Fabricius
identifies
reutice), and in that of book xxxv.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
In this sense he on the one hand de-
rate definition, borrowed from Plato, that it is only noted (perfect) happiness as the possession of per-
in so far as number reconciles the opposition be sonal virtue, and the capabilities adapted to it, and
tween the same and the different, and has raised therefore reckoned among its constituent elements,
itself to self-motion, that it is soul. We find a besides moral actions conditions and facilities
similar attempt at the supplementation of the Pla- (apáfers, @fers, kad Bladegers), those movements
tonic doctrine in Xenocrates's assumption of indivi- and relations (oxéress) also without which ex-
sible lines (Aristot de Lin, insec. Phys. A usc. vi. 2; ternal good things cannot be attained (Ciem. Alex.
comp. Simpl
. in Arist. Phys. f. 30). In them he Strom. ii
. p. 419; comp. Cic. de Fin. iv. 7, v. 9,
thought he had discorered what, according to Plato Acad. ii. 44, 45, Tusc. iv. 10, 26, 31), and on
(Tim. p. 53, c. ), God alone knows, and he among the other hand did not allow that wisdom, under-
men who is loved hy him, namely, the elements or stood as the science of first causes or intelligible
principia of the Platonic triangles. He seems to essence, or as theoretical understanding, is by
have described them as first, original lines, and in itself the true wisdom which should be striven
a similar sense to have spoken of original plain after by men (Clem. Alex. Strom. ii. p. 369 ; Cic.
figures and bodies (Simpl. in Arisl. de Caelo; Schol. Acad. ii. 44, 45), and therefore seems to have re-
in Arist. p. 510. 35), convinced that the principia garded this human wisdom as at the same time
of the existent should be sought not in the material, exerted in investigating, defining, and applying
not in the divisible which attains to the condition (Sewpntik) Kal Opiotinń, Arist. Top. vi. 3). How
of a phenomenon, but merely in the ideal definitude decidedly he insisted not only on the recognition of
of form. He may very well, in accordance with the unconditional nature of moral excellence, but on
this, have regarded the point as a merely subject morality of thought, is shown by his declaration, that
ively admissible presupposition, and a passage of it comes to the same thing whether one casts longing
Aristotle respecting this assumption (de Anima, i. eyes, or sets one's feet upon the property of others
4, extr. ) should perhaps be referred to him. (Aelian, V. H. xiv. 42). His moral earnestness is
Our information with regard to the Ethic of also expressed in the warning that the ears of
Xenocrates is still more scanty than that respecting children should be guarded against the poison of
his Dialectic and Physic. We only see that here, immoral speeches. (Plut. de Audit
. p. 38, a. )
also, he endeavoured to supplement the Platonic Comp. Van de Wynpersee, Diatribe de Xeno
doctrine in individual points, and at the same crate Chalcedonio, Lugd. Batav, 1822, with the
time to give it a more direct applicability to life. review in the Heidelberger Jahrbücher, 1824, p.
He distinguished from the good and the bad a 275, &c. , by the writer of this article. (Ch. A. B. )
something which is neither good nor bad (Sext. XENO'CRATES, minor literary persons.
1.
Emp. adv. Math. xi. 4). In his view, as in that At the conclusion of his life of the celebrated phi-
of the older Academy generally, the good is that losopher of Chalcedon, Dingenes Laërtius (iv. 15)
which should be striven after for itself, that is, mentions five other persons of the name. The
which has value in itself, while the bad is the first of them was a very ancient writer on Tactics
opposite of this (Cic. de Leg. i. 13). Conse- (TAKTIKÓS). Menagius (ad loc. ) identifies him
quently, that which is neither good nor bad is with the Xenocrates mentioned by Strabo (xii. p.
what in itself is neither to be striven after nor to 550) as the instructor of Hecataeus of Miletus,
be aroided, but derives value or the contrary ac and Menecrates of Elaea. (See also Ukert, Unter-
cording as it serves as means for what is good or suchungen über die Geographie des Hecataeus und
bad, or rather, is used by us for that purpose. | Damastes, Vimar. 1814, 8vo. pp. 5, foll. n. 4. )
, were regarded by siz si
ing of soal (Plut de Fx.
