Book inferred all Euripides^?, Medea^ one having

the Book in his hand, anfwer’d another, that asked him what Book it was, It is 0)ryjjppi/s\ Medea.Andi ^oUodorus the Athenian leflion of jDwr//Z(?j-,al]erting, that Epicurus had written many Books upon his own Strength, without uling the Tellimonies of others, and that he therein far exceed Chryfippus^ adds thefe words \ For if a Alan fhould take out of Chryfip- pus’j Writings^ all that belongs to other Men, he would leave the Taper blank.
T O Seneca^vft% this Cenfure of him ‘ {q) He is
*-3* molt Subtile ,and Acute, penetrating into the
depth of Truth. He fpeaks to the thing that is to be done, and ufeth no more words than are -.y neceffary to the underftanding thereof jb'ut adds,
that his fr) Acutenefs being too fine, is many ’A' times blunted, and retorted upon it felf*, even when he feems^orhave done foinething, he only pricks, notpierceth.
(f) Some there are who inveigh againib him, as one that wrote many obfeene Things, not fit to be fpoken,as in his Commentary of the Ancient Thyfiologifls ; what he writes concerning Jupiter and is obfeenely feigned, delivering that ^ in 600 Paragraphs, which the molt impudent Perfon would not have committed to Writing • for, fay they, he hath related the Story mo'ft ‘ iinhandfomely •, and tho’ he prais’d it as natural, yet it bccomethGurteZans rather than Gods.
Moreover, what he faith of thofe that writ of Tables., is falfe, not to be found in Folemo., nor Hipjicrates^ nor Ant igonus^ but forged by himfelfi
^ In his Book of Commonwealth., he allows Mar¬ riage with the Mother and a Daughter, and re¬ peats the fame in the beginning of his Book, Con¬ cerning Things expetible in themf elves.
In his third Book of JuJiice^ extending to a thoufand Paragraphs, he advifed to feed upon the very Dead.
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In his fccond Book of Life andTranfaUionfxo affirmeth, A wife/Man ought to take care to pro¬ vide himfelf Food ^ bitt to what end muft lie provide himfelf Food ? For Livelihood ? Life is an indifferent. For .Pleafure ? Ple^rCpalfo is indifferent. For Virtue ?That is SelfJuffLcient for Beatitude. Such kind's “ojf Acquifition of tV ealti i are very Ridiculous.Ifthey proceed^om:aKing, there isaneceffity of complying with 'fiim; if from a Friend, thaf priendfliip is. Veiaial'I'^if from Wifdom, that Wifddm is luercenaVyf/Fdf thefe things, faith L'asrfius, fom.c haveapyeigh^d againfthim. >- .o-
C H A P. IV.
Idk Death.
He died, 2iCcorT\ng to Apollodorus,mt\\o I43i/ Olymp'aid, fto fupply Laertius., in whom the centenary Number is wanti^g^by Sui- dasj having lived 73 'years. 1 ' ,
The manner of his Death is differently ‘ rela¬ ted • Hermippus atiirms. That being in the OicC- um (akind of publick-Theatre at Athens) his Difciples called him away toSacrificc,and there¬ upon taking a draught of Wine he was imme- (U^ely feized by a Vertigo, of which at the end of five days he died. Others report, he died of exceflive Laughter : Seeing, an Afs eat Kgs^ie bid his Woman ofter it fome Wine,, and'thei^t fell into fuch extremity of Laughter, l^ia^^itf^illed him. J-'
, As to his Perfon, he was very little, faith Li^- ertius, as appeareth, by his Statuein the mick., which is almoft hid by the Horfi? that ftands next it, whence Carneadcs called/ him itfuT'Tr'TOf, hid by a Horfe. The Poilui^ of this Statue, Cicero faith, was Sitting, and ftretching forth his Hand. Taufanius faith. It was fetup in the Gymnafium., called Ttolommn from the Foun¬ der, not far from the Forum. ‘ /
Laertius reckons four more of this ’ Name, The firf, a Phyfician, to whom Erqfifratus acknowledgeth himfelf beholding for many things. . .
The fecond, his Son, Phyfician to Tiolomy., who, upon the Calumnies of fome tharmaligned him, was publickly punilhed and beaten with Rods.
The third, Difciple to Erafiflratus.
ThQ fourth, aWritGr of Georgicks.
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'C i JL.J others,of Sidonffis Father named Diof- but left behind him many Difciples.
corides. He was Difciple to Chryjippus, and his I .
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