Part L

addiQed toinveftigation of Religious'Myfteries, addreft his firlt Journey to Thales at Miletust as to one that could beft further his defign, be- ^ vita Py- ing ( according to ^ Jamhlicus) not fhlly eigh- thag. 1, 2. teen years old ^ which if we follow the account of Eufebhis for his Birth (the fourth year of the feventieth Olymyiad ) and that of Soficrates for his Age, eighty years (for the reft, the farther they exceed that time, are lb much the more incapable of Reconcilement) will fall about the fecond year of the fifty" fourth Olympiad, which is the Sad. of Thales. From Thales he recei¬ ved the Rudiments of that excellence which he afterwards attained. This is apknowledged by yif. p I Jamhlicus. Thales.^ faith he, entertained, him
^ ^ admiring the difference between him
and other d'ouths., which exceeded the hatne he had received of him. After that he had inf rubi¬ ed him as well as he was able in the Mathenia- ticks.^ all edging for excufehis old Age and in¬ firmity.^ he advijed him to go to iEgypt, and to converfe with the Memphian Pr/W/x, efpecially thofe of Jupiter,, of whom he him/elf had in hts Travels learned thofe things.^ for which by many
* Vit. Pythag. he was efleemed wife-^ and, ^ again, among
* • 3’ other things Thales chiefly advifed him to husband
his time.^ in refpebi whereof he abfained from ' Wine and Elefh.^ only eating, fuch things as are light of digejiion.y by which means he proatred fhortnefs of fleep., wakefulnefs.^ purity of Mind^ and conflant health of Body.
CHAP. xm.
Of his Death,
T Hales having now lived to a great age, be¬ ing full of Honour and Wifdorn, died in the firft year of the fifty eighth Olympiad (when according to Paufanias Erxy elides w^as Ar- chon ) as he was beholding theOlympick Games, oppreft with heat, thirft, and the burden of his years which amounted to ninety two. Laertius
under-reckons him to have lived but eighty fe-
ven years, having before acknowledged his
’Birth to have been in the firft of the 3 5th01ym- *
piad. t Petavius over-reckons, who makes him ^ Rationar,
live to the end of the 5Srh, which could not he, temp. 1. 12.
becaufe he died fpebfator of the Olympick
Games. ^ ^ Lucian and t Sincellus more, who * hngxviu
fay he lived 1 00 years. Soficrates comes neareft
to the Truth, who allow’s him to have lived 90
years*, and to have died in the 58th Olympiad 5
for from the firft of the 58th are 23 entire O-
lympiads.
The manner of his Death gave Laertius oc- cafion to fivour him with this Epigram.
Viewing tE Olympick Games Elean Jove,
Thoudidf wij eTh.2\.es fromthathis race remove
Nigher thy Jelf and Twas well done, now old
He could not well from Earth the Stars behold.
He was Buried according to his own appoint- vh.Sdon, ment in a poor obfeure part of the Milefian Field, where he prefag’d that in fume times their Forum ftiould be 3 fipon his Tomb this Diftich,
Narrow the Tomb, the Fame than Heaven more wide,
of wifefl Thales whom this Earth doth hide.
There was alfb a Statue eredted in Honour of him bearing this Infcription,
Alileflan Thales this doth reprefent.
Who all in wife Afrology outwent.
(
t There were five more of this Name men- f tioned by Demetrius the Alagnefian, an Orator of Calates, an affedted Imitator. A Painter of Sicyoma, of a great Spirit. The third very An¬ cient,- contemporary with Hefiod, Homer, and Lycurgus 3 The fourth mentioned by Duris - The fifth of later times, by Dionyflus' in Criti- cis. ^ Laertius names Phercydes as a detradfor ZVit. Socrat: from Thales the Philofoper,
SOLON,
Part. I.
SOLON.
*5
Plkt.
• Laert. Pint.
CHAP. r.
Solon hs Farents^ Country^ and Conditm,
by Didymusyif^ims that Soli rather was named Euphorion. but bv unanimous confent of all other Writers he i ^lled Execejhdes, a Perfon though of fir Fortune and Account among the Citizens
from Codrus, ^ Solon deriving himfelf ftom I
^’/4f,SonofC7yr»j, and from f His
Mother near of kin to the Mother o^Pififtratus. f. Laert. ms Parents had another Son named Dropides ^ocius in n* Archon, the year after Solon, from him was Plato defcended. ^
Solon was born (according to Uertius) at Salamts^ for which reafoh he defired at his
death
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