; doubtless becazse be a
to the divine activity, and I
? to reconcile täe dem
alve them into an argua 2. 1
for proving the incorpora 17
: that it is not counsard *
p. 31, Ans. Bet sa 2
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1294
XENOCRATES.
XENOCRITUS.
Pind. pp. 279,
Dichth. vol. i
Müller, Geschi
p. 290. )
2. Of. Rhoi
upon Lysidict
Aral rol. ii.
p. 233, vol. 1
3. Of Cos
wrote a com
crates. (Fabi
XENO C
(EV$105), set
of Heracles
2. Of Chalcedon, a relation of the celebrated with a Latin Version, by J. B. Rasarius, 1959,
philosopher, was himself a philosopher and the 8vo. , Tiguri ; and is inserted by Fabricius in the
author of an oration on the death of Arsinoë, en ninth volume of the old edition of his Bibliotheca
titled λόγος 'Αρισινοητικός. (Diog. 1. c. )
Graeca, pp. 454-474. There are three later and
3. Another philosopher, who wrote a very in- better editions, by J. G. F. Franz, 1774, 8vo.
different elegiac poem ; which gives Diogenes oc- Lips. , and by Adam. Coray, 1794, 8vo. Neap. ,
casion to remark that, when poets apply themselves and 1814, 8vo. Paris. (See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol.
to prose composition, they succeed, but when prose ii
. p. 68, xiii. p. 452, ed. vet. ; Haller, Bibl. Medic.
writers attempt poetry, they fail ; since the one Pract. ; Choulant, Handb. der Bücherkunde für
endowment comes from nature, the other from art. die Aeltere Medicin. )
(W. A. G. )
Many examples might be cited to contirm this XENO'CRATES, a statuary of the school of
observation ; but there are some instances against Lysippus, was the pupil either of Tisicrates or of
it: for example, the prose of Virgil is said to have Euthycrates, both of whom he surpassed in the
been as much inferior to his poetry, as the poetry number of his works. He also wrote works upon
of Cicero was to his prose. (Menag. au loc. ) the art. (Plin. 11. N. 8. 6. 34. § 23 ; Diog. Laërt.
4. A statuary, who wrote on his art (see next iv. 15. ) He must have flourished about Ol. 130,
column).
B. c. 260. In another passage of Pliny (xxxv. 10.
5. A writer of odes (çouata), whom Diogenes 8. 36. $5) Xenocrates is quoted for a statement
mentions on the authority of Aristoxenus. Pro- respecting Parrhasius. It does not necessarily follow
bably the name is an error for XENOCRITUS. that he wrote a distinct work on painting, for the
6. The author of an epigram in the Greek An- observation quoted might very well have been
thology, on a statue of Hermes. There is no evi- made in connection with the general subject of
dence to determine whether he was the same artistic composition. In the Elenchus of book
person as either of the two philosophers of Chalce xxxiii. Xenocrates is mentioned, among Pliny's
don, or as either of the two writers of poetry men- authorities, as a writer on the toreutic art (de to-
tioned above (Nos. 3, 5).
Fabricius identifies reutice), and in that of book xxxv. , as a writer on
him with the younger philosophier of Chalcedon. metal-work in general (de metallica disciplina). In
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 193, vol. iv. p. 326 ; the latter passage (and in the former also, accord-
Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 59; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. ing to some MSS. ) he is called Xenocrate (abl. )
vol. ii. p. 59, vol. xiii. p. 963. )
Zenonis. Whether his father's name was Zeno, or
7. Of Ephesus, an historical and geographical whether Zenonis is an error for Zenone, we have
writer, frequently quoted by Pliny, who, in one not the means of deciding. It should also be men-
passage, adds to his name the following remark, tioned, with respect to the second passage quoted
qui de iis nuperrime scripsit” (H. N. xxxvii
. 2). above from Pliny (H. N. xxxv. 10. s. 36. S 5),
He flourished, therefore, during, or immediately that Junius (de Pict. Vet. ii. 3; comp. Menag. ad
before, the time of Pliny. (Vossius, de Hist. Diog. iv. 15) proposes to read Hypsicrates for Xe-
Graec. p. 509, ed. Westermann. )
nocrates ; but all the MSS. have Xenocrates, and
8. A chronographer, who is quoted in the the reasons assigned by Junius for altering it are
Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. 'Ago upia), but of insufficient.
