Zeno was the founder of the Stoic philosophy.
Pyrrho was the founder of the Sceptic school.
Philip of Macedon lost an eye at the siege of Methone by a slinger's pebble.
Melitus was one of the disputants with Socrates, and was always vanquished by him.
Dionysius, the Tyrant of Syracuse, was also a Poet and was a candidate for the prize at the Olympic games, but was conquered and therefore feared the more skilful "stylus" (pen) of the victors.
Tyrtæus, a lame schoolmaster of Athens, inspired the Lacedæmonians by his patriotic war-songs, and thus contributed largely to their victories.
CHAPTER XVI
MORAL PROGRESS THROUGH A NEW FORM OF SELECTION
Many readers, and some writers of books on organic evolution, seem quite unaware that Darwin established two modes of selection, both alike "natural" but acting in different ways and producing somewhat different results. He termed the second mode "sexual selection," and in his Origin of Species he briefly describes it as consisting in the fighting of males for the possession of females, which undoubtedly occurs in numbers of the higher vertebrates and also in insects.