Vitae philosophorum

According to Apollodorus in his Chronology, he departed this life in the fourth year of the 162nd Olympiad[*](129-128 b.c.) at the age of eighty-five years. Letters of his to Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia, are extant. Everything else was compiled by his pupils; he himself left nothing in writing. I have written upon him in logaoedic metre as follows[*](Anth. Plan. v. 39.):

Why, Muse, oh why wouldst thou have me censure Carneades? For he is ignorant who knoweth not how he feared death. When wasting away with the worst of diseases, he would not find release. But when he heard that Antipater’s life was quenched by drinking a potion,