The history of philosophy: containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect. Illustrated with the effigies of divers of them

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Chapter 233

Part Xl.

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HISTORY
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of PHILOSPOHY.
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His Country, Parents, Brethren, Tme,
DUmcritus ( a) is by fome fuppofed to have been a Mtlefian ; but the more general Opi¬ nion is^ that he was of a Town of
Thrace, noted for the (c) fimplidty of the Inha- c cic. bitants, which grew even to a Proverb. He V9'as Abderit. ofaNoble Family being defeendedfrom the
Brother
D EMOCKITVS.