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	Diogenes Laertius, Life of Menedemus, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS, TRANSLATED BY C.D. THIS Menedemus was one of those who belonged to the school of Phaedo; and he was one of those who are called Theoprobidae, being the son of Clisthenes, a man of noble family, but a poor man and a builder.
		But when Menedemus was sent by the Eretrians to Megara, as one of the garrison, he deserted the rest, and went to the Academy to Plato; and being charmed by him, he abandoned the army altogether.
		Menedemus was not easy to be understood, and in his conversation he was hard to argue against; he spoke on every subject, and had a great deal of invention and readiness.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlmenedemus.htm (1895 words)

	Joy.
		Menedemus is presumed to have been inclined toward the teachings of Stilpo and the Megarian sect.
		When Menedemus' opinions were demanded, he answered that he was free, thus intimating that most men were enslaved to their opinions.
		Menedemus was apparently of a somewhat belligerent temperament and often returned from his lectures in a badly bruised condition.
	www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.meditation/messages/122449.html (1570 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1037 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A friend and attendant of Lucullus, who was thought to have saved the life of that general during the war against Mithridates, by refusing to admit a Scythian chief named Olthacus into the tent where Lucullus was sleeping.
		His first wife he divorced when he rose to distinction in the government of Eretria, that he might marry one of rank and wealth, though the management of the household was still left to the former wife, whom Asclepiades married, his first wife being dead.
		Of the philosophy of Menedemus little is known, except that it closely resembled that of the Mega* rian school.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2145.html (1035 words)

	tershak1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We learn that Menedemus is the self-tormentor, punishing himself for taking too harsh a stand with his son, Clinia.
		Whether from a suspicion roused by Menedemus' sad predicament, or from a habit of spying, Chremes detains his guest a bit longer to eavesdrop on Clitipho and Clinia.
		While Menedemus realizes the great joy of gaining a prudent son and a worthy daughter-in-law, Chremes realizes tht he has fostered an incontinent son with a prostituting mistress, not to mention an overly clever slave and a disobedient wife.
	www.umilta.net /tershak1.htm (6890 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cynic School of Philosophy
		His interview with Alexander, of which the simplest version is to be found in Plutarch, was greatly exaggerated by subsequent tradition.
		The followers of Diogenes, namely, Crates, Menedemus, and Menippus, imitated all his eccentricities and so exaggerated the anti-social elements in the Cynic system that the school finally fell into disrepute.
		Nevertheless, there were in the Cynic philosophy elements, especially the ethical element, which later became a source of genuine inspiration in the Stoic School.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04582a.htm (435 words)

	Terentius, Publius Afer -- extract from "The Self-Tormentor" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		[MENEDEMUS, haggard and shabbily dressed, is wearily trudging home carrying a heavy pronged hoe when his neighbour CHREMES comes out of his house to speak to him.
		CHREMES [in some embarrassment as MENEDEMUS takes no notice] I know it's not long since we became acquainted, in fact it all started with your buying the farm next to mine, and this is the first time we've really had much to do with each other ....
		All the same, there's something about you -- or maybe it's the fact that we're neighbours, which I always think is the next best thing to being friends -- which makes me feel that I ought to speak out frankly and give you some friendly advice.
	www.xs4all.nl /~josvg/cits/terence/extract.html (380 words)

	Chapter 21. Tabooed Things. § 2. Iron tabooed. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		As a general rule iron might not be brought into Greek sanctuaries.
		In Crete sacrifices were offered to Menedemus without the use of iron, because the legend ran that Menedemus had been killed by an iron weapon in the Trojan war.
		The Archon of Plataea might not touch iron; but once a year, at the annual commemoration of the men who fell at the battle of Plataea, he was allowed to carry a sword wherewith to sacrifice a bull.
	www.bartleby.com /196/45.html (1166 words)

