Life
He was a contemporary of Cicero, who heard him when at Athens.
He was sometimes termed the "leading Epicurean" (Latin: Coryphaeus Epicureorum). Cicero states that Zeno was contemptuous of other philosophers, and even called Socrates "the Attic Buffoon (scurram Atticum)." He was a disciple of Apollodorus, and Cicero and Diogenes Laërtius both describe him as an accurate and polished thinker.
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