Asclepiades

that very many animals, when those parts of the body are taken away in which the principal is thought chiefly to consist, both live somewhat further and nonetheless retain their wits — as flies and wasps and locusts, if you cut off their heads, as goats and tortoises and eels, if you take out their hearts;

This both Hippocrates had, and Asclepiades, and Erasistratus, and Herophilus too, dissector even of grown men, and the gentler Soranus himself — all certain that a living creature is conceived, and so, taking pity on so most unhappy an infancy of this kind, that it should be killed first, lest it be torn alive.

But although we have established beforehand that all the natural things of the soul are inherent in its very substance, pertaining to sense and intellect, and out of the inborn census of the soul, yet they come forth gradually through the spaces of age, and variously emerge through accidents, according to arts, to institutions, to places, to presiding powers — yet, to make for the now-proposed fel …

They say that Asclepiades, no ignoble Eretrian philosopher, when someone asked what his blindness had brought him, answered:

And so one school is that of Hippocrates, another of Asclepiades, another of Themison.

Do they not remember that Asclepiades the Cynic, with a single little cow, on whose back too he was carried and from whose udder, whenever, he was fed, subdued the whole world with his eyes?