Part VIII.

d Laert.
e Lmt. f Skid, g Laert.
written in hisSoth year) d in all which time he was never molefted by any Sicknefs ^ died upon this occafion ^ Going out ot the School, he fell and broke his Finger , whereupon ftrik- ing the Ground with his Hand, he laid, as Niobe in the Tragedy, I come.^ why do you call m ? Or as others, Why do you drive me ? And go¬ ing out, e fome fay, he immediately ftrangled himfelf-, / others, that by little and little he familh’d hii?ifelf.
g When the news of his Death came to An- tigonus.^ he broke forth into thele W ords. What a fpeblacle have 1 lofi! and being denaanded why he fo much admired him, Becauje^faid he.jhd I bejhvoed many great things upon km., he was ne¬ ver therewith exalted or dejeiied. He lent imme¬ diately Thrajb on Embaflie to the Alhenians.^m quefting that they would build him a Topab in iheCeramick, which the Athenians ^Qxformed., honouring him with this Decree.
A DECREE-
ARrhenides being Archon, the Tribe of Aca- mantis having the firji place in the Phry- tanxum, the tenth day of Maimabtefwn, the three and izoentieth of the Jit ling of thi Phrytanaum, the Congregation of Prefidents decreed thus : Hippo 6^// reji of the Pref dents., Thralb Son oj Thrafo, an Anacdtan, declared ;
WhereoL Zeno Son of Mnafeas, a Cittiean, hath profe fed Philofophy many Tears in this City, and in all Qther things performed the Office oj a good Alan, encouraging thofe young Aden, who applied the mf elves to him, to Vertue and Tem¬ perance, leading himfelf a Life fuitable to the Dotlrine which he profejfed, a Pattern to thebe]} to imitate -, The People have tJoought fit {good Fortune go along with it ) to do Honour to Zeno Son with a Crozvn of Gold according to the Law, in reward of bis Vertue and 'Temperance, and to build a Tomb for him public kly in the Ceramick. For, the making of which Crown, and building cj the Tomb, the People fioall make choice oj five Alen of the Athenians to take charge thereof This Decree the Scribe of the People (hall write upon two Pillars, one whereof fioall be placed in the Academy, the other in the Lyceum. The charge of the Pillars, he who is Overfee-r of the Publick Works fhall undertake to dejray, by way of Rate, that all may know, the Athenian People honour good Men both alive and dead. To take care of the bidding are appointed, Thrafo an Anacaan Philocles, a Pyrean Phaedrus , an Anaphiflian-, Medon, an Acarnean M icy thus a Sympalletean.
The Athenians caufed likewife his Statue in Brafs to be fet up, as did alfo the Cittieans his Countrymen. Antipater ihQ Sidonian be¬ llowed this Epitaph upon him.
Here Zeno lies, who tall Olympus fcaVd,
Not heaping Pelion on OlTa’s head.
Nor by Herculean Labours fo prevaiPd,
But found out Vertue" s Path which thither led-
Another Epigram’ was written upon him by Xenodotm the Stoick, Difciple of 'Diogenes,
Zeno thy Tears to hoary Age were /pent.
Not with vain Riches, but zviPn fe/J-content : A jlout and conjiant Sefi derived jrom thee The Alother of nought -dreading Liberty : Phct\{\CLdL,ttihence thou ifuedfi, who can f ight ? Thence Cadmus too, who firli taught Greece to write.
CHAP. VIE His P erf on and Vertues.
S concerning his PtWon, a Timotheus faith, a Laort, he w'as wry -neck’d '. Apollonius Tyrius, that he was lean, tall, and of a fwarthy complexion, whence fliled by Icme (as Chryfippus) the Egyp¬ tian fprig. b His look was fad, grave, fevere and b Laert, frowning^ his Conftitution not ilrong,for which reafon faith, he forbore to teaft much.
His ordinary Diet -confifted in raw food, efpecial-. ly Figs, both raw and dried, bread and honey, which he eat moderately, and a little fweet • Wine. ^
His Continence was fuch, that when Perfeus, who cohabited with him, brought a She-Min- llrel to him, he immediately lent her back. .
Notwithllanding his Severity, he was very Laert, complaifanr, and often feafted with King Anti, gonus, and meeting him fometimes drunk, went along with him to Ariftocles the Mufician, to nightly Banquets and Plays.
Popular Ollentation he avoided, by fitting in Laert. the loweft place, whereby he freed himfelf from the troublelbme importunity of the other part.
He never walked with more than two or three Laert. at once; Cleanthes faith, he many times gave Money to People that they would not trouble him and throng about him. Being on a cer¬ tain time encompaffed by a great Croud, he fhewed them a wooden Ball on the top of the Cloy Her, which formerly belonged to an Altar:
This, faith he, was once placed in the middle j but, becaufe it is troublefome, it is noyv laid a- fide;l defire you would in like manner withdraw your felves, that you may be lefs troublefome.
He was fo free from being corrupted by Gifts, that Democharis Son of Laches, defiring him to let him know what bulinefs he would have to Antigonus,-^xomTm^ to write about it, and affuring him, that Antigonus would furnifh him with whatlbever he defired ^ he turned a- way from him, and would never after con- verfewith him.
He was fo humble, that he converfed with Laert. mean and ragged Perfons j whence Timon,
And for Companions gets of Servants fore.
Of all Alen the moj} empty, and mo ft poor.
