. Oh Hercules! Oh Bacchus!
You have succeeded, I grant, to his impudence, for which, if there be justice in Tartarus, he is now soaking up to the eyes in his own tanpickle. But the Paphlagonian had parts. SPEUSIPPUS. And you mean to imply CALLIDEMUS. Not I. You are a Pericles in embryo, doubtless. Well: and when are you to make your first speech? O Pallas!
And Diogenes meeting the philosopher Speusippus, so blown up with an inveterate dropsy that he was fain to be carried in a litter, and by him saluted with the compliment, "I wish you good health." "No health to thee," replied the other, "who art content to live in such a condition." And in fact, not long after, Speusippus, weary of so languishing a state of life, found a means to die.
SPEUSIPPUS. In the name of Bacchus ALCIBIADES. I am absolute. Sing. SPEUSIPPUS. Well, then, I will sing you a chorus, which, I think, is a tolerable imitation of Euripides. CHARICLEA. Of Euripides? Not a word. ALCIBIADES. Why so, sweet Chariclea? CHARICLEA. Would you have me betray my sex? Would you have me forget his Phaedras and Sthenoboeas?
All trumped up by Aristophanes! CALLIDEMUS. By Pallas, if he is in the habit of putting shoes on his fleas, he is kinder to them than to himself. But listen to me, boy; if you go on in this way, you will be ruined. There is an argument for you. Go to your Socrates and your Melesigenes, and tell them to refute that. Ruined! Do you hear? SPEUSIPPUS. Ruined! CALLIDEMUS. Ay, by Jupiter!
Here spake Speusippus, here Xenocrates, here his disciple Polemo to Polemo indeed belonged this seat which we have before us." This was the Polemo who had been converted, as we should say, when, bursting in after a night of revel upon a lecture in which Xenocrates was discoursing of temperance, he listened to such purpose that from that moment he became a changed man.
But I have some notion of what a play should be; I have seen Phrynichus, and lived with Aeschylus. I saw the representation of the Persians. SPEUSIPPUS. A wretched play; it may amuse the fools who row the triremes; but it is utterly unworthy to be read by any man of taste. CALLIDEMUS. If you had seen it acted; the whole theatre frantic with joy, stamping, shouting, laughing, crying.
It must therefore be said to such as are startled at these things, that it is their ignorance to think that time is the measure of motion in respect of sooner or later, as Aristotle calls it; or quantity in motion, as Speusippus; or an interval of motion and nothing else, as some of the Stoics define it, by an accident, not comprehending its essence and power, which Pindar has not ineptly expressed in these words: Time, who surpasses all in the seats of the blest.
We have scarce any particulars respecting the growth of the School of Athens from this time to the death of Plato, in 347 B.C. We only know generally that his fame as a lecturer became eminent and widely diffused; that among his numerous pupils were included Speusippus, Xenocrates, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Hyperides, Lycurgus, etc.; that he was admired and consulted by Perdiccas in Macedonia, and Dionysius at Syracuse; that he was also visited by listeners and pupils from all parts of Greece.
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