Part Xil.

took 3 Journey to Megara, to fee StilpOj and ha¬ ving had converfation a while with him, re¬ turned home and Married. Then he went to Elis to fee Tyrrhoy taking his wife along with him, vvho, daring the time of his being there bare him Sons ,* the Elder he called Xanthm, whom he taught Phyfick, and left IrmhisSuc- celTor in the courfe of Life he himfelt had led.
Sotion in' his Tenth Book affirms, he was ve¬ ry eminent. Wanting neceffary Provifions, he went to the Hellefpont, and Propontis, and profcl- fing Philofophy at Cbalcedon, was exceedingly honour’d. From thence having now gotten a good flock, he went to Athens, and lived there to his end, except that once he made a ftiort 1 journey to Thebes. He was known to Antigonm the King, and Ptolonueiss Philadelphfts , as hehim- lelf attefts in his lambicks. •
Fie was, as Antigonm faith, a lover of Wine, and gave himfelf much diverfion from Phiiofo- phical Studies, as appears by his Writings.
Fie took much delight in Gardens and Soli¬ tude, as Antigonm reports j wheieupon Wrfrew;- mus the Peripatetick faid. That as the Scythi ans [hoot both when they fy and when the) purjue j jo of Pbilofophers, jome get Difciples by running aj- ter them, others by nmmng j}-om fhem, as Timon.
He was of an acute apprehenflon , and quick in deriding ; a great lover of Writing, very skilful in Compofing Poetical Fables,' and Drama’s. In his Tragedies he had much of Homer, and of Alexander. When Servants or Dogs difturb’d him, he gave over, aiming above all^ things at a quiet life.
Aratm demanding of him by what means lie might procure an uncorrupt Copy of Horner^ he anfweFd, If you can light upon old Copies, not thof$ that have been lately corre His own Poems were thrown up and down, confufedly, and many times torn ; infbmuch as when Zopyrm the Orator read fomething of his, he made it up out of his own Memory ; but when he came to the midft, there was a great gap, which he was ignorant of.
He was fo indifferent, that he obferved no time for Dinner.
Seeing Arcejilam walking amongfl Flatterers, He faid, What do you here, where we Freemen are?
. ^ Of thofe who judge by the Senfes, and Mind,
he continually faid, Attagas and Numn'ins are met.
U LMTt. ( b) He often ufed to fport after this manner ; To onCj that admired all tilings, Wh^ , faith
he, dojh^ thou not admire, that we, being But three, have fokr Eyes for lie, and Diofcorides his Dif
c Laert. ciple, had each of them but one Eye, [ (' c j whence he ufed to call himfelf Cyclops j the other to whom he fpoke had two. And on a time, being demanded by Arcejilaus, Why he came from Thebes to Athens , he faid , That 1 might laugh to fee you fiy. But though in h\s Sidi he abufed Arcejilam, yet in his Treatifs entitu- led, Tioe funeral Banquet of Arcefilaus, he com¬ mends him.
CHAP. II.
His Death and IVritirgs.
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E Died almofl 90 years of age, as Antigo- iscrt. and Sotion in his nth Bock alarm.
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Ihere was another Timon, the Man-hater of whom, (ee Lucian and Sutdas.
Fie wait Poems, and Verfes, and Tragedies, and Satyrs, Comical Dramas 50. and Tragical 60. and Silli and Cimedi. There werealfo feveral Wri¬ tings of his in Profe, amounting to 20000 Pa¬ ragraphs.
Of his Sidi there are Three Books, in which, as a Sceptick, he reproached and derided all the Dogmatifts: The Firfi written in bis own Perfon, in a continued way. The Second and Third hy way of Dialogue. ' Hequeftioned Xe¬ nophanes the Colophonean about every thing, who anfwers to all. In the Second, He Treats of the more Ancient; In the Third, of the Later Philoiophers, whence fome entitle it the Epi¬ logue. The Fir/l Bock contains the fame things, only delivered in another way, the Poem ha¬ ving but One Perfon. It begins thus ;
Now bujie Sophifis ad, comefodowms.
CHAP. III.
Succejfion of the School.
\ Lthough, as Difciples of Timon, are men- tion^dihy Laertius, Xanthmhis ’son, and Dioj corides ^ and, by Suidas, Pyrrho a Phliafian,
Son of Ttmarchus ; yet f ) Monodot m affirms, a Laert.
That Timon had no SuccelTor, but that the “ Inftitution was intermitted, until Ptolomy a ‘‘ Cyrenaan renew’d it; whofe Auditors ( accord- ing to Hippobotus and Sotion ) were Diofcorides “ a Cyprian, Ntokebus a Rhodian, Euphranor a Se- “ Itician, and Praylus of Troas, who was of fo “ fetled a conftancy , that being accufed of Treafon, he chofe rather to undergo the pu- “ nilhment unjuftly, than to plead to hisCoun- “ try men.