He v;as molt patient and frugal in his houf hold-Expences, fbmething inclining to the Ibf didnefs of the Barbarians. Laertius mentions one Servant that he had ^ Seneca avers he had none. - ‘
Whenfoever he reprehended any, it co¬ vertly and afar oft, as may appear by many of his Apophthegms. , . ,
His Habit was mean, whence it wa§ of
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Him nor the Winters rigid Froji or Rain.,
The/corching Sun., orJharpDifeqfecanpain:
Not like the common fort of People he ^
But^ Day and Night bent on Philofophy.
The Comick Poets unwittingly, intending to difcommend him, praife him, as Philemon., in his Comedy of Philofophers,
He Water drinks fhen Broth and Herbs doth eat., To Live., his Scholars teaching., without Meat.
This fome afcribe to Po/Jidippus.
His Vertues were fo Eminent that they grew at laft into a Proverb, More Continent than Zeno the Philofopher j whence PoJJidippus.,
- He ere ten days were /pent,
Zeno in Continence out-went.
Indeed he excelled all men in this kind of Vertue, and in Gravity, and, by Jove (addeth Laertius) in Felicity likewile.
Laert. de aUx. Or at.
* Laert.
That no Temples, Courts of Judicature, nor public k Schools fhould be built in a Commonwealth.
That Money is not neceffary, neither for Ex-, change nor Trajjick.
That Women fhould go in the fame Habit cteMcn.
A va ,
. CHAP. VIII. "
His Writings.
He wrote many Books, wherein ( faith La ertius ) he fb difcourfed, as no Stoick af ter him : Their Titles are thefe :
Of Common-wealth, written whilfl he was an Auditor of Crates, and (as ^ Plutarch faith) much applauded •, the Scope whereof was this. That we floould not live in feveral Cities and Towns by difinU Laws •, but, that we fhould own all Men as our Countrymen and Fellow-Citizens', that there flmdd be one manner of Life, and one Order, as one Flock vohich grazeih by e^ual right in onePafiure.
Of Appetite-, or, of humane Nature.
Of PaJJions.
Of Office.
Of Law.
Of the DifcipUne of the Grecians.
Of Sight.
Of the Univerfe. df Signs.
Pythagoricks,
TJniverfalst OfWords.
Horn erica! Problems 5.
Of hearing Poetry.
The Art.
Solutions.
Confutations.
Alemorials.
The Alorals of Crates.
r ^ Some, amongft whom is Caff us a Sceptian, reprehended many things in the Writings of Ze no : Firft, that in the beginning of his Common wealth,he affirmeth. The Liberal Sciences to be of no ufe.
Again,That all wickedMen are Enemies among themf elves, and Slaves and Strangers, as well Fa¬ thers to theirChildren,as Brethren to Brethren. A- gain,That only good men ate Citizens, and Friends, and Kindred, and' Children, as he affirmeth in his Book of the Commonwealth. So that ac¬ cording to the Stoicks, Parents fhould be Ene- fnies to their Children, becaufe they are not wife.
That in his Commonwealth he would have Women to be in common.
CHAP. IX.
His Difciples.
ZENO (faith Laertius) had many Difciplss 5, the moft eminent thefe ;
PERSEUS Son of Demetrius, a Cittiean fome affisip he was Zen6’% Scholar, others that Laat, he was one of the Servants which were lent by Antigonus to Zeno to tranfcribe his Writings ^ , whence feeing this Infeription on his Sta¬ tue,?/' jR5^US OF ZENO A CITTIEAN m, ^ Atkr..
The Graver mifook, for inflead of 0 KnFwf> he ffionld have put o/>«T7/2uf, a Servant.
Afterwards he returnetl to Antigonus King of Macedonia-, Antigonus to make a Tryal of him, caufed a falfe Report to be brought him, that his Lands were fpoiled by the Enemy i whereat appearing troubled. Do you not fee, fPith Anti- gonus,that Riches are not to be reckoned among ft indifferent things ?
Antigonus fo much favour’d him, that h? pre¬ ferred him to the Government of Acrocorihhus-, on which Fort depended not only Corinth, but all Peloponnefus -, in this charge he was unfor¬ tunate ; for tire Caftle was taken by the cunning of Aratus a Sicyonian Athen^eus faith, whilft P erf am wasfeafling^ who turned out Perfaus,* whereupon afterwards to one that maintained only a wife Man is a Governour and /, faith he, was one of the fame Mind, beingfo taught by Ze¬ no,//// now am of another Opinion -, The Sicyo¬ nian young Alan (meaning Aratm) hath taught me otherwife -, Thus Plutarch -, But Paujanias faith that Aratus upon taking of the Fort, a- mongft others put Perfaus the Governour to Death.
He faid. That thefe were efeenUd Gods who - had invented fome things very if eful to humane Life.
He wrote thefe Books 5 Of a Kingdon -, the Lacedemonian Commomsoealth -, Of Marriage-, Of Impiety -, Thyeftes 5 Of Love, Protrepticks, Ex~ ercitations -, Chrya’s 4. Commentaries, againfl Plato’j Laws 7. ^ Sympofiack Dialogues.
ARISTO Son of MiHades, a Chian , Sir-, , named the Siren -, when Zeno fell into a long Sicknefs, he left him, and went (as Diodes faith) to Pol 07710 ; He wasalfb a follower of Perfaus, whom he Battered much, becaufe of his favour with Antigonus -, for he was much given to Pleafiire, even unto his End. Thus revolting from his Mafter Zeno, he afferted.
That the end confifts in thofe mean things which are betwixt Vertue and Vice j that is, in ’ indifference i not" to be moved on either fide, nor to imagine the leaf! difference to be in thefe things, but that they are all alike : For a wife Man is like a good'Player,who whether he per- fonate Agamemnon or Therfides, will add either