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See also:STILPO [STILPON] , See also:Greek philosopher of the Megarian school (q.v.), was a contemporary of See also:Theophrastus and See also:Crates . Intellectually in agreement with the Megarian See also:dialectic, he followed the See also:practical See also:ethics of the See also:Cynics both in theory and in practice . He extolled the Cynic a,raBei.a (loosely, self-See also:control) as the See also:principal virtue . See also:Cicero (De fato, 5) describes him as a See also:man of the highest See also:character . Suidas attributes twenty dialogues to him, but of these no fragments remain . Among his followers were See also:Menedemus and See also:Asclepiades, the leaders of the Eretrian school of See also:philosophy . See also:Seneca (See also:Epistle 9) shows how closely allied See also:Stilpo was to the See also:Stoics (q.v.) . |
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