[P. S. ]
whom we have no further information. (Vossius,
XENOʻCRITUS (Eevókpitos), literary. 1. of
I. c. )
[P. S. ) Locri Epizephyrii, in Lower Italy, a musician and
XENO'CRATES (Eevorpátns), a physician of lyric poet, who is mentioned by Plutarch (de Mus.
Aphrodisias in Cilicia (Galen, De Simplic. Medi- , p. 1134, b. ), as one of the leaders of the second
cam. Temper. ac Facult. vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 793), school of Dorian music, which was founded by
who must have lived about the middle of the first Thaletas, and as a composer of Paeans. A little
century after Christ, as he was probably a contem- further on, Plutarch says that some ascribed to him
porary of Andromachus the Younger. (See Gal. Dithyrambs on heroic subjects, and that it was
De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. iii. 1, vol. xii. p. 627, disputed whether he wrote Paeans. The discre-
and De Ther. ad Pis. c. 12. vol. xiv. p. 260. ) Galen pancy between this passage and the former is easily
says that he lived in the second generation before explained. Plutarch is here following Glaucus, on
himself (katà tous Tárnous ñuñv, De Simplic. whose authority he adds that Xenocritus lived
Medicam. Temper. ac Facult. x. l. vol. xii. p. 248). later than Thaletas. [Thales. ] The common text
He wrote some pharmaceutical works, and is has Eevokpátous twice in this paragraph ; but I
blamed by Galen (l. c. ) for making use of disgust. Voxpirou is evidently the true reading: there are
ing remedies, for instance, human brains, flesh, other examples of the same error ; as in the passage
liver, urine, excrement, &c. One of his works of Diogenes referred to under XENOCRATES, No.
was entitled Περί της από των Ζώων Ωφελείας, | 5, where it is almost certain that Xenocritus is
“ De Utilitate ex Animalibus Percipienda” (id. meant ; as Aristoxenus, who mentioned him, wrote
ibid. x. 2. § 4, vol. xii. p. 261. ) He is several expressly on these early musicians. (See Plut. l. c.
times quoted by Galen, and also by Clemens Alex-11. )
andrinus (Strom, i. p. 717); Artemidorus (Oneirocr. Xenocritus appears to have been the founder of
iv. 24); Pliny (H. N. xx. 82); Oribasius (Coll. the Locrian style of lyric poetry, which was a
Medic. ii. 58, p. 225); Aëtius (i. 2. 84, iv. 2. 35, modification of the Aeolian ; and, if the view just
3. 14, pp. 75, 706, 760), and Alexander Trallia- given of the passage of Diogenes be correct, we
nus (i. 15, xii. 8, pp. 156, 344). Besides some must ascribe to him some, and perhaps the first, of
short fragments of his writings there is extant a the Aokpıné douata, or erotic odes, in imitation
little essay by Xenocrates, lepi tñs and twv 'Evú- of Sappho and Erinna. He is said to have been
Spw Tpooñis, “ De Alimento ex Aquatilibus," blind from his birth. (Heracleid. Pont. Pol. Fr.
