Talk:Herillus

From Carthage or Chalcedon?
As I specified in a footnote to the article, there is just as much manuscript evidence to make Herillus a native of the Greek town of Chalcedon as of the Phoenician colony of Chartage. The most recent editor of Diogenes Laertius prefers the former, and wisely so, I think. If Herillus had really been a Carthaginian, and not a Greek, one would have expected Diogenes to make more of the fact, as he does with Clitomachus of Carthage (iv. 67 ): as for the latter we are informed that his original - Carthaginian - name was Hasdrubal, and that he used to lecture on philosophy in his native language, but nothing of the sort is found in Diogenes' account of Herillus. It is also revealing that Cicero does allude to Clitomachus' Carthaginian background (Ac. 2, 31, 98), but says nothing about Herillus' origins, although he mentions him several times. --Fabullus (talk) 09:41, 23 February 2010 (UTC)