Part VI.

Of Greater and Leffer i.
Of Mufick I. *
Of the Divine Beatitude i.
Tlo thofe of the Academy i .
Yrotreptick i.
Mow a City may be beji Inhabited Commentaries i.
Of the Fiery Fbidlition /V/ Sicily Of things granted i.
Of the ways of knowing i.
Of the Lying Argument 3 .
Ante -Topic k i.
To JEfchilus I.
Aftrological Hijiory 6.
Arithmetical Hijiories of Increafe i. Acicharus i.
Of Judicial Orations i.
EpiJIles concerning Aftycreon to Phanias Nicanor.
Of Piety u
Euias I.
Of opportunities 2.
Of Jeaf enable difeourfes r.
Of the Injiitution of Children Another^ different i.
Of Inflitution^ or of Virtues^ or of Tem¬ perance I.
Protreptick i.
Of umbers i.
Definitions of Syllogi flick fpeech i.
Of Heaven i.
Politick 2.
Of Nature 2.
Of Fruits and Animals, All which, faith' Laertius^ 'dmount to 1 182 Divifions t Thefe Books, as Theophraflus had or¬ dered in his Will, were delivered to Neleus. What afterwards became of them, hath been related in the Life of Ai'iflotle.
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STrato a- was Succefibr to Theophraflus- He was of b Lampfacum., his Father c Arcefildus^ or, as fome, d Ajxefius.^ mentioned in his Will, e He was a Per- fpn of great worth , Eminent^ faith Laertius^ in all kinds of Phi lofophy^ but ejpecially^ in, that which is called Phy fief the ntofi ancient and fo- lid part^ f wherein be introduced many things new, g diflenting not only from Plato.^ but from his Mafter Arifiotle. h From his excellency herein he tyas called the Natural Philofopher : i He preferibed all Divine Power to Nature. k Ethick he touched but little. I He took up¬ on him the government of the School, accord¬ ing to in the [third year of the 123 Olympiad] and continued therein eighteen years. Heinftru£l:ed Ptolomy the Son of Phila- delphusy^ho beftowed eighty Talents upon him.
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His Will andDeath. ■ '
His Will, faith Laertius^ was to this EffeSl.
Thus I order., againfi the time that 1 fhall die. All thefe things which are in my Houfe., I bequeath to Lampyrian and Arcefila’us. Out of the Aloney which I have at Athens, let my Executors firfl deft-ay the Charges of rrty Eune- ral., arid the Solemn Rites after my Entermentfio- ^ nothing fuperfiuouflyfnov Niggardly. The
Executors of thefe things I appoint in my Wilt to be thefe-., Olympicus, Ariftides, Mnefigenes, Hippocrates , Epicrates , Gorgylus , Dio¬ des, Lyco , Athanes. i leave the School h Lyco, for the reft are either too old, or otherwife employed. All the reft fhall do well if they con¬ firm this Choice that 1 hdioe' made. 1 bequeath likewife all my Books unto him, except thofe xvhich are written by our own hand, befides all Utenfils, Carpets and Cups for Feafiing. Let the Executors give 500. Drachmes to Epicrates and one of the fervants, wbifh Arcefilaus fhall think goood. Let Lampyrion and Arcefilaus difeharge all the debts, which Daippus under¬ took for Hirrtus. Let nothing be owing either to Lampyrion, or to' the Heirs of Lampyrion, but let him be difeharge d of all, and the Executors befiow on him 500. Drachmes, and one of the Servants, as Arcefilaus fhall think good -., that having taken much pains w 'lth us, he may have fuffic'ient for Food, and Payment. J ma¬ numit Diophantus, and Diodes, and Abus. J give 5immias to Arcefilaus . I manumit Dro- mo. When Arcefilaus fhall come, let Hiratus with. Olympicus and Epicrates, and the refl of the Executors cafi up the Accounts of the Char¬ ges of my Funeral and other things whatfoever is over and above-, let Arcefilaus tak^ it of O- lympicus, not prejjing him upon the day of pay¬ ment. Let Arcefilaus difeharge the .Covenants which Strato made ivith Olympicus, and Amini- as, which are in the hands of rhilocrates Son of ^Tifamenus. As for my Tomb, let it be ordered. Mm 09
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as Arcefilaus and Olympicus, and Lyto Jhall think good»
- This was his Will^ preferved by Ari^o the Chian. He was of fd thin and low a conffituion,' that he felt not any pain at his death. •
Of his Name 'Laertius reckons eight.
The Jirft, a Difciple of If aerates.
The fecond^ this Philofopher.
The rh/Wa Phyfician, Difciple of Erefiflra- tus.
The fourth an Hiftorian,^ who wrote the Wars of Phi/ip and Perjeus with the Romans. '
ThQ fifth is wanting.
The an Epigrammatick Poet.
The feventh., an ancient Phyfician.
The eighth.^ a Peripatetick, who lived at A- lexadria.
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faith, he wrote many Books: Laertv ► us gives this Catalogue of them.
Of a Kingdotn 3, Of fujiice 3. Of God 3- Of Good 3.
Of Principles 3. Of Lives.
Of Felicity.
Of Ph 'ilofophy.
Of Fortitude.
Of Vacuum.
Of Heaven.
Of Breath.
* Of Humane Nature.
Of the Generation of Animals.
Of Mixtions.
Of Sleep.
Of Dreams.
Of Sight.
Of Senfe. ■ ’ ,
Of Pleafure.
Of Colour.
Of Difeafes.
Of Judgments.
Of Faculties.
Of Metalliek Machines.
Of Hungeir and Offuf cation.
Of Light and Heavie.
Of Divine Infpirat 'ion.
Of Time.
Of Alimeni and Augmentation.
Of uncertain Animals.
Of Fabulous Animals.
Of Caufes.
. Solutions of ^efiions.
Proems of Places.
Of Accident.
Of More or Lefs.
Of Unjufl.
Of Priority and Pofieriority.
Of Priority of Genus. '
Of Proprinm.
Of Future.
Confutations of Inventions. Commentrries., which are fufpeCted. Epijiles i beginning thus. Strata to Ar- Jinoe, Health.
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TR AT 0, faith Laertius^w^s Succeed¬ ed by Lyco^ Son of Aflyanax of iTroas.^ an Eloquent Perfon, and excellent for EducBtion of Children. He heard alfo Panthtedus the Dialedlick.
He laid, that as Horfes need both Bridle and Spur, fo in Children there muft be ioyned both Modefty and Ambition. Of his florid exprel- fion is alledged thisinftance. Of a poor Maid he faid, BafOyitg
cdl^ix^i/aa, tov aKfMloy ths vhtKtAS. A Maid is a heavie Burden to her Parents when Jhe outruns the fiowry feafon of her youth for want of a dower. Whence Ant 'igonus faid of him,- That as the fra- grancy and ^calantnels of an excellent Apple will not admit Tranfplantation, fo whatfoever he^ faid was to be heard only from himfelf. For this fweetnefs of Difeourfe fome added the let-
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ter y ’to his name, calling him tawxw, which implieth fweetnefs: fo ^ Plutarch. '
n Stile he was very different from himfelf.
' Upon thole who were forty they had not learned when time was, and wilhed it might be recalled, he jefted thus he faid, that they who endeavoured to make amends by a late penitence for their paftnegligence, were confeious of the impoffibility of their wilhes. And of thole that fought to bring it to pafs, he faid, they had loft all Reafon, in applying the nature of a ftrait Line to a crooked Ruler, or beholding their Face in troubled Water, or a cohfuled Mirror.
He faid, that to the wreath of publick Games in the Forum many afpired, to the Olympick, few or none.
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