	Erasmus, The Colloquies (1878) Vol. 2: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nay, Menedemus, if you saw the Inside of it, you would say it was the Seat of the Saints, it is all so glittering with Jewels, Gold and Silver.
		I don’t at all wonder, Menedemus, that you are so incredulous; I should not have believ’d it myself, if the whole Tribe of Divines had asserted it, unless I had seen it with these Eyes, I say, beheld with these very Eyes, and had experienced the Truth of it.
		Believe me, Menedemus, in such Cases as this, those that make Use of their Modesty, employ it to a wrong Use.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Erasmus0096/Colloquies/0046-02_Bk.html (13523 words)

	Philosophical School Of Elis - LoveToKnow 1911
		It existed for a very short time and was then transferred by Menedemus to Eretria, where it became known as the Eretrian school.
		Its chief members, beside Phaedo, were Anchipylus, Moschus and Pleistanus (see Phaedo and Menedemus).
		This page was last modified 16:01, 22 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Philosophical_School_Of_Elis (57 words)

	Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 eBook
		The passage from Erasmus, “brachium habet ova serpentum,” is plainly to be rendered “and with a string of serpents’ eggs on your arm.” The meaning is equally apparent on recalling the manner in which snakes’ eggs are found, viz., hanging together in a row.
		Erasmus intends Menedemus to utter a joke at the rosary of beads hanging over the pilgrim’s arm, which he professes to mistake for serpents’ eggs.
		I am not aware what particular propriety the “collar or chaplet” (for it may mean either) of straw may have, as worn by a pilgrim from Compostella; or whether there may not lurk under this description, as beneath {25} the other, a jocular sense.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/11265/12.html (361 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1036 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Of Alabanda, a celebrated rhetorician, who lived shortly before the time of Cicero.
		34.) He is probably the same with the Menedemus men tioned by Cicero with considerable aversion as a friend of Caesar (PhUipp.
		A citizen of high rank at Crotona, who was appointed one of the generals to carry on the war against the exiles that had been driven from the city on occasion of the war with Syracuse in b.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2144.html (822 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.23
		That there are 32 fragments of 10 titled plays, probably all satyric according to CP, would tend, I think, to defend Menedemus of Eretria from the charge of mere local pride in placing Achaeus second after Aeschylus in the field of satyr play.
		An exhaustive excursus of some 21 pages discusses whether to attribute Fr.1, a speech of 40 or 42 lines spoken by Sisyphus, to a play of the tyrant (as in Sextus Empiricus) or to one of Euripides (as in Aetius) and leaves the question open.
		Of the former there are fragments of a satyric drama on Menedemus (c.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-11-23.html (2053 words)

	ARISTOTLE biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Speusippus died in 339, a time when Athens was beginning to move toward a revolt against Macedonia and the treaty with Philip from the year 346.
		Aristotle was probably one of the candidates proposed for head of the Academy, but not more so than that the vote was between Xenocrates, whom Speusippus himself had wanted to succeed him, Menedemus of Pyrrha and Heraclides of Pontus.
		If Aristotle was indeed suggested for the post, it was probably not taken very seriously, either from the members of the Academy or from Aristotle himself.
	www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/aristotle/aristotle-08-lyceum.htm (4145 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Diogenes Laërtius: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Book VI: The Cynics
		Not but what Echecles was also a pupil of Theombrotus; and Menedemus, of whom we shall speak hereafter, was his pupil.
		But some say that the books attributed to him are not really his work, but are the composition of Dionysius and Zopyrus the Colophonians, who wrote them out of joke, and then gave them to him as a man well able to dispose of them.
		MENEDEMUS was a disciple of Celotes of Lampsaeus.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/diogeneslaertius-book6-cynics.html (7261 words)

	Old Stuff: The Fifth Day of September
		The Christians recovered his body and gave it honorable burial at Amiterno, in the land of the Vestinians.
		At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Urban, Theodore, Menedemus, and their seventy-seven companions of ecclesiastical rank.
		Because of their Catholic faith, they were placed by the Emperor Valens on board a ship and ordered to be burned at sea.
	members.wri.com /billw/blog/archives/000131.shtml (369 words)

