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| | Diogenes Laertius: Life of Crantor, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge |
 | | BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS, TRANSLATED BY C.D. CRANTOR, a native of Soli, being admired very greatly in his own country, came to Athens and became a pupil of Xenocrates at the same time with Polemo. |
 | | And he left behind him memorials, in the shape of writings, to the number of 30,000 lines, some of which, however, are by some writers attributed to Arcesilaus. |
 | | And of all writers, Crantor admired Homer and Euripides most; saying that the hardest thing possible was to write tragically and in a manner to excite sympathy, without departing from nature; and he used to quote this line out of the Bellerophon : |
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