ABSTRACT
Toward the end of his account of Peripatetic ethics and before turning to politics, (Arius?) Didymus takes up different kinds or types of life (p. 143.24–145.10 W). Preceding are brief discussions of emotion, friendship and favor (142.14–143.23) and following is a somewhat longer discussion of moral and intellectual virtue (145.11–147.25). These topics have already received attention earlier in the epitome, 1 so that the discussions give the appearance of poorly placed afterthoughts: they record/summarize what Didymus found in several unused sources. The discussion of types of life gives a similar impression. It is treated briefly and might be deemed an unimportant after-thought based on sources that Didymus wanted to include before turning to politics. That might be correct, at least in regard to placement within the epitome, but the topic is not to be ignored as 228unimportant, for it received significant attention in the early Peripatos, in the Platonic Academy and in Greek literature of a still earlier date. 2
