Some of the treatises of Cleanthes were written expressly to confute him.
[69] Anacharsis was (Herod., iv., 76) son of Gnurus and brother of Saulius, King of Thrace.

He came to Athens while Solon was occupied in framing laws for his people; and by the simplicity of his way of living, and his acute observations on the manners of the Greeks, he excited such general admiration that he was reckoned by some writers among the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
[70] This was Appius Claudius Caecus, who was censor 310 B.C., and who, according to Livy, was afflicted with blindness by the Gods for persuading the Potitii to instruct the public servants in the way of sacrificing to Hercules.

He it was who made the Via Appia.
[71] The fact of Homer's blindness rests on a passage in the Hymn to Apollo, quoted by Thucydides as a genuine work of Homer, and which is thus spoken of by one of the most accomplished scholars that this country or this age has ever produced: "They are indeed beautiful verses; and if none worse had ever been attributed to Homer, the Prince of Poets would have had little reason to complain.
"He has been describing the Delian festival in honor of Apollo and Diana, and concludes this part of the poem with an address to the women of that island, to whom it is to be supposed that he had become familiarly known by his frequent recitations: [Greek: Chairete d' hymeis pasai, emeio de kai metopisthe mnesasth', hoppote ken tis epichthonion anthropon enthad' aneiretai xeinos talapeirios elthon o kourai, tis d' hymmin aner hedistos aoidon enthade poleitai kai teo terpesthe malista; hymeis d' eu mala pasai hypokrinasthe aph' hemon, Typhlos aner, oikei de Chio eni paipaloesse, tou pasai metopisthen aristeuousin aoidai.] Virgins, farewell--and oh! remember me Hereafter, when some stranger from the sea, A hapless wanderer, may your isle explore, And ask you, 'Maids, of all the bards you boast, Who sings the sweetest, and delights you most ?' Oh! answer all, 'A blind old man, and poor, Sweetest he sings, and dwells on Chios' rocky shore.' _Coleridge's Introduction to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets._ [72] Some read _scientiam_ and some _inscientiam;_ the latter of which is preferred by some of the best editors and commentators.
[73] For a short account of these ancient Greek philosophers, see the sketch prefixed to the Academics (_Classical Library_).
[74] Cicero wrote his philosophical works in the last three years of his life.

When he wrote this piece, he was in the sixty-third year of his age, in the year of Rome 709.
[75] The Academic.
[76] Diodorus and Posidonius were Stoics; Philo and Antiochus were Academics; but the latter afterward inclined to the doctrine of the Stoics.
[77] Julius Caesar.
[78] Cicero was one of the College of Augurs.
[79] The Latinae Feriae was originally a festival of the Latins, altered by Tarquinius Superbus into a Roman one.

It was held in the Alban Mount, in honor of Jupiter Latiaris.