“…ὥσπερ εἰς λαβύρινθον ἐμπεσόντες” – Plato, Euthydemus 291b4

Arius Didymus and why the Stoic sage can cook lentils perfectly An Odd Claim about the Sage It is maintained by Athenaeus, a third century CE Greek rhetorician, in his work, The Deipnosophistae, that the Stoic sage will be the only person who is able to cook lentils prudently (Greek: phronimos). This, as he claims,…