never allow, in dispute with the Peripatetics, that
logic was only an instrument, and not a part of phi-
keophy. To later writers the rigid logical mode of
treating subjects regardless of all beauty of language
appeared to be a peculiarity of the Stoic school,' and
hence that school was characteristically known as the
School of the Reasoners.? Frequent instances will
be found hereafter of the Stoic preference for dry
argument and formal logic;* in Chrysippus this
fondness degenerated to a dry formalism devoid of


taste.
The foregoing remarks have already established C. Divi-


the three main divisions of philosophy ‘ which were


stons of


philosophy.
universally acknowledged by the Stoics °— Logic, (1) Three-
Jold divi-


the blame of Chrysippus (in
Piut. Sto. Rep. 10, 1) is the
weptical logic, which leaves con-
tradictions unsolved: τοῖς μὲν
γὰρ ἐποχὴν ἄγουσι περὶ πάντων
ἐτιβάλλει, φησὶ, τοῦτο ποιεῖν, καὶ
συνεργόν dor: πρὸς ὃ βούλονται"
τοῖς δ' ἐπιστήμην ἐνεργαζομένοις,
af ἂν ὁμολογουμένως ξΕιωσόμεθα
τὰ ἐναντία στοιχειοῦν.
1 Cie. Parad. Proem.: Cato
antem perfectus mea sententia
Stoicus .. . in ea est hieresi, que
nullum sequitur florem orationis
beque dilatat argumentum: mi-
nutis interrogatiunculis, quasi
punctis, quod proposuit efficit.
Cie. Fin. iv. 3,7: Pungunt quasi
aculeis interrogatiunculis angus-
tis, quibus etiam qui assentiuntur
nihil commutantur animo. See
also Diog. vii. 18, 20.
2 In Sextus Empiricus, Λιαλεκ-
τικοὶ is their ordinary name. It
is also found in Piut. Qu. Plat.
Ε


x. I, 2.
3, 6.
* After the example of the
Megarians, the Stoics were in the
habit of couching their arguments
in the form of a question. Hence
the terms λόγον ἐρωτᾶν (Diog.
vii. 186), interrogatio (Sen. Ep.
