Part XIII.

tCU^US.
T37
Alcamenes^ •one of the, molt eminent things in {d) In Imag. Athene ^ (as may be gathered aflfo from (r/J Ludan) and that the Temple of Vemsy with' the Statue of Ceieltial F(?w«r, did joyn to it. This Garden is often mentioned in the Plural number by (e) Cicero, (/) ywv&nd, and others, and fometimes diminutively, Hortulus , a^ ; But, 'howfp-
ever it be us’d, it is commonly taken for the Sedl or Dodirine delivered in that place by Epi- and his Scholars. When 5tfxf«r Ernpiri-
(() Ad Attic
Eph. 2. 24.
(/; Sar. J4.
curt/f
(g) in Leiclc. (ir) In Lexic.
CUJ calls the Epicureans, the Philofopher's of the Gar» den (as the Stoicks,the Philolophers’ of the Stoa or cloifier,) and ApoUodorus being in his time the 'Mafter of the Garden, was, as'£«- ertius affirms , called the Garden
King.
Befides this Garden, which, with Houfes be¬ longing to it, joyned upon the City, Epicurus had a Houle in Melite, which was a Town of the Ce- cropian Tribe, as ig) Sutdas affirms, inhabited by PhiUus, one of the Anceftors of Epicurus, as was formerly faid, having (according to Phavoriatis) a faHtous Temple Dedicated to Her¬ cules. Hither Epicurus fometimes retired with his Difciples, and at laft bequeathed it to his Succeflors, as we IKall declare hereafter.
CHAP. VII.
Hoiv be lived v^ith his Friends,
(a) Lib. 10.
{h) InDcmetr.
time, we muff not omit an eminent place of (e) W P. De fin.
Isfqither (faith he) did hpicurus zpprove^'^'
‘‘ Friendihip in Dilcourfe only, .but much mors ‘‘ by Life, Atffions, and Manners, which how great a thing it is, tlie Fables. of the Ancients declare. For amongff the many various Sto- j, (i^s repeated fiosh utmoft Antiquity,, there «c ►found three pair of Friends, Lorn
^ 'Fhejetsf his Time down to Orejles, But how , companies of Friends, and how unanimoufiy Loving did hpicur'us keep in one *
‘ Houfe. and that verv 15rf!^‘ ? Wh->i-i ^C
Houfe, and that very lirrie? Which is done '‘even, unto this day by the Epicureans, thus Cicero. * ' '
ETkurus after h,is to Athens, at what
time Anaxicratei was Archon , went only twice or thrice to Ionia to vifit his Friends, but lived all the reff of his time ilnmar*
ried , her would ever forfake his Country, though at that time reduc’d to great extremi¬ ties, as (a) Laertins obferves. The worft of which was , when Demetrius befieged Athens, about the 44th Year of Epicurus's Age. How great a Famine at that time opprefs’d the City isdeferibd by (h) Plutarch. But it is obferva- ble, that having^ related a Story of the Conteff between a Father and bis Son, about a dead Aloule which had fallen from the top of a Houfe ; He adds, Thej' faj, that Epicurus the Phl- Icfopher fufiaind hi$ Friends Ti/ith Bta‘ns , ivhkh he
jhared equally aniongf therh', . , . . .
£pktcr/ts therefore lived all the reft of his time at Athens, together with fo many Friends and Difciples, whom he converfed with,and inftru(ff- ed, as that whole Cities were not fufficient to (c)Loc, cit. contain them (they are the words of (c) La ertius,) who reforted to him, not only from Greece but all other parts, and lived with him in his Gardens, as he cites out of ApoUoderus ; but . , efpecially from Afa, and particularly from Lamp' facrum, and (rom, Egypt , as may be colleded (i^Deocc.viv. out of {d) Plutarch. Of the Temperance and Frugality of his Diet ,we Ihall fpeak hereafter. As to his living with his Friends, it is remarka¬ ble what Diocles,^ in Laertius, and others, re late, That Epicurus did not, as Pphagoras, who faid the Goods of Friends ought to b^e in com mon, appoint them to put their Eff.ates into one joint Stock, (for that imply d a Diffruft, not a Friendihip j but that any one upon occafion (faoulc be freely fupply’d by th6 reft. This will ap pear more manifeft hereafter. In the mean
Amohgft the reft ofji'is Fribn*. (fj W-//)Loc.GIu tius memions Foljftrdt as, vj hi} Teems to be cheCaplS. fame,, of whqm together with ^Idippoclides ano- they Epicurean , (^g) I'aler'us Maximus gives a/\T-T r ‘ ftrange account. . i llfail infert the Words Valerius (the rather becaufe rhey will ferve to illuftrate part of Epictirus’s Will hereafter, con¬ cerning Coini-punjcation of the Goods of his Dif- ciplc : They' are thefe; Hither, may aptly “ be referred Polyfiratus and irippoclides , Philo- “ fophers, who, Horn the (ame day. Followers “ of the Sedi of the fame Mailer, Epkurus, joyn- “ ed together in ihe common peffeffion of E- “ ftate and Maintenance of that Sch ‘‘ very old, in the fime rtaoment of time. So ‘ equal a Society of Fortune and Friendihip,
“ who thinks not to have been begotten, bred,
“ and ended, in the bofom of Celeftial Concord ?
Tlous be. ^
CHAP. viir.
Fnends and Difciples.
B’Eing now to give a Catalogue of the chief- cft.of his Friends and Difciples, wc muft not in ehe'firft' place pafs by the Three Brethren of Epkurus, mention’d in the beginning, for they by bis advice ffudied Phiiofophy v/ith*him, as Philsdemus (in (a) Laertius) affirms, (b) I /-a) 1\h o tarch zMs, That they toOk in the Philufophy of u/ Amor,
their Brother, as greedily as if they had been pra.
Divinely infpired, Believing and Profefling ^rom their firlt: Youth, That there was nor any Man wifer than Epicurus. The moft eminent cf the Three was Neocles : He declaring from a Boy,
That his Brother was the wifeft of Mortals] ad¬ ded, as a wonder, That his Mother could con¬ tain fo many and fo great Atomes, as, by their Convention, made up luch a wife Man ,* ^s (c) i^^jaJv.CoI a Plutarch relates. Hence it appearing that Nco- c/«r; followed not any Fhilolbphy of his own, but that of his Brother, I know not why (d) feme WAsGenebr. affirm, that he introduced a Setft like that of -• ^hro-
Brother, unlefs perhaps they ground it upon that place of (ej Suidas, where he faith, that ATeof/fj writ concerning his Se nor, if may be underftood; that he writ con¬ cerning the Sedf yvhich hehimfclf profeffed, but vvas inftituted by another, efp^^cialiy for that there is nothing faid any where of the Sedt of the Heoclida.
• Ohierve by the Way, that this' Saying eiJffaf , Live tlofely , ) which (f) Plutarch op-
pugns, and is brought in (g) amongfi the Pro- chU.
Z z 7. verbial'-'-'- i^u.