Excerpt from Menander: The Principal Fragments; With an English Translation Before this Menander had been the companion-at arms (ovve'c/mbog 2) of Epicurus, his junior by one year, and when he was in his thirties Zeno 3 the Stoic was already in'athens developing the philo Sophy of the Porch. Suggestions of the influence of Theophrastus4 reappear now and again in Menander's character-drawing, but the impact of the creed of his companion Epicurus is obvious, and the phiiosophic impassiveness (erapaeia) of the Epicureans seems occasionally 5 tempered to an even finer edge of Stoic courage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.