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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 592 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CEBES , the name of two See also:

Greek philosophers. (1) CEBES OF Cvzscus, mentioned in See also:Athenaeus (iv. 156 D), seems to have been a Stoic, who lived during the reign of See also:Marcus Aurelius. Some would attribute to him the Tabula Cebetis (see below),but as that See also:work was well known in the See also:time of See also:Lucian, it is probably to be placed earlier. (2) CEBES OF See also:THEBES, a See also:disciple of See also:Socrates and See also:Philolaus. He is one of the speakers in the See also:Phaedo of See also:Plato, in which he is represented as an See also:earnest seeker after virtue and truth, keen in See also:argument and cautious in decision. Three dialogues, the `E(3Soµn, the 4puvtXos and the Ilivat, or Tabula, are attributed to him by Suidas and See also:Diogenes Laertius. The two former are lost, and most scholars deny the authenticity of the Tabula on the ground of material and verbal anachronisms. They attribute it either to Cebes of See also:Cyzicus (above) or to an See also:anonymous author, of the 1st See also:century A.D., who assumed the See also:character of Cebes of Thebes. The work professes to be an See also:interpretation of an allegorical picture in the See also:temple of Cronus at See also:Athens or Thebes. The author develops the Platonic theory of pre-existence, and shows that true See also:education consists not in See also:mere erudition, but rather in the formation of character. The' Tabula has been widely translated both into See also:European See also:languages and into Arabic (the latter version published with the Greek See also:text and Latin See also:translation by See also:Salmasius in 164o).

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Epictetus. See also:Separate See also:editions by C. S. Jerram (with introduction and notes, 1878), C. Prachter (1893), and many others. See See also:Zeller's See also:History of Greek See also:Philosophy; F. Klopfer, De Cebetis Tabula (1818–1822) ; C. Prachter, Cebetis Tabula quanam aetate conscripta esse videatur (1885).

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