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Updated: June 28, 2025
Besides this, to arm himself at all points for his proposed career, he read logic with Diodotus the Stoic, studied the action of Esop and Roscius then the stars of the Roman stage declaimed aloud like Demosthenes in private, made copious notes, practised translation in order to form a written style, and read hard day and night.
But, reasoned Diodotus, experience had shown that intending criminals were not deterred from wrongdoing by the increased severity of penal statutes. For a long time lawgivers had framed their codes in this belief, thinking to drive mankind into the path of rectitude by appealing to their terrors. Yet crime had not diminished, but rather increased.
Under Augustus and Tiberius especially from about B.C. 40 to A.D. 20 Sidon was the seat of a philosophical school, in which the works of Aristotle were studied and explained, perhaps to some extent criticised. Strabo attended this school for a time in conjunction with two other students, named Boethus and Diodotus.
It will have been observed that the names of the Tyrian, Sidonian, and Berytian learned men and authors of the time Antipater, Apollonius, Boethus, Diodotus, Philo, Hermippus, Marinus, Paulus, Maximus, Porphyrius are without exception either Latin or Greek.
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