PART XIII.

EPICURUS.
As for their unanimity, to omjt that of Cice¬ ro^ ‘ / TPill maintain the Epicureans who are fo ma- ‘ wy, my Friends^ Men that are fo loving to one ano^ ‘ tber^ and the like places • and fhall rather ob- ferve, that whereas other Setfs almoft at their very beginning were diftrafted with inteftine difTentions ; the Epicurean was far from fufFer- (g) Orat. 4, ing any fuch thing. For (g) Themijlius writes, th&tSthe Opinions of Epicurus were kept by all the Epicureans^ 06 Laws -of Solon or LycMTgus. And, as if they had all one Soul amongft them, faith (b) Epift. 35. (fe) Seneca, Whatfoever Hermachus ajfirm'’d^ rvhat- foever Menodorus,M referred to one. Eill things that any Man delivers in that Society .^go under one Mari's name 5 This will appear more plainly, if we al¬ ledge the words of Numenius^ the Pythagorean.^ (OPrsep'Iib.^ in (f) Eufebius • who after he hath complain’d, that the SuccelTors of P/^rfo did *not preferve that Unanimity, for which the Pythagoreant were efteemed, adds, ” After this manner the £|/cw- ‘ reans being inftituted (though unworthy,)reem- ‘ ing not in any thing to diffent from Epicurus.^ ‘ and profelTing to have the fame Tenents with ‘ their wife Mafter, have not unjuftly attained ‘ their fcope. Hence it hath hapned to the; Epi- ‘ cureans for a long time, that they never, in any ‘ thing worth notice,contradifted either one ano- ‘ ther,or£p/£’«r«j. Amongft them it is an Offence, ‘ or rather Impiety, and Sin, to bring in any In- ‘ novation ^ wherefore none dares attempt it, ‘ Hence, by reafon of their conftant agreement ‘ among themfelves, they enjoy their Doftrines ‘ peaceably and quietly ; and this Inftitution of ‘ Epicurus refemblcs the true ftate of a perfeft ‘ Common-wealth, which being far from Sediti- ‘ on, is governed by one JoyntMind andOpinion.
‘ For which reafon, there have not, nor are not,
‘ nor, in likelyhood, will be wanting, thofe, that * fhall willingly follow it, but amongft the Stoical *■ Faction , S'c. One would think there were nothing wanting to this Teftimony, but, to fay (i) Lib. 1* of all the Fpicureaus., as ( ^ ) Falerius ( before ci- Chap. 8. ted ) did of two of them, that “ Such aSocie- “ ty might be thought to have been begotten, “ nonrifh’d, and terminated in the bofom of Ce- “ leftial Concord.
CHAP. XVI.
The Succejfors and Followers of Epicurus.
IT remains, that we give a Catalogue of thofe who were eminent in that Sed, after the death of Epicurus. We have already faid, that Hermachus fucceeded Epicurus , and Polyjlratus Hermachns. It alfo is manifeft from Laertius that Dionyfius fucceeded Polyjlratus *, and Ba/ili- des.^ tfionyCsus. But who thofe ten Succeflbrs were from Baftlides.^ to him who govern’d the School in the time of jdugujius^we cannot eafily fay. Per¬ haps after Bafilides.^ fucceeded Protarchus Bargy- (4) Lib. 14. leites^ whom (a) Strabo terms an Illuftrious Per- fon. 'The {ame Strabo faith, That Difci pie. to Protarchus was Demetrius.^ furnamed Lacon.^ who (6) Lib. 10. is mentioned alfo by (f' ) Laertius.^ and was, as (r)Adv.Log.2 ( c ) Sextus Empiricus faith, eminent amongft the Followers of Epicurus. Perhaps after him fuc¬ ceeded Diogenes of T arfus., Author of the Seleil Schools., whereof Laertius mentions XX Books. He alfo cites an Epitome of Moral Dodrine, written by the fame Perfon. Laertius menti-
ons alfo ( but whether they belong to diis Sc^ ries of Succeffors, is uncertain, ) Two Ptoiomies of udlexandria • whether from diffeienccs of Complexion, or fome other Refped, one Sir- named Black, the other White. He meutiens alfo Orion , and feems to mention one Deinort^ who, in I'lis Timocrates takes notice (of Plca- fure after Lpicunis's Dodrine;
There follow Two out of this rank, named by ( if ) jdtkcnms • The F.irft, Diogenes of Scleu^ cw near Babylon., whom he deferibes to haveC*^-) Deipn, 3- been Eloquent, but of an. ill Life ; The ocher Lyfas., