This ancient writer didn't use the Internet to copy and paste liberally, nor did he cheat on a school term paper, but his wholesale "borrowing" was criticized. The Stoic writer Chrysippus was faulted with failure to write much of anything original:
"And Apollodorus, the Athenian, in his Collection of Dogmas, wishing to assert that what Epicurus had written out of his own head, and without any quotations to support his arguments, was a great deal more than all the books of Chrysippus, speaks thus (I give his exact words), 'For if any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.'"See More on the Stoics.
Diogenes Laertes on Chrysippus
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