![]() Crates passed by in the nick of time, so the bookseller pointed to him and said, "Follow yonder man." From that day he became Crates's pupil, showing in other respects a strong bent for philosophy, though with too much native modesty to assimilate Cynic shamelessness. As he went on reading the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia, he was so pleased that he inquired where men like Socrates were to be found. He went up into Athens and sat down in a bookseller's shop, being then a man of thirty. He was shipwrecked on a voyage from Phoenicia to Peiraeus with a cargo of purple. Now the way he came across Crates was this. ![]() ![]() Whereupon, perceiving what this meant, he studied ancient authors. It is stated by Hecato and by Apollonius of Tyre in his first book on Zeno that he consulted the oracle to know what he should do to attain the best life, and that the god's response was that he should take on the complexion of the dead. Next they say he attended the lectures of Stilpo and Xenocrates for ten years – so Timocrates says in his Dion – and Polemo as well. He was a pupil of Crates, as stated above. They say he was fond of eating green figs and of basking in the sun.Ģ. Hence Persaeus in his Convivial Reminiscences relates that he declined most invitations to dinner. He had thick legs he was flabby and delicate. ![]() Moreover, Apollonius of Tyre says he was lean, fairly tall, and swarthy – hence some one called him an Egyptian vine-branch, according to Chrysippus in the first book of his Proverbs. He had a wry neck, says Timotheus of Athens in his book On Lives. Zeno, the son of Mnaseas (or Demeas), was a native of Citium in Cyprus, a Greek city which had received Phoenician settlers. ![]()
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