Panaetius

What has Chrysippus left out among the Stoics?

Nor was that Laelius, who as a young man had heard the Stoic Diogenes and afterward Panaetius, called wise because he did not understand what was most delicious — for it does not follow that he whose heart is wise should not have a wise palate — but because he reckoned it of little worth.

And so a man most freeborn and grave, worthy of that intimacy of Scipio and Laelius, Panaetius, when he wrote to Quintus Tubero about the bearing of pain — what ought to have been the head of the matter, if it could be proved, namely that pain is not an evil — he nowhere set down, but what it was, and of what kind, and how much there was in it of alien, and then what the method of enduring it was;

That soul, now, which — if it is of these four kinds, of which all things are said to consist — is composed of inflamed breath (as I see it seems best to Panaetius above all), must of necessity make for the upper regions.

Shall we, then, believe Panaetius, when he dissents from his own Plato?

I could wish Panaetius were here — he lived with Africanus — that I might ask of him whose among his kin was that great-nephew of Africanus's brother like, who in face was like his father, but in life so like all the most abandoned men that he was easily the basest;

But since I have learned that Marcus Cato learned Greek letters in his old age, and since the histories tell us that of Publius Africanus, on that famous embassy which he undertook before his censorship, Panaetius was the one and only companion, I need seek no further authority either for Greek letters or for philosophy.

But this indeed is clear, since Panaetius, almost the chief of the Stoics in my judgement at least, says that he doubts about that matter which all the Stoics except him think most certain — that the responses of soothsayers, auspices, oracles, dreams, prophecies are true — and withholds himself from assent:

for it is not great, but a little golden one, and, as Panaetius advises Tubero, to be learned by heart word for word.

What Panaetius answered to the man who asked about love, this I say about all the passions.

It seems to me that Panaetius answered elegantly a certain young man who asked whether the wise man would fall in love.

To Zeno, or to Cleanthes, or to Chrysippus, or to Panaetius, or to Posidonius?

Panaetius, Chaeredemus, Diacritus, and Lysistratus;

Panaetius, Diacritus, Lysistratus, and Chaeredemus.

Alcibiades, Niciades, Meletus, Archebiades, Archippus, Diogenes, Polystratus, Aristomenes, Oeonias, Panaetius.

From which our school thinks that will come to pass about which they used to say Panaetius was in doubt — that at the last the whole world will catch fire, when the moisture is consumed and neither can the earth be nourished nor the air return, whose origin could not be, all the water being drained away:

Besides these, Panaetius declared the end to be living according to the occasions given us from nature.

But it is divided into parts — now into two by Plato, now into three by Zeno, now into five and into six by Panaetius, into seven by Soranus, even into eight in the school of Chrysippus, even into nine in that of Apollophanes;