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===''On Grief''=== The most popular of Crantor's works in Rome seems to have been that "On Grief" ({{langx|la|De Luctu}}, {{langx|el|Περὶ Πένθους}}), which was addressed to his friend Hippocles on the death of his son, and from which [[Cicero]] seems to have heavily relied upon in his ''[[Tusculan Disputations]]''.<ref>Marcus Tullius Cicero and Margaret Graver ''Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4'' 2009 {{ISBN|0226305783}} p188</ref> According to Cicero, the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosopher [[Panaetius]] called it a "golden" work, which deserved to be learnt by heart word for word.<ref>Cicero, Acad, ii. 44.</ref> Cicero also made great use of it while writing his celebrated ''[[Consolatio (Cicero)|Consolatio]]'' on the death of his daughter, [[Tullia (daughter of Cicero)|Tullia]]. Several extracts from it are preserved in [[Pseudo-Plutarch]]'s treatise on Consolation addressed to Apollonius, which has come down to us. Crantor paid special attention to [[ethics]], and arranged "good" things in the following order - virtue, health, pleasure, riches.<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Crantor|volume=7|pages=378–379}}</ref>
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