[515] Lag. 732. 23; the terms correspond to δύναμις and ἐνέργεια, or ὕλη and εἶδος, respectively.
[516] 647. 7.
[517] Lag. 744. 1 ff.
[518] 696. 24; cf. 681. 22.
[519] 705. 35.
[520] 716. 14.
[521] Lag. 663. 36; cf. 666. 5.
[522] P. 680. 2 ff.
[523] Cf. also Sigillus Sigillorum (ii. 2. 192), where Polemon and Laurentius are added to the above list. The highest kind of “contraction” or concentration is the subject, viz. that which is proper to philosophers. Cf. also De Vinculis in genere (vol. iii. p. 657). Diogenes the Cynic and Epicurus are placed side by side as having held that they had attained the highest good in this life possible to man, when they could keep the mind free from pain, fear, anger, or other melancholy passions and preserve it in a certain heroic delight. By this contempt of the ignoble things in this life, viz. those subject to change, they protested that they had attained, even in this mortal body, to a life similar to that of the gods.
[524] Lag. 700. 35; cf. 681. 19.