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Diodotus the Stoic
Diodotus
also: Diodotus Stoicus
Greek Stoic philosopher and Cicero's lifelong companion: lived in Cicero's house from the orator's youth to his own death in 60 BC, blind in his last years; left Cicero his fortune. The teacher whose lessons in dialectic Cicero refers back to in the philosophical works.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.20 §6 Diodotus has died; he has left us perhaps HS 10,000,000(?)
Diodotus the Stoic, Cicero's teacher and household philosopher who had lived blind in his house for years, has just died and left Cicero a substantial legacy (the sum, perhaps ten million sesterces, is textually uncertain). The bequest reflects the intimacy of their long association.
- Ad Familiares 13.16 §4 Diodotus the Stoic
The Stoic philosopher who lived in Cicero's house from the orator's youth until his own death, blind, in 60 BC; Cicero cites him as the teacher of his dialectic. Apollonius shared that household schooling.
- Ad Familiares 13.16 §4 Diodotus the Stoic
The Stoic philosopher who lived in Cicero's house from his youth until Diodotus's death in 60 BC, blind in his last years; the teacher whose lessons in dialectic Cicero refers back to in the philosophical works.
- Brutus §309 exercised, among other things, most diligently in dialectic
Dialectic: the Stoic art of close, rigorous argument, which Cicero calls 'eloquence drawn tight.' He learned it from the Stoic Diodotus, who lived and died in his house.
- Tusculan Disputations §5.113 Diodotus the Stoic lived in our house for many years, blind
Diodotus the Stoic, Cicero's own teacher and a long-term member of his household, who, though blind, pursued philosophy, music, and even geometry by dictation. He embodies the thesis that the life of the mind needs no eyes.