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LC M tyE O N was of Crotona ; he alfo heard Pythagoras- He was chiefly addided to Medicine, but ftudied Phifiology alfo , faying , There are many caufes of humane things. Vhavorinm thinks him the firft that wrote a Phyfical Dif fertation. ' He aflerted, that the Moon hath an eternal nature. He wasfon of Perithtts^ as ap peareth by the beginning of his Book ; Alc- ra^on a Crotonian, fon of Perithus, faith thm to Brontinus, WLeon, ^j^iBathyllus, of invijihlt and immortal things, the gods haw .a certain know- ledgt, men, conjecture, &C. Pie afferted the foul to" be immortal, and that it moveth perpetually like the Sun.
He aiferted, that the Planets hold an oppo- fite courfe to the Fixed Stars, from Weft to Eaft.
We hear by the hollow of the Ear; that re- foundeth when the wind entereth into it, be* caufe all empty things make a founds
By moifture and warmth in the Tongue, to¬ gether with the foftnefs thereof, all objeds of tafte are diftinguiflred.
Reafon, the principal part of the foul, is
within the Brain, and that by it we fmell, draw¬ ing in fcents and fmells by refpirations.
Why Mules are barren , fee Plut. f.ac. fbil. lih. cap. 14.
The Infant in the Womb feeds by the whole pjut.^. body ; for it fucketh and draweth to it, like a fpunge, of all the food, that which is good for nouriftiment.
The head is firft made, as being the feat of pi^t.s. reafon.
Sleep is made by the return of blood into the piut-s. confluent veins: Waking, is the diffufion of the faid blood ; Death, the utter departure thereof.
The equal diftribution of the faculties of the y body, moifture, heat, drinefs, cold, bitter, fweet, and the reft, is that which maintaineth health ; the predominance of any of them cau- feth ficknels, for the predominance of one is the corruption of all the other, and is the caufe of indifpofition ; the efficient, in rcfpetft of excef- five heat pr cold ; the material in refpedt of a- bundanc6, or defed of humours ; as in (bme there is want of blood or brain ; whereas health is a proportionable contemperation of all thefe qualities.
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' IPP A SU S was a Metapontine,ror as fome affirm a Sybante ) a Pphago- rean alfo, * Jamblichm faith he was drown’d in the Sea, a juft reward for his impiety, for that he had publiftit the Do- dr-ine of Pythagoras.
He afferted that fire is the principle of all things, of which all things are made, a’nd into which all things refolve. All things are made by extindion of this fire : firft, the groffer part of it, being contraded,becometh Eal th,then the Earth being loofened by the nature of the fire, be¬ comes water; the water exhaled becomes air.
Again,the World and all Bodies ftiall be diffolved in a conflagration ; fire therefore is the princi¬ ple, for all things were made of it ; and the end, becaufs all things are refolved into it.
Likewife he held that there is a determinate time of the mutation of the World, and that the Univerfe is bounded, and always moved.
Demetrim faith, he left nothing extant in Writing. ^
Thqre was another of this name, a Lacede¬ monian,' who wrote five Books of the Lacedemo¬ nian Commonwealth.
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PHILO LAUS was of Crotona, a Pytha¬ gorean : of him it was that Plato wrote to Dion, to purchafe fome Pythagorean Books; he was put to death upon fufpicion, that he aimed at the Tyranny,
* He afferted, that all things are made by Ns- ceffity and Harmony ; and was the firft that faid the Earth moveth circularly ; which fome af- cribe to Hicetm of Syracufe.
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He wrote one Book, \v\-\\q\-\ flermif^us (citing ! Tome ocher Author ) afhrms that Viato when he
went to Sictly to Dionyjtas, purchafed of the Kinf- men of Vhilolam, paying for it forty Alexandrian I / Mina;, and out of it took his Ttmam. Others j| fay that Dtonyfim gave it him , having taken it
!: from a young man, Difciple to Fbilolam, wliom
I he freed out of Prifon.
! Demetrtm faith, that Fhtlolaus firB publiHied
a Tythagorick Difcourfe concerning Nature, be- j ginning thus, Nature , and the whole world, and
all things in it, are aptly connehled of Infinites and Einites.
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f AlTociations were expelled the Cities, thofe who
I kept ftill together, being aflembled in a houfe at
i Metapontutn, thQ* Cylonians iet thQ houk on Urc,
here, and and burnt them all except Philolaus and Lyfis, j afterward, who being young men, Prong and adive, ef- ! caped through the fire. 'Philolaus fled to the L«-
canians, where fome other friends came to him,
who gathering Miemfelves together, over-ma- Perd the Cylonians. But of this formerly, in the Life of Pythagoras.
