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When Zeno the philosopher1
was suffering the agonies of the torture because of the conspiracy he had entered into against
the tyrant Nearchus and was being asked by Nearchus who his fellow conspirators were, he
replied, "Would that I were as much the master of my body as I am of my tongue!"Const. Exc. 4, pp. 296-297.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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