DIODORUS CRONUS (4th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C.)  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek philosopher of the Megarian school . Practically nothing is known of his See also:

• LIFE

life . See also:

• DIOGENES

Diogenes Laertius (ii . III) tells a See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story that, while staying at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy See also:

• SOTER

Soter, Diodorus was asked to solve a dialectical subtlety by See also:

• STILPO [STILPON]

Stilpo . Not being able to See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer on the See also:

• SPUR (A.S. spura, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. M.H.G. sporn, mod. Ger. Sporn)

spur of the moment, he was nicknamed o Kpovos (the See also:

• GOD

God, See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to " slowcoach ") by Ptolemy . The story goes that he died of shame at his failure . See also:

• STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo, however, says ()dv . 658; xvii . 838) that he took the name from See also:

• APOLLONIUS

Apollonius, his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master . Like the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the Megarian school he revelled in verbal quibbles, proving that See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion and existence are impossible . His was the famous sophism known as the Kvptebtay . The impossible cannot result from the possible; a past event cannot become other than it is; but if an event, at a given moment, had been possible, from this possible would result something impossible; therefore the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original event was impossible .

This problem was taken up by See also:

• CHRYSIPPUS (c. 280-2o6 B.c.)

Chrysippus, who admitted that he could not solve it . Apart from these verbal gymnastics, Diodorus did not differ from the Megarian school . From his See also:

• GREAT

great dialectical skill he earned the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title o &aXexrucbs, or &aXexrucwraTOS, a title which was See also:

• BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne by his five daughters, who inherited his ability . See See also:

• CICERO

Cicero, De Fato, 6, 7, 9; See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle, Metaphysica, 0 3; Sext . Empiric., adv . Math. x . 85; See also:

• RITTER, HEINRICH (1791-1869)
• RITTER, KARL (1779–1859)

Ritter and Netter, Hist. philos . Gr. et Rom. See also:

• CHAP

chap. v . §§ 234-236 (ed . 1869); and bibliography appended to See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article MEGARIAN SCHOOL .