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