Part XIII.

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XI.
‘ which you efteeni, and for which you aie
* efteeraed. Who would have known Idomene-
* us, if Eficurm had not graved his Name in his
* Letters ? All thofe Magiflrares and Princes, ‘ even the King himfelf, from whom Idamemus
* derived his Title, are now fuppreffed by a deep
* Oblivion. Thus he, And thefe ('faith Laertius)
* were the more eminent Difciples.
But to thefe may be added two our of Valerius,, already mentioned, PuljJlratus and Hippoclides ; efpecially feeing Laertius reckons Vvlyfiratus as Succelibr to Htrmachus, unlefs the Polyfiratus who is Joined to Hifpclides, were not the fame with him that fucceeded Herrmchus
We might add Timoerates of La^facunt, Bro¬ ther of Metrodorus • but he feems to have fal¬ len off, not brooking the Reprehenfions of his Brother. We ftiall therefore rather join to thefe Mm, the Servant of Epicurus, who, as Lartius affirms, became an eminent Phiiolopher , not omitted by (a) Agellim, and ih) sMacrobius, in
CHAP. IX.
Hov'y much he urcte. •
N Either did Epicurus fpend tile time in gi¬ ving his Difciples only Oral Inhrudions, but beftowed much pains in compoHng feveral Books. But to underdand how much he labour’d herein , by comp nifon with other Philolophers , hear but Laertius in his (a) Preface; Many things, faith he, Zeno writ', more, Xenophanes; mose, Denrocritus ; more.
(c) lib. 1 3.
(rf) De Nat. dnr.
(f)Lib. 8, and
2ft
Ariftotlc ; wrre, Epicurus; more, Chryfippus.
Where we fee char Epicurus , as to multi¬ tude of Writings came ihort only of Chryjip pus. But obferve , that elfewhere tins, to Ihew he may be thought to have ex¬ ceeded CbrjJifpus herein . cites Apdlodurus the Athenian, who, faith he, to Jlseus that what Epi¬ curus vnit of himjelf, nut b.rrwstd frorn any o- reckoning up thofe, who, of Servants, became tber, did far exceed the Bo. ksef Chrvhppns, faith famous for Philofnphy. ! exprejly thus : If a Man jhuujd take out of the Books
To omit Apelles, fomwhere derided by Plu-'^of Cln yhppus, the things wb.ch he hath borrowed tarcb, we nrufl here mention three Women, who of others, the Papa v>HL be left blank. But that together with others of the fame Sex, learnt thio may not feem fh ange, the . fame (c) Laer- (c) Lib.i6. Phiiofophy of Epicurus One Leontium , who ri/if elfewhere relates , that Chryfippus, for his ffudied Phiiofophy under Epicurus, as ('r) emulation of in wiiting much, wascal-
ntem recites, and may alfo be. collegicd from ^ led by CameaJts, the Parafite of his Bocks , be- (d) Cicero, who faith, Ibe wrote a Book againll caufe, if Ep'tcdtm writ any thing, (read
in an elegant Style, and in the ; fiot ). he wou’d affetl to write as much,
tick Dialed. The fecond, Themifia, Daughter PVhence it came tv pafs, that he often wrote the fame
of Zoilus, a Lampfacene , Wife of the formen- tioned Leontius. Of her. befides the TefHmo- nies which we (hall hereafter alledge, (e) Clemens Alexandritsut taketh exprefs notice. The third, Thilenis , ( f ) Athenaus affirms to have
written many thing^ ; adding that the obfeene Books aferi bed to her, were put forth under her Name , by Rslycrates the Sophift , to diferedit the Woman.
To thefe may be added Herodotus, to whom Epicurus writ a little Epitome of P by Tick, ex¬ tant in Laertius' and who amongff other things according to the fame Laertiu'^ writ a Book Of the youth
Tithocles, to whom Epicurus wiit of Superior things; extant in Laertius, and who affirmed, that when he was but 18 years old, he had not bis equal for Ingenuity in all Greece, as Plutarch relates.
Menteceus, to whom Epicurus writ that Epi ftle concerning Morality, which is extant in La¬ ertius its beginning recited alfo by Clemens Alexandrinus.
Timocrates, Son of Demetrius, a Potamlan, and Amynpmachus, Son of Philocrates of Bate, whom Epicurus made t\\Q Executors of his Will. .
Nicanor, whom Epicurus recommended to the care of the faid Executors.
Eurydicus, one' of thbfe to whom, as Laertius, faith, he writ Epiftles. .
Dofitbeas, and his Sorts Vyaho, and Hege^nax, to whom Epicurus wrote a confolatory Letter upon the death of their Father, as we find in Vlutarch.
1 omit Polymedes , Antidorus , and others, to be mentioned hereafter in treating of his Books.
things ever again, and whatfoever came next to h md, and prefently thruff it in for hafle , without corre- Elion ; and brought in fo many Tefiimonies of other IVriters, that his Books were filled up only with' them, as may be found in Zeno alfo., and Arilfotle. Thus Laertius of Chryfippus , but of Epicurus not fo :
For (d) he relates, that his Volumes amounted ’
to Three hundred, in which, faith he, there is no tefiimony of any other Author, but they are all the very words of Lfiicurxxs. Which I obferve, to (hew ('feeing Epicurus wrote fo many things, (e) a great Writer , as he terms him, and exceeding for multitude of Books, fo as {f)OngenchAT-if)Mv.Celf. ging Celfus with temerity , objedts as a thing bL 7. he conceives impollible. There is. not any of us, who , faith he , knows a'.l that Epicurus writ) his fluent Vein, and how he was chiefly em¬ ploy’d.
CHAP. X.
what Writings of bis are particularly mentioned by Authors,
HEre it is fit wc give a kind of Catalogue of his Books, not of all he wrote, but of thofe whofe 1 itles are extant in ocher Au. thors. I fay their Titles, for the Books them' felves have fo mifearried by the injury of time, that befides fome few Compendiurns preferv’d by Laertius, and fome Fragments fcatrer’d up and down amongfl feveral Writers, there is not any thing of them remaining, at leaft, as yet known to us.
To begin with thofe, which Laertius accounts the belt, they are ranked thus.
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