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he v/as very angry, and fell out with her for it ; whereupon one of his Friends faying, “ That “ his Adions were not anfwerable to his Dif- “ couife, nor fuch as his profeffion of Apathy, or Indifference, required ; He anfwer’d, In- difference is not to be ffewn towards Women.
1 Ariii. ( i ) Oh a time, a Dog flying upon him, he and Laert. was troubled at it, [ and got to a Tree ] for which they who were by, deriding him, and cavilling at it, he faid, “ It is hard to put off “ Man quite, yet we muft firft flrive as far as “ poffible, with adionagainft things, and if not “ fo with reafon.
k Laerti ( k) They fay, that upon occafion of fome
• Wound, he underwent corrofive Medicines, Incifion and Cauterifing. His greatnefs of Courage is attefted by Timon.
Philo the Athenian, who was his Difciple , faith. He mentioned Democritus vixth greateft re- fped, and next him Homer with much admira¬ tion, continually faying,
Juff like the race of Leaves, is that of Men j and for that he compared Men to Flies, and Birds. He ufed alfo to repeat thefe Verfes,
But dye, my Friend, why (Iwuld’ff thouthsts lament ?
Patroclus dy'd too, who Thee far out-went.
And all things whatfoever that declar’d the In-
• conftancy. Vanity, and Childifhnefs of Mankind.
Pofidonms relates of him. That, being at Sea in a Storm, his Companions dejeded, he, with a quiet mind, Ihewed them a Pig feeding in the
Ship, faying, A wife Man ought to be felled in fuch Indifiurbance.
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t His Death, and Difciyles.
He ( a) dyed 90 years old, ( h ) leaving a laert. nothing behing him in writing. b Laen.
( c) his Difciples, fome were very emi* c Laert. ' nent, of which number were, thefe, •
Eurylocbus, of whom is related this Extrava¬ gance: On a time he was fo far tranfported with Fury, that, fnatching up the Spit with the Mear upon it, he purfued the Cook into the Forum : And at Elis, being weary of thofe that difputed with him, he threw off his Cloke, and fwam crofs the River Alpheus. He was a great Enemy to the Sophifs, as Timon faith.
Philo, [an Athenian'] who frequently. talked to himfelf j whence Timon of him.
Of private, talking with himfelf alone,
Not minding Glory, or Contention. ‘ •
Hecateem of Abdera.
Timon, the Pbliafian, who writ the SiUi. ^
Naufiphanes, a Teian, whom, they fay, Epi¬ curus heard.
Thefe all were called Pyrrhenians from their Mafter ; Aporeticks, smAScepticks, and Ephelhcks, axidi Zeteticks, from their (as it were.) Dodrine.
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His Life,
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the Hkeany in his Firft Book of iientaries upon the SiHi, Dedicated to rtr, faith, that the Father of limon
was named tmarchus, by Country a Vhlmjkn ;
that Ttmon,^ whilft in his Youth, taught to Dance i but afterward changing his Mind, he
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