and so he died. But the Athenians buried him in the Ceramicus, and honoured him with the decrees which I have mentioned before, bearing witness to his virtue. And Antipater, the Sidonian, wrote an inscription for him, which runs thus:—
And Zenodotus, the Stoic, a disciple of Diogenes, wrote another:—
And Athenæus, the Epigrammatic poet, speaks thus of all the Stoics in common:—
And we also have ourselves spoken of the manner of Zeno’s death, in our collection of poems in all metres, in the following terms:—
For some say that this was the way in which he died. And this is enough to say concerning his death.
XXVII. But Demetrius, the Magnesian, says, in his essay on People of the Same Name, that his father Mnaseas often came to Athens, as he was a merchant, and that he used to bring back many of the books of the Socratic philosophers, to Zeno, while he was still only a boy; and that, from this circumstance, Zeno