Quotes:Prodicus of Ceos

Zirkoff, Boris

Prodicus of Ceos (born about 465 or 450 b.c., and still alive in 399 b.c.). Greek humanist of the first period of the Sophistical 663 movement. Came to Athens as ambassador from Ceos, and became known as speaker and teacher. He advocated high ethics and the remedy of work. Of his treatises, On Nature, and On the Nature of Man, we know only the titles. He exercised a far reaching influence and is mentioned with esteem by Plato.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, pp. 662-663