preserved by Oribasius ; which is an interesting xxix. )
record of the state of Natural History at the time The whole subject of the Locrian school of
in which he lived. It was first published in Greek, I poetry is fully discussed by Böckh (de Metr,
which city el
11. $ 4. )
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rate definition, borrowed from Plato, that it is only noted (perfect) happiness as the possession of per-
in so far as number reconciles the opposition be sonal virtue, and the capabilities adapted to it, and
tween the same and the different, and has raised therefore reckoned among its constituent elements,
itself to self-motion, that it is soul. We find a besides moral actions conditions and facilities
similar attempt at the supplementation of the Pla- (apáfers, @fers, kad Bladegers), those movements
tonic doctrine in Xenocrates's assumption of indivi- and relations (oxéress) also without which ex-
sible lines (Aristot de Lin, insec. Phys. A usc. vi. 2; ternal good things cannot be attained (Ciem. Alex.
comp. Simpl
. in Arist. Phys. f. 30). In them he Strom. ii
. p. 419; comp. Cic. de Fin. iv. 7, v. 9,
thought he had discorered what, according to Plato Acad. ii. 44, 45, Tusc. iv. 10, 26, 31), and on
(Tim. p. 53, c. ), God alone knows, and he among the other hand did not allow that wisdom, under-
men who is loved hy him, namely, the elements or stood as the science of first causes or intelligible
principia of the Platonic triangles. He seems to essence, or as theoretical understanding, is by
have described them as first, original lines, and in itself the true wisdom which should be striven
a similar sense to have spoken of original plain after by men (Clem. Alex. Strom. ii. p. 369 ; Cic.
figures and bodies (Simpl. in Arisl. de Caelo; Schol. Acad. ii. 44, 45), and therefore seems to have re-
in Arist. p. 510. 35), convinced that the principia garded this human wisdom as at the same time
of the existent should be sought not in the material, exerted in investigating, defining, and applying
not in the divisible which attains to the condition (Sewpntik) Kal Opiotinń, Arist. Top. vi. 3). How
of a phenomenon, but merely in the ideal definitude decidedly he insisted not only on the recognition of
of form. He may very well, in accordance with the unconditional nature of moral excellence, but on
this, have regarded the point as a merely subject morality of thought, is shown by his declaration, that
ively admissible presupposition, and a passage of it comes to the same thing whether one casts longing
Aristotle respecting this assumption (de Anima, i. eyes, or sets one's feet upon the property of others
4, extr. ) should perhaps be referred to him. (Aelian, V. H. xiv. 42). His moral earnestness is
Our information with regard to the Ethic of also expressed in the warning that the ears of
Xenocrates is still more scanty than that respecting children should be guarded against the poison of
his Dialectic and Physic. We only see that here, immoral speeches. (Plut. de Audit
. p. 38, a. )
also, he endeavoured to supplement the Platonic Comp. Van de Wynpersee, Diatribe de Xeno
doctrine in individual points, and at the same crate Chalcedonio, Lugd. Batav, 1822, with the
time to give it a more direct applicability to life. review in the Heidelberger Jahrbücher, 1824, p.
He distinguished from the good and the bad a 275, &c. , by the writer of this article. (Ch. A. B. )
something which is neither good nor bad (Sext. XENO'CRATES, minor literary persons.
1.
Emp. adv. Math. xi. 4). In his view, as in that At the conclusion of his life of the celebrated phi-
of the older Academy generally, the good is that losopher of Chalcedon, Dingenes Laërtius (iv. 15)
which should be striven after for itself, that is, mentions five other persons of the name. The
which has value in itself, while the bad is the first of them was a very ancient writer on Tactics
opposite of this (Cic. de Leg. i. 13). Conse- (TAKTIKÓS). Menagius (ad loc. ) identifies him
quently, that which is neither good nor bad is with the Xenocrates mentioned by Strabo (xii. p.
what in itself is neither to be striven after nor to 550) as the instructor of Hecataeus of Miletus,
be aroided, but derives value or the contrary ac and Menecrates of Elaea. (See also Ukert, Unter-
cording as it serves as means for what is good or suchungen über die Geographie des Hecataeus und
bad, or rather, is used by us for that purpose. | Damastes, Vimar. 1814, 8vo. pp. 5, foll. n. 4. )
, were regarded by siz si
ing of soal (Plut de Fx.
