Part VIIL

ZENO..
He took away and affirming I '}:\\s\Nntn^^4Ui:%Cf E’xcr(H'trj-iM^fi^
that one is above us, the other appertains no^ -AntU thing to us: Ethick only appertains- to us ^ \\Q}jphW()f2., AEe AUji'^Ey'^llye^rep'aEkrivS^- • compared DialeSifek Reafon to Cobwebs, which i Hermes, Medoa^- Di^loguesyMoyalThQ^i's.
tho they feem artificial, yet are of- no ufe. ' • • His Difciples were &'ilde4 i/m7k/i?xViiaTtie(i'by
He introduced not on any Virtues, as Zeno €100*0 as'a particu‘lar-6g&-^mog the Socntic'k'sN nor one called byfevetal names, as the Megorkk \'^‘ ' hjonyfws^ Sen'ofP/)^’(y>/Aw//^r, anH Philolbphers, but affirmed they have a Quodam- ^ frpirt the change .bf^^ills^-Opinion^ fim raodotative Relation to one another. ■ <>'u.'^ahkiJ.i^®r,yEhgA^raao)\ He^vyas rrdhi'‘'the
Profefling thefoTenets, andjdifputing in bcjginning ftudioufly addifted to'Lbariting, at)d
fargcs^ he came to be called Author of a Se£l:-,‘ wril!'Poefris'6lnMl ■kinds r, thenibetliok himlelf whence iMilciades and Diphilus were called AlW- 'td €i'rat'iis^ beW^ miicl^ipieafed ■wlth-bim. Of' fionians. ' >i Rhilofophers'fistirtt h^rd;- as Pi^ij^’t^tiffirn'i'?,
■He was very perfwafive, and wroughttnuch his' ©QUntry-'fri^fl , then A/rjf/>;VTbh'd
upon the common .-people, whence in^ EAleneiemus., SiilcPlu'i^ Zeno: - wd yr ■
Sil/k. - j -?' Revoking from addifife’d^himftlf'f 5
One of Ando’s fmooih perfwafive Race. _ .
He. defended eagerly this Paradox af the Sto- icks.^ 'That a wife man doth not Opinionate.^ but Know *, viEichFerfeus oppofing, caufed of’tvvo.; like Twins, fiilt, one to give a depofitum to him, then the other to come and re-demand it^ and by his doubting, if it were the fame perlbn, convinced him. ■ ■ '
inveigh’d againft Arcefilaus calli ng him a corrupter of Youth.] On a time, feeing a: Monker like a Bull, but of both Sexes, he iaidl, Alas! here is an Argument for ArcefilauS again f Energy. To an Academick w'ho faid, he com¬ prehended nothing, (do you not fee (faith he] him who fitteth next. you ^ which he denying.
Who Jiruck you blind faith hCp or took your light away ?
He wrote thefe Treatifes, Rrotrepticks 2. Of ZjtXiop s EoUrine -. Scholafick Dialogues 6. Of Wifdom Dijfertations 7. Erotick Differ tat ions : Commentaries uponVainglory. Commentaries 15. Alemorials 3. Chriots 1 1. Againft Orators : .A.- gainji Alexinus hk Oppoftions 5 To khe Diale- Hicks 3. To Cleanthes Epijt. 4. But Tancetius and Sof crates affirm the Epijtles only to be his, the reif: to be Arifd’s the Peripatetick.
The Sun ftriking hot upon his. head (which was bald) occafioned his death. Thefe was ano¬ ther of the fame name, a Juliite, a Peripate¬ tick', another an Athenian, aMufician, a Tra- gick poet ^ a fifth, an Alaan, who writ the Rhe¬ torical Art-^ a fixth of Alexandria.^ a Peripate¬ tick.
LatH. Erillus.^ (or as Cicero., Herillus) was a Cari
thagenian-, when he was a Boy, he was Loved and Courted by many ; which Zeno, by caufing him to be fhaved, diverted.
He held, .That the end is Science, which is to live fo, as to rpfer all things to Science, joyned with Life. That Science is a habit fufeeptive of phantafies, falling under Reafon.
Yet, fometimes he faid, there is no end ^ but, that the end it felf is changed by the things, and thole which are joyned to the things,as Brals, of which the Statues of Alexander and Socrates is made.
JhafrUof the end, and viroiknif differ, one is objeQed to unwife perfons as well as wile, the other to wife only.
Thofe things which are betwixt Virtue and Vice, are indifferents.
His Books are written in a fhort Stile, confift- ing of few words, but very efficacious, wherein is contained what he held contrary to Zeno,
the Cyrenaans •, he went tO'-Gorhhfton hbiift and addicted himfjf to other Pica lures.
~~ He aflerted_f|ie(H]d tobePleafure^ jind that |tjy reafon of his own pur-blindnels ^ for being much grieved thereat, he durlHiot affirm Grief to be one of the indifferents. ,
■He died eighty years cid, ka'lved.j- .
Liis Writings are tl;us intituled, Of Apathy 2. '
Of Riches and Pavour, and Punifhment -, Oj the life of Men •, Of good tortune-, -Of theACings the A neients Of i Wings^hat are praife^ Of fie Cufomsbf the BsArdUdns.
Spharus was oP . Bofphorus he-firft heard Zeno.^ then Cleanihei^gayif. having made a fuffi- cient progrefs in LeaViiiiig, vvent to Alexandria to Ptolomy P/VZjywfr/', where there' ariling a di- Ipute, Whether arWife .Man doth Opinionate, and maintaining that he doth not, the
King commanded fome Quinces, faith
Birds, of WGx to be fet before him, where with Sphients being cozened, the King cried out, that he affented to a falfephantafie ; Sph^rvs prelent- ly anlwered. That he'ajjented notibat they ivere Quinces, but that it was probable they were Oun¬ ces •, but comprehenfive Phantafe differs from probable , ^ for that is never fafe, but in proba- ^ htbeiu ble matters fometimes a thing falls out ciherwife than we imagined, t Menefiftratus acciiling him f Laen, that he denied Ptolomy to be King,, he anfwered, . that he thought Ptolomy, or fuch a pne.wos King.
His Writings are thefe : Of the World, of the Seed of Elements, of portune, of Beafs, againfl Atoms and Apparitions, of the Organs of Senje, upon Fleraclitus’x Abt’ difertations -, of Moral di- fcription, of Office, of Appetite, of Pajfions 2. Diffcrtations of a Kingdom -, of the Tacedemonian Commonwealth, of Lycurgus Socrates 3. 0/
Law, of Divination,' Erotick, Dialogues, of the E- retriack Yhilofophers, of things like, of Defniti- ons,of Habit, of Contraries 3. Of Reafon, of Riches, ofGloiy, of Death,of the Art of D tale dick 2. Of Categorems, of Ambiguities, of Epi flics..
Cleanthes, whom Zend compared to writing- tables, that are fo haid, they will net eafily aff mit an imprelffon, but having once received ir, keep it long. He fucceeded Zeno, of him there¬ fore apart.
Philon, a Theban.
Callippus, a Corinthian.
Poffidonius, an Alexandrian.
Athenodorus of Soli-, there were twm mbre of the fame name, Scoicks. •
Zeno, a Sidonian.
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