	Index of names: Me
		295/12 Menedemus studies philosophy as a pupil of Stilpon.
		287/10 Menedemus is sent as ambassador from Eretria to Demetrius.
		282/11 Menedemus is sent as an ambassador to Ptolemaeus.
	www.attalus.org /names/me.html (3601 words)

	History of Philosophy 8
		from Elis to Eretria by Menedemus (died about 270 B.C.) and was henceforth known as the Eretrian school.
		He must not, however, be held accountable for the extravagances of the later Cynics.
		Of these the best known are Diogenes of Sinope, Crates, Menedemus, and Menippus.
	www2.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hop08.htm (2406 words)

	265 B.C. - events and references
		A saying of Straton, about the followers of Menedemus.
		Sayings of Menedemus, addressed to Alexinus, Antigonus, Bion, Hierocles, and others.
		General comments on the character and beliefs of Menedemus.
	www.attalus.org /bc3/year265.html (259 words)

	Lucullus by Plutarch
		For so it was, and Menedemus, one of the bedchamber, was standing at the door, who told Olthacus that it was altogether unseasonable to see the general, since, after long watching and hard labour, he was but just before laid down to repose himself.
		Olthacus would not go away upon this denial, but still persisted, saying that he must go in to speak of some necessary affairs, whereupon Menedemus grew angry, and replied that nothing was more necessary than the safety of Lucullus, and forced him away with both hands.
		Upon which, out of fear, he straightway left the camp, took horse, and without effect returned to Mithridates.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Lucullus/5.html (930 words)

	The pilgrimage of passion in Sidney''s Arcadia. - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The speakers of the Peregrinatio religionis ergo are Ogygius, who has been on pilgrimage to Compostela, and Menedemus, the sceptic.
		In De votis temere susceptis, Cornelius makes a similar observation about the antique monuments of Jerusalem, `all of which I thought faked and contrived for the purpose of enticing naive and credulous folk' (Erasmus 1997a: 37).
		Pilgrims are particularly vulnerable to the lure of curiosity: Menedemus assumes that Ogydius travelled `out of curiosity, I dare say', to which the riposte is, `On the contrary, out of devotion' (Erasmus 1997b: 623; on curiosity see also Zacher 1976 and Williams 1998: 23-24).
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-1828778_ITM (6931 words)

	Sample Conference Proposals
		In my paper, I will examine "A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake," one of the colloquies printed in 1526, a pivotal time of conflict between Erasmus and Luther.
		“A Pilgrimage” is a dialogue between two friends, Menedemus and Ogygius.
		They have met after Ogygius's pilgrimage to the shrines of St. James of Compostella, Our Lady of Walsingham, and St. Thomas of Canterbury.
	www.cgu.edu /print/919.asp (880 words)

	TERENCE
		All the same, there's something about you--or maybe it's the fact that we're neighbours, which I always think is the next best thing to being friends--which makes me feel that I ought to speak out frankly and give you some friendly advice.
		[He waits until MENEDEMUS looks up.] Your behaviour doesn't seem to me to be right for a man of your age and circumstances.
		DEMEA: But I mean it, Syrus, as you'll soon see.
	www.wfu.edu /~ulery/CLA272/course-materials/TERENCE.html (753 words)

	UNIT VI - Terence
		This play was first produced in 163 B.C. and the cast of characters in the first act includes Chremes, an Athenian gentleman; Clitipho, his son; and Menedemus, a neighbor of Chremes.
		The scene opens on the farm of Menedemus, somewhere near Athens.
		29 hunccine and hujus refer to Clinia; illius and illum refer to Menedemus.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/classics/wziobro/Readings/UNITVI.htm (2928 words)

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