Dio

do you mean anything else than that the philosopher differs from the rest by truth, and by examining each thing with reference to truth and not according to opinion?

) But are the things belonging to the philosopher and to philosophy obscure, while those of the merchants and farmers and musicians and astronomers and those I just named are manifest and plain?

For the saying spoken to the Athenians, when, being in extremities, they made some claim about Samos, might well, I think, be said to those who creep into the friendship of the base:

And so, for several days, with Heraclitus brought in and several other learned men, among them Antiochus's brother Aristus, and besides Aristo and Dio, to whom he assigned the most weight after his brother, we spent much time in that one discussion.

Yes, and Dio the philosopher records that a certain woman, Lysidice, out of excess of modesty bathed in her very tunic;

but they claim that they have paid the money to Lampis, the servant of Dio, in Bosporus.

After this, men of Athens, the defendant was left in Bosporus, while Lampis put to sea, and was shipwrecked not far from the port;

Shall I tell you how Phormio the boatswain, a slave of Dio of Phrearrii, uplifted her from that chaste profession?

that through him I came to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dio, and Brutus, and conceived the idea of a commonwealth under equal laws, governed by equality and freedom of speech, and of a kingship that honours above all else the liberty of the governed.