Zeno's shipwreck
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
shipwreck · the shipwreck
in the texts
Letters
The disaster that prompted Zeno's saying about the threadbare cloak.
For I think she would even bring a suit of ejectment against you, if she had any power of speech, on the ground that I had chosen to live with her—I who now praise Zeno, who, when he had lost everything in a shipwreck, uttered nothing ignoble, but said, "Well done, fortune, you are driving us into the threadbare cloak";
Vitae philosophorum
The wreck of Zeno's cargo ship on its voyage from Phoenicia, which precipitated his move into philosophy at Athens.
He was shipwrecked on a voyage from Phoenicia to Peiraeus with a cargo of purple.
As Zeno took to flight with the lentil-soup flowing down his legs, Why run away, my little Phoenician?
Hence he is reported to have said, I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck.