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By c. 350, the number of Phoenician expatriates living in Athens had increased so much that Xenophon could plausibly represent them as a distinct multilingual and acculturated community (Ways and Means , 2.3–6). A situation which is also attested in the Athenian decrees honouring a group of Sidonian merchants in 367 (IG II–III 2 141) and a group of Kition merchants in 333 ( IG II–III 2 337). This community included simple brokers like Pythod o ros who was active in Athens in around 394 (Isocrates, 17.4), great money lenders such as Therod̅oros (Demosthenes, 34.6), and renowned personalities like Zeno of Kition who founded the Stoic school of philosophy in 301 (Diogenes Laertius, Xeno, 16; 38).