Zeno gave abusive language not only to those who were then living, as Apollodorus, Syllus, and the rest, but he called Socrates, who was the father of philosophy, the Attic buffoon, using the Latin word _Scurra_.

He never called Chrysippus by any name but Chesippus.
And you yourself a little before, when you were numbering up a senate, as we may call them, of philosophers, scrupled not to say that the most eminent men talked like foolish, visionary dotards.

Certainly, therefore, if they have all erred in regard to the nature of the Gods, it is to be feared there are no such beings.

What you deliver on that head are all whimsical notions, and not worthy the consideration even of old women.

For you do not seem to be in the least aware what a task you draw on yourselves, if you should prevail on us to grant that the same form is common to Gods and men.