; doubtless becazse be a
to the divine activity, and I
? to reconcile täe dem
alve them into an argua 2. 1
for proving the incorpora 17
: that it is not counsard *
p. 31, Ans. Bet sa 2
re formed of the materia
dindinite, or the audien
of the diferent modes de
br Aristotle to the Passza
87, b, p 1088 13. 6 22
2. 35) belonged this
d with certainty. *
ich of the three anco
respecting the priza pedes
the ideas and to maiset
(, a po 1050, 6, 11. 5%
183. 27comp VIA !
We can only ask. se 25
sample of Piaiabe design
## p. 1294 (#1310) ##########################################
1294
XENOCRATES.
XENOCRITUS.
Pind. pp. 279,
Dichth. vol. i
Müller, Geschi
p. 290. )
2. Of. Rhoi
upon Lysidict
Aral rol. ii.
p. 233, vol. 1
3. Of Cos
wrote a com
crates. (Fabi
XENO C
(EV$105), set
of Heracles
2. Of Chalcedon, a relation of the celebrated with a Latin Version, by J. B. Rasarius, 1959,
philosopher, was himself a philosopher and the 8vo. , Tiguri ; and is inserted by Fabricius in the
author of an oration on the death of Arsinoë, en ninth volume of the old edition of his Bibliotheca
titled λόγος 'Αρισινοητικός. (Diog. 1. c. )
Graeca, pp. 454-474. There are three later and
3. Another philosopher, who wrote a very in- better editions, by J. G. F. Franz, 1774, 8vo.
different elegiac poem ; which gives Diogenes oc- Lips. , and by Adam. Coray, 1794, 8vo. Neap. ,
casion to remark that, when poets apply themselves and 1814, 8vo. Paris. (See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol.
to prose composition, they succeed, but when prose ii
. p. 68, xiii. p. 452, ed. vet. ; Haller, Bibl. Medic.
writers attempt poetry, they fail ; since the one Pract. ; Choulant, Handb. der Bücherkunde für
endowment comes from nature, the other from art. die Aeltere Medicin. )
(W. A. G. )
Many examples might be cited to contirm this XENO'CRATES, a statuary of the school of
observation ; but there are some instances against Lysippus, was the pupil either of Tisicrates or of
it: for example, the prose of Virgil is said to have Euthycrates, both of whom he surpassed in the
been as much inferior to his poetry, as the poetry number of his works. He also wrote works upon
of Cicero was to his prose. (Menag. au loc. ) the art. (Plin. 11. N. 8. 6. 34. § 23 ; Diog. Laërt.
4. A statuary, who wrote on his art (see next iv. 15. ) He must have flourished about Ol. 130,
column).
B. c. 260. In another passage of Pliny (xxxv. 10.
5. A writer of odes (çouata), whom Diogenes 8. 36. $5) Xenocrates is quoted for a statement
mentions on the authority of Aristoxenus. Pro- respecting Parrhasius. It does not necessarily follow
bably the name is an error for XENOCRITUS. that he wrote a distinct work on painting, for the
6. The author of an epigram in the Greek An- observation quoted might very well have been
thology, on a statue of Hermes. There is no evi- made in connection with the general subject of
dence to determine whether he was the same artistic composition. In the Elenchus of book
person as either of the two philosophers of Chalce xxxiii. Xenocrates is mentioned, among Pliny's
don, or as either of the two writers of poetry men- authorities, as a writer on the toreutic art (de to-
tioned above (Nos. 3, 5).
