Book 10
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And then there is Leonteus of Lampsacus and his wife Themista, to whom Epicurus wrote letters; further, ColotesColotes, a great admirer of the master, wrote a work to prove that life is impossible by the rules of any other philosophy. Plutarch wrote a tract against him: Πρὸς Κολώτην 1107 e-1127; and also a rejoinder entitled, Οὐδὲ ζῆν ἔστιν ἡδέως κατ’ Ἐπίκουρον, to prove that even a pleasurable life is unattainable on the principles of Epicurus. and Idomeneus, who were also natives of Lampsacus. All these were distinguished, and with them Polystratus, the successor of Hermarchus; he was succeeded by Dionysius, and he by Basilides. Apollodorus, known as the tyrant of the garden, who wrote over four hundred books, is also famous; and the two Ptolemaei of Alexandria, the one black and the other white; and ZenoCf. Cic. Ac. Post. 146; N.D. i. 59. of Sidon, the pupil of Apollodorus, a voluminous author;
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and Demetrius,Cf. Sext. Emp. Adv. math. viii. 348 sqq.; Strabo, xiv. 658. who was called the Laconian; and Diogenes of Tarsus, who compiled the select lectures; and Orion, and others whom the genuine Epicureans call Sophists.
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There were three other men who bore the name of Epicurus: one the son of Leonteus and Themista; another a Magnesian by birth; and a third, a drillsergeant.
