Vitae philosophorum

Nine dialogues of his are extant written in frigid style, Moschus, Aristippus or Callias, Ptolemy, Chaerecrates, Metrocles, Anaximenes, Epigenes, To his Daughter, Aristotle. Heraclides relates that Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school, was one of Stilpo’s pupils[*](Compare the anecdote in vii. 24 from Apollonius of Tyre.); Hermippus that Stilpo died at a great age after taking wine to hasten his end.

I have written an epitaph on him also[*](Anth Plan. v. 42.):

Surely you know Stilpo the Megarian; old age and then disease laid him low, a formidable pair. But he found in wine a charioteer too strong for that evil team; he quaffed it eagerly and was borne along.

He was also ridiculed by Sophilus the Comic poet in his drama The Wedding[*](Meineke, C.G.F. iv. 386, s.v. Diphilus.):

What Charinus says is just Stilpo’s stoppers.