CHAP. III.
His School and institution of a Sect.
HAving been long a hearer of others, he at last thought fit to communicate the Learning which he had received and im∣proved. To this* 1.1 end he made choice of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the painted walk, so named from the pictures of Polygnotus, otherwise called Pisianactia. Here he constantly walked and discoursed, resolving to settle there, and make the place as full of tranquillity as it had been before of trouble: For, in the time of the thirty Ty∣rants, neer 1400 Citizens were there put to death.
Hither resorted a great many Disciples to him, who were at first called Zenonians, as Epicure affirmeth, from their Master; afterwards from the place where he taught, Stoicks, as Erato∣sthenes in his eight Book of antient Comedy; adding, that not long before, some Poets that lived there were called Stoicks also, upon which occasion the name was very well known.
He was subtle in disquisition and dispute.
He disputed earnestly with Philo the Dialectick, and exercised himselfe together with him: so that Zeno the younger admired him no lesse, then his Master Diodorus.
He first seemeth (saith Laertius) to have set a bound to the loosnesse and extravagance of propositions: But, of this more, when we come to speak of his Philosophy, which by reason of its largenesse, we remit to the end of his life.