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Boethvs of Sidon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. F. Dobson
J. F. Dobson
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The UniversityBristol
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The study of post-Aristotelian philosophy is constantly confused by the perplexing way in which the names of philosophers recur. Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, is sufficiently well known not be confused with either Zeno the Eleatic or the later Stoic, Zeno of Tarsus, a disciple of Chrysippus; but when we come to less distinguished names the opportunity of error is greater. If two philosophers of the same name are prominent members of different schools, there ought to be no obscurity, but in an age of eclecticism one school will sometimes adopt doctrines from another, and so make classification difficult.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1914 , pp. 88 - 90
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1914

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page 88 note 2 Bake attached great importance to this passage owing to the vulgate reading current in his time, Bόηθος γούν καί Поσιδώνιоς καί Пαναļтιоς, άνόрες έν тоίς Σνωïκοις δьγμαιν ίσχυκьτς,&τεθεьληπτοι όντες,πρός θειότερον δьγμα νές άφθαρσίας νού κόσμου παντός ηύτομьλησαν.But και IIοσιδωνιος proves to have been an attempt of Turnebus to restore a corrupt MS. reading, and Bernays recovered from the Medicean the now generally accepted ò Σιδŵνιоς

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page 89 note 2 Maass attributes it to Sporos of Nicaea, first to second century A.D,

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page 90 note 1 His views were unorthodox on some points (Ammonius in Arist. An. Pr. I. 45). There was also an Academic Boethus (Ind. Here. col. 28), but he considerately selected a different birthplace, as far as we know. Boethus, a compiler of Platonic λέξεις, is mentioned by. the Patriarch, Photius (Bibl. 154, 155).Google Scholar