Comments on Professor Long's Paper.

The article focuses on the author's comments on scholar Anthony A. Long's paper on Arius Didymus. Long has raised. I shall confine myself to the following points, I find the Stobaean account of Stoic ethics less well organized than scholar Long suggests, but his discussion raises the more important question what sort of organization it has or lacks, in general, it dispenses with Stoic arguments for their views and is not organized on any argumentative plan, this is true of the treatment of normal, particularly by contrast with Cicero's discussion in Definibus 3. Given the difference in organization between the Stobaean account and accounts in Cicero and Diogene Laertius, we should feel little confidence in von Arnim's hypothesis of a common source for parts of all three.