Fabricius identifies reutice), and in that of book xxxv. , as a writer on
him with the younger philosophier of Chalcedon. metal-work in general (de metallica disciplina). In
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 193, vol. iv. p. 326 ; the latter passage (and in the former also, accord-
Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 59; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. ing to some MSS. ) he is called Xenocrate (abl. )
vol. ii. p. 59, vol. xiii. p. 963. )
Zenonis. Whether his father's name was Zeno, or
7. Of Ephesus, an historical and geographical whether Zenonis is an error for Zenone, we have
writer, frequently quoted by Pliny, who, in one not the means of deciding. It should also be men-
passage, adds to his name the following remark, tioned, with respect to the second passage quoted
qui de iis nuperrime scripsit” (H. N. xxxvii
. 2). above from Pliny (H. N. xxxv. 10. s. 36. S 5),
He flourished, therefore, during, or immediately that Junius (de Pict. Vet. ii. 3; comp. Menag. ad
before, the time of Pliny. (Vossius, de Hist. Diog. iv. 15) proposes to read Hypsicrates for Xe-
Graec. p. 509, ed. Westermann. )
nocrates ; but all the MSS. have Xenocrates, and
8. A chronographer, who is quoted in the the reasons assigned by Junius for altering it are
Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. 'Ago upia), but of insufficient.
[P. S. ]
whom we have no further information. (Vossius,
XENOʻCRITUS (Eevókpitos), literary. 1. of
I. c. )
[P. S. ) Locri Epizephyrii, in Lower Italy, a musician and
XENO'CRATES (Eevorpátns), a physician of lyric poet, who is mentioned by Plutarch (de Mus.
Aphrodisias in Cilicia (Galen, De Simplic. Medi- , p. 1134, b. ), as one of the leaders of the second
cam. Temper. ac Facult. vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 793), school of Dorian music, which was founded by
who must have lived about the middle of the first Thaletas, and as a composer of Paeans. A little
century after Christ, as he was probably a contem- further on, Plutarch says that some ascribed to him
porary of Andromachus the Younger. (See Gal. Dithyrambs on heroic subjects, and that it was
De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. iii. 1, vol. xii. p. 627, disputed whether he wrote Paeans. The discre-
and De Ther. ad Pis. c. 12. vol. xiv. p. 260. ) Galen pancy between this passage and the former is easily
says that he lived in the second generation before explained. Plutarch is here following Glaucus, on
himself (katà tous Tárnous ñuñv, De Simplic. whose authority he adds that Xenocritus lived
Medicam. Temper. ac Facult. x. l. vol. xii. p. 248). later than Thaletas. [Thales. ] The common text
He wrote some pharmaceutical works, and is has Eevokpátous twice in this paragraph ; but I
blamed by Galen (l. c. ) for making use of disgust. Voxpirou is evidently the true reading: there are
ing remedies, for instance, human brains, flesh, other examples of the same error ; as in the passage
liver, urine, excrement, &c. One of his works of Diogenes referred to under XENOCRATES, No.
was entitled Περί της από των Ζώων Ωφελείας, | 5, where it is almost certain that Xenocritus is
“ De Utilitate ex Animalibus Percipienda” (id. meant ; as Aristoxenus, who mentioned him, wrote
ibid. x. 2. § 4, vol. xii. p. 261. ) He is several expressly on these early musicians. (See Plut. l. c.
times quoted by Galen, and also by Clemens Alex-11. )
andrinus (Strom, i. p. 717); Artemidorus (Oneirocr. Xenocritus appears to have been the founder of
iv. 24); Pliny (H. N. xx. 82); Oribasius (Coll. the Locrian style of lyric poetry, which was a
Medic. ii. 58, p. 225); Aëtius (i. 2. 84, iv. 2. 35, modification of the Aeolian ; and, if the view just
3. 14, pp. 75, 706, 760), and Alexander Trallia- given of the passage of Diogenes be correct, we
nus (i. 15, xii. 8, pp. 156, 344). Besides some must ascribe to him some, and perhaps the first, of
short fragments of his writings there is extant a the Aokpıné douata, or erotic odes, in imitation
little essay by Xenocrates, lepi tñs and twv 'Evú- of Sappho and Erinna. He is said to have been
Spw Tpooñis, “ De Alimento ex Aquatilibus," blind from his birth. (Heracleid. Pont. Pol. Fr.
preserved by Oribasius ; which is an interesting xxix. )
record of the state of Natural History at the time The whole subject of the Locrian school of
in which he lived. It was first published in Greek, I poetry is fully discussed by Böckh (de Metr,
which city el
11. $ 4. )
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