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A scholar of classical Greek language and literature throughout his life, Hobbes made translations of Thucydides in his thirties and Homer in his eighties (EW VIII; EW X). He mentions the “Stoa” as a major school of Athens in Leviathan XLVI (2012, 1056; 1651, 521) and endorses various insights of Cicero in Leviathan V (2012, 68; 1651, 31)¹ though he demurs from the Stoic thesis that all crimes are equal in Leviathan XXVII (2012, 466; 1651, 231). The famous Stoic doctrine of fate (heimarmene) is referenced in the Latin edition of Leviathan (Leviathan, Appendix I; 2012, 1152; OL III. 517). Of course, Stoicism was widely popular in the intellectual culture of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe (see Barker and Goldstein 1984; Brooke 2012; Lagrée 1994; Long 2003).² So whence the particular influence on Hobbes’s natural philosophy?