He affirmed, chat there is a twofold corrup¬ tion : one while by fire falling from Heaven : another, by water out of the Moon, poured forth by the circumgyration of tire Air ; die ex¬ halations whereof become thefood of the World.
The fubftance of the Sun is, as it were of s-^o. glafs, receiving the reverberation of all the fiie in the world, and tranfmitting theligHt thereof to us,^ as it w'ere through a flrainer, as that fiery light in Heaven refembleth the Sun then that which proceedeth from it, is in form of a mir- rour ; and thirdly, there is a fplendor, which by way of reflexion from that mirrour, is fpread upon us; and this we call the Sun, as it were the Image of an Image.
The earth moveth round about the fire in an Pkt. 3. 13. oblique Circle, as the Sun and Moon do.
* Utrt. U DO XU S was of Gnidus, foni of
chines: he was an Aftrologer, Geome- J trlcian, Phvfician, and Lawgiver : He learnt Geometry of Arthytas; Medicine of' ThiltfiiOy thQ Siciltasi, z'r. Caliimachm
Sotion faith, he heard Plato alfo : for being 25 years old, and in a very mean condition, he v/as invited by the fame of the Socratick Philo- I fbphers to goto Athens, with Theowedon & VhyP\-
! clan that maintained, and much aflfedted him.
He lived in the Pyraum, and went up every day to Athens, where he heard the Sophifts, and return’d. Thus he lived two Months, and then ij _went home; where his friends making a col-
' ledion of money for him, he travelled to ^gypt
I ' with a Phyfician, carrying along with
him Letters of reccommendation frpm Agefilam
• to NeStahss , who recommended him to the
' . PriePs. There he lived a year and four months,
I Piaving his Eye-brows; and wrote, as fome
i think, his HiPory of eight years. Thence he
I went to CyrJcus, and to Propontis, teaching Phi-
lofophy ; and to Maufolus. At lap, having got- j ten together many Difciples , he return ’d_ to
1 Athens, to vex Plato, as fome conceive, for having
i; formerly rejecPed him. Some fay, that Plato
j making a FeaP, he taught him the way of pla¬
cing his GuePs in the figure of a Semicircle. i| Nicomachus, fon of Ariflntle, faith, lie aflferted
I pleafure to be the chief good,
i He was much honoured in his own Country,
as appears by the Decree made concerning him. li He was very eminent alfo among the Greeks, for
ij ' he^ave Laws to fome Cities, and taught them
(as Hermippus affirms) APrology and Geometry ; j; and many other excellent things.
I He had three Daughters, yitlis, P hilt Is, and
Delphi!. Eraiofihenes affirms, hQwrotQKvyavJ'/a-
i .but others, that the Egyptians wrote ' th|nr in their own |Language, and that Arifiox- ems tranflated thern into Greek.
From him Chryfippm the Gnidian, Ion of Eri- received all that he wrote concerning the Gods, and the World, and Meteors.
He left many excellent Writings. .
He had a fon,' jirfiagoras, father toChryfippus, the Difciple of Aethlius.
He fiouridied in the 105 Olympiad, died 5-3 years old When he lived me./£gypt with Ichonuphits, a Hclt^olit ane , an Ox licked his Gar¬ ment ; wbereup ffiould be very H'eminent, but not long-liv’d.
Thus Laertius.
If therefore he lived about the 103 Olympiad, and in the twenty third year of his age heard Plato, Eufebius feems to be miPaken, who affirms, he Pouriflied in the beginning of the 97 Olym¬ piad, which was feven years after the death of Socrates, at what time EWcaw could not have at¬ tained any eminence, if he were Difciple to Plato, as Cicero alfo affirms he was; Strabo, that he went with Plate into zyEgjpfy Suidas, that. he was Contemporary with liim.
Of his Writings are mentioned OPtaeteres\ fee Cenforinus, de Die Natali, Cap. 18.
cited by Athenaus and others; perhaps the fame Strabo caWs Tiiv meji Ay ’’Evdi^oy it confiPed of many Books, the Seventh cited by Stephanus and Porphyrias.
Phanomena ; mentioned by the Anonymous Writer of the Life of Arams.
There were others of this Name ; ( a) one of a laert. Rhodes, alliPorian; another of SW/, a Comick Poet; another of aPhyfician; (/’jano- ^ Sfrabo.
ther of Cyztcus.. Hitherto of the Pythagorean Pbilofophers.
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