Death & Dying
Book VII, 117: On Zeno
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Zeno, reverend grey-browed sage, thou didst found the self-sufficient life, abandoning the pursuit of vainglorious wealth; for virile (and thou didst train thyself to foresight) was the school of thought thou didst institute, the mother of dauntless freedom. If thy country were Phoenicia what reproach is that? Cadmus too, from whom Greece learnt writing, was a Phoenician.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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