Part XU.

Saidas faith. He was in the time of Philip King of Macedon, about the loi Olympiad: But this Teems rather to have reference to the time of his Birth, than to that wherein he fiourifhed; iov Anacfarchus (hisMafter) was Contemporary with Alexander the Son of Philip, and is, by Laertius, faid to have flourilhed in the iio{h. Olympiad ; for which reafon perhaps it is, that Saidas adds. And thence forivard. ( He was firft izs Apcllodorus a Painter; Ari/locles
faith. An ill one; But (d) Antigonus affirms, That*in the Gjmnafium at Elu, was prcferved a very good piece of his doing , reprefenting Torch- bearers.
fe) Afterwards ( faith Apollodcrus ) he’ ap¬ plied himfelf to Philofophy. Arifiocles faith, he lighted upon fome Writings of Democritus. Alex¬ ander in his Succeffions, That he heard Dryfo Son of Stilpo, whom Saidas terms Bryfo, adding, He was Difciple to GUnomcchus.^ a Dialedick, Contemporary with Stilpo.
(/) Next he additfted himfelf to Alexander, Difciple of Metrodorus the Chian, whofe Matter was Metrodorus the Ahdcrite.
(^gj Afterwards he heard Anaxarchusj [ the Ahderite ] whom he followed every where, in- Ibmuch as he converfed with the Gymnofophifi s in India, and with the Alagi.
CHAP. II.
His ln(litution of a Settt.
‘ TT E feemeth ( faith {a ) Afcanius the Ah- ‘ derite ) to have found out a noble way of
‘ Philofbphizing, introducing Incomprehenfion, ‘ and the way of Sufpenfion. For he afferted ' nothing, neither honeft nor dilhoneft, juft nor ‘ unjuft, and fo of every thing. That there is ‘ nothing indeed fuch, but that Men do all things ‘ by Law and Cuftom ; That in every thing, ‘ this is not rather than that.
(h) This was was called the2ercr/V,^Philofbphy, from its continual enquiry after Truth ; Sceptkk, from its continual Infpedion, and never finding ; EpheBtck, from the Aflfedion which follows up¬ on this Inquifition, Sufpenfion ; Aporetick, from j; c Readirg doubting of all dogmatical Opinions ; ( c j Vyr-
I Tsvppd- rhoman , from Pyrrho. But Theodofius , in his
j . Sceptick Summary, faith, That the Sceptkk Phi-
i; See i-txt. lofophy ought not to be called Pyrrhcnian : For 1 V jf the motion of another’s Intelled: be incom-
I *• 3- ptehenfible to us, we cannot know how Pyrrho wasaffettted; and, not knowingit, we cannot I be called Pyrrbonians. Befides, neither was Pyr-
! rho the firft that found out Scepttci/m , to ajjert
' no DoPlrine. It fhould rather be called, Uke the
I . courfe of Th\XS T'heodojias,
On the otlier fide, Numenius, ( and he only, as Laertius obferves) affirmed, That Pyrrho dog- ^ Tnatix,eth ; But of this more hereafter.
C H A P. III.
j Hit Manner of Life.
« L»ert. ^conformable (d) hereunto was his manner V-J of Lite he fiiunned nothing, nor took any
C Laert. d Laert.
e Laert.
f Suid.
g Laert.
a Laert.
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heed, bat went ftraight on upon every thing; Chariots, if it fo hapned. Precipices, Dogs, and the like, nor turning out of the way, nor ha¬ ving any regard to Senle, being faved, as Anti¬ gonus faith, by his Friends that followed him.
But cyEnefidemus affirms. That though he dif- courfed Philofophically upon Sufpenfioli, yet all his A(ftions were not inconfiderate.
Q) He ul'ed to walk forth folitary, feldome b Laert. ftiewing himfelf to thofe of his Family. This he did upon hearing a certain Indian reproach Anaxarchus for teaching, That no Man but him¬ felf was Good, and yet in the mean time he frequented the Courts of Princes.
(c) He vvas always in the fame ftate, info* C Laert. much tfiiatifany Man in the midft of his Dif. courfe went away, he neverthelefs continu’d his Difeourfe till he had ended it. Though in his Youth he were fickle, he took many Journies, never telling any whither he went, and chofe
fuch Company as he pleafed.
( d) Anaxarchus, falling into a Ditch , he d Laert. went on , not offering to help him ; vftiich when fome blamed, Anaxarchus himfelf com¬ mended his Indifference and want of Compun- dion.
(O Being found talking to himfelf, and de- e Laert. manded, Why he did fo? IJludy, faith he, how to he good.
{f ) In Arguments he was flighted by none, f Laert. forafmuch as he had - an extraordinary way of fpeaking to the Queftion ; with which he^^took Naujiphanes, being a very young Man, He faid, that his Affedion ought to be Vyrrhonian , his Words his own. Epicurus, often admiring the Converfation of Pyrrho, continually queftion’d him concerning himfelf; fo much was he honor’d by his Country, as that they made him chief Prieft, and, for his fake, made a Decree of Immunity for all Philolbphers. He had many that imitated his Unconcernednefs , whence Tmcn faith of him in his Pytho, and Sidi^
Howlearnd^ft thou ( agej Vy trho ') to untye The fla'vi^s hands of empty Sophifiry ?
The Air of Greece mind’ fi not, nar to know
Whence things are made, and into what they go.
And again in Indalmis,
Pyrrho I long to he inform’d by Thee,
How Thou, a Man, liv dfi like a Deity ?
Diodes ( cited by Laertius ) affirms the Athe~ nians made him free of their City, for killing Cotts the Thracian ; But this , as the learned Caufahon hath obferved, feems to be ^ miftake, occafion’d by the nearnefs of the Names ; for it was Pytho, Difciple to Plato, who flew Cotis, as is manifeft from Plutarch.
(g) Ejratofhenes relates, That he lived pioufly g Laert. with his Sifter, and often carried to Market Birds ; or, as it hapned, Pigs to fell, and ma¬ naged his Iloulhold- Affairs with the like indif¬ ference, infomuch as he is reported. to have waffled a Sow.
( ) But as once Philtfta, his Sifter, vvas fa- h Arift.
crificing, ( who being difappinted by a Friend, who promifed to give her things for the Sacri- fice, Pyrrho himfelf was conftrain’d to buy them) ^
he
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