Book 6
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Of the Use of Wine, or Of Intoxication, or Of the Cyclops. Of Circe. Of Amphiaraus. Of Odysseus, Penelope and the Dog.
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The contents of the tenth volume are: Heracles, or Midas. Heracles, or Of Wisdom or Strength. Cyrus, or The Beloved. Cyrus, or The Scouts. Menexenus, or On Ruling. Alcibiades. Archelaus, or Of Kingship.
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This is the list of his writings.
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Timon finds fault with him for writing so much and calls him a prolific trifler. He died of disease just as Diogenes, who had come in, inquired of him, Have you need of a friend? Once too Diogenes, when he came to him, brought a dagger. And when Antisthenes cried out, Who will release me from these pains? replied, This, showing him the dagger. I said, quoth the other, from my pains, not from life.
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It was thought that he showed some weakness in bearing his malady through love of life. And here are my verses upon himAnth. Pal. vii. 115.: Such was your nature, Antisthenes, that in your lifetime you were a very bulldog to rend the heart with words, if not with teeth. Yet you died of consumption. Maybe some one will say, What of that? We must anyhow have some guide to the world below.
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There have been three other men named Antisthenes: one a follower of Heraclitus, another a native of Ephesus, and the third of Rhodes, a historian.
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And whereas we have enumerated the pupils of Aristippus and of Phaedo, we will now append an account of the Cynics and Stoics who derive from Antisthenes. And let it be in the following order.