“ Eubulus an Alexandrian, heard Euphranor^
“him, Ptolomy \ him, Sarpedon and Heraclides,
‘‘ Difciple to Heraclides was ^/£,neftdemt^s a Gnoj- jian, [who houriffied, as Arifocles faith, at Alexandria^ he wrote eight Books of Pyrrhonian ‘SDifeourfes. Him, Zeuxippus of Polls heard ;
“ Him , Zeuxis, brnamed him, An-
tibchus , a Laodicean of Lycus ; him , Mem- “ dotusoi Nicornedia, an EmptricalPhydcizn, and Theodas of Laodicea, Difciple to Menodotus was Herodotus o^Tarjis, Son of Arkus ^ to Herodotus,
Sextus Empiricus, whofe Ten Books of Sceptick Phi¬ lofophy are extant, and other excellent Treatifes.
[This Sextus may probably be elteemed that Sextus Chesronenfis, Nephew of Plutarch, whom Marcus Aurelius the Emperor fo honoured, that he admitted him to fit in Judicature with him.]
“ Difciple to Sextus was Saturninus^z. Cythencean ,
“ who was alfo Sirnamed Empiricus. Flitherto Laertius.
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HAving fpoken of the Author of the Scep- tick l^hiiofophy, and its Succeffion, our ^ Method leads us to fet forth the Dodrine it- felf ; which being already excellently handled ‘ by Sextus Empiricus, I think it would be more ‘ for the Reader’s advantage, to have it deli- ‘ vered in his Words than in my own. The * Treatife, 1 confefs, may ftem long; and in* ‘ deed I had fome Thoughts of abridging it : ‘ But when 1 confidered, how difficult it were ‘ lb to prune it, as to pleafe all Perfons, and ‘ that itfelf was intended but as a Summary ; ‘ and that if it had been my cafe to have recei- ‘ ved it from fome other hand, I fhould rather ‘ have delired to have it entire, of what length
‘ foever, than mangled even by a skilful Artift : ‘ I hope I ftiall be excufed, if 1 fo deal with the ‘ Reader, as I Ihould defire to have been dealt ‘ withal my felf. Neither can I fuppofeit will ‘ be unpleafant to thofe, who have been conver- ‘ fant in the more fevere and knotty Dilquifiti- ‘ ons of the Schools ; for the Author is Learned ‘ and Acute, even beyond the Subjed he han- ‘ dies, and hath many paflages of the Antients, ‘ which are not elfewhere to be had. But if any ‘ who have accuftomed themfelves only tolighc- ‘er Studies, Hiall think it tedious, it is no great ‘ pains to turn over fome Leaves, and fee if * they can find fomething elfe more accepta- ‘ ble. •
A Summary of SCEPTICISM.

THE FIRST BOOK.
CHAP. I.
The Three Differences of Thilofophers in General.
IT is likely, that they who feek, muft either find, or deny that they have or can find, Of perievere in the enepuiry. Hence fit may be) fome of thofe who profefs Philofophy, declare, they have found the truth ; others hold it im- poflible to be found ; others ftill enquire. They who fuppofe they have found ic, are called Dog- rnatifis\ fuch are the Peripateticks, the Epicure¬ ans, the Stoicks, and others ; they who think it incomprehenfible, are Clitomachus,Ciirneades, and other Jcademicksi they who ftill enquire, are the Scepticks. So as there feemeth to be three kinds of Philofophy , Dogmatick , Academick , Sceptick. The two firft we leave to others, in¬ tending a fummary of the Sceptick : profeffing before-hand, that we are not fure any thing we fay is abfolutely fo, as we affirm; but we (hall plainly difeourfe on every thing, as it appear- eth to us for the prefenr.
The Special is that, wherein we contradid every part of that which is called Philofophy. But firft of the General.
CHAP. III.
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The Names ^Scepticifm.
The Speptick Inftitution is called alfo ZeteA tick, (Inquifitive) from the Ad of Enqui¬ ring ; EpheEtick, ( Sufpenfive ) from the Affedi- on rais’d by enquiry after things ; Aporetick (Du- hitative) either (as fome fay) from doubting of, and feeking after all things, or from being in doubt whether to affent or deny ; Pyrrhonian, in as much ai Pyrrho delivered it to us more fub- ftantially and clearly than thofe before him.
CHAP. IV. ;
what Scepticifm is.
CHAP. II.
The Parts o/ Scepticifm.
OF Sceptick Philofophy there are two parts. General and Special' The general is that, wherein we explain the Charader of Scepticijm, declaring ( i) the Signification of it; (z) the Principles ; (;) the Reafons; (4) the Criterie, ( or Inftrument of Judication ; ) f j) the End ; (6) tlie Common-places of Sufpenfion; (7) how the Sceptical Phrafesare to be undetftood ; rs; the difference of Scepticifm from thofe Philofo- phies that are moft like -it.
SCepticifm is a faculty oppofing Phenomena’s ( Appearances J and Jntelligibles, all manner of "ways ; "whereby we proceed through the e^quiva- lence of contrary Things and Speeches, firji to Suf¬ penfion, then to Indiflurbance.
We call it a Faculty, from the power there¬ of ; by Pheenomena’s we underftand Senfibles , which we oppofe to Intelligibles. Thefe words, all manner of ways, may be referred to Faculty, taking the word Faculty, ( or Power ) fimply. ^ Kai tb* (a) It may likewife be applied to the oppofition av-n^'ls- betwixt Pheenomena’s and Intelligibles, fince we &c; oppofe them feveral ways, Phoenomena's to Phe- vt S. nomenas, or Intelligibles to Intelligibles, or ,read Ppp 2 One tJ,
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