Antipater

To Antipater

For this reason, even so, I wish, setting all else aside, to come to your reverend self, both to enjoy the good things in you, and to set in good order, through your uprightness, the affairs of my own household.

Now above all I think I feel the loss which I endure through being ill, when, with such a man as you governing our country, I am compelled to be absent because of the care of my body. For a whole month now I have been waiting upon the treatment of the naturally hot waters, as though I were to gain some benefit from it. But it seems I am labouring in vain in the wilderness, or even appearing to be …

And yet you bring up that worn and oft-rejected argument, not as Antipater did, but, as you say, more pointedly;

What of the two leaders, as it were, of the dialecticians, Antipater and Archidemus, most thorny men — do they not dissent in many matters?

and they censured Antipater the Stoic, who had been much occupied in it.

And finally he called Antipater to the platform, and proceeded to ask him a certain question—he had previously told him what he gas going to ask, and had instructed him what he was to answer, to the injury of the state.

Meanwhile Alexander had withdrawn to the uttermost regions of the North, almost beyond the borders of the inhabited world, and Antipater was slow in collecting an army;

In which the most noble philosophers spent their lives — Xenocrates, Crantor, Arcesilaus, Lacydes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Zeno, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Antipater, Carneades, Clitomachus, Philo, Antiochus, Panaetius, Posidonius, and innumerable others, who, once having gone out, never returned home.

whose blindness, when little women lamented, \"What are you doing?

And Antipater, his pupil, supposes the end to lie in continually and inviolably choosing the things according to nature and rejecting the things contrary to nature.

And Antipater the Stoic, having written three books on the point that, according to Plato, the noble alone is good, shows that, according to him too, virtue is sufficient for happiness, and sets down many other doctrines in accord with the Stoics.

and he killed Cleitus the wise, and Philotas the handsome, and the aged Parmenion, and his teacher Callisthenes, and he had a mind to kill Aristotle, and plotted against Antipater.

And here I say that—even if some reader of this advice, of the very exact sort, should blame me—one must not be inexperienced even in the more recent men of a little before our time;

This Antipater assigns to poverty;

'Poverty is named not by possession, but by removal, or, as the ancients said, by deprivation.

Antipater too, among the great authorities of this school, says that he assigns something to externals, but a very little.

But Carneades, ignorant of no part of philosophy, and, as I learned from those who had heard him and especially from the Epicurean Zeno, who, though he dissented from him very greatly, yet admired him beyond all others, was of an incredible faculty and … " But why does Mnesarchus fret, why does Antipater fight it out with Carneades in so many volumes?

in some of which—as in the poet Antipater, as in those born on the day of the winter solstice, as in brothers who fall ill at the same time, as in the case of the urine, as of the fingernails, and the rest of that kind—the sympathy of nature prevails, which I do not abolish, yet there is no force of fate;

(Antipater was the lender’s name;

Apollonides of Halicarnassus deposes that to his knowledge Antipater, a Citian by birth, lent money to Hyblesius for a voyage to Pontus on the ship of which Hyblesius was in command, and on the freight to Pontus, and that he was himself part-owner of the ship with Hyblesius;

These men, taking along with them the dispatch from Antipater that came to Corinth addressed to Deinarchus, have filled all the cities in the Peloponnesus with such reports as I pray that the gods may turn back upon their own heads.

Antipater and Parmenio, though they were in the service of a hard taskmaster, and though they were not likely to fall in with you again, nevertheless claimed exemption from serving as the agents of your beguilement;

He thus prevented the inroad of Antipater into Greece, and overtaking him in that vicinity, defeated him in battle and shut him into Lamia, which he then besieged.

But I think that Diodotus himself will best induce you to take an interest in him.

Similarly, while he longed to obtain the honors it is yours to bestow, yet he did not expect to attain them;

For I reason that this will be to his advantage, chiefly conjecturing so on the strength of that kindliness which you have been supposed among foreigners to possess;

I have discussed with Antipater the course which is expedient for our city and for you, at sufficient length, I am convinced;

He says that a letter has come to him from Antipater—a third one, saying that he is to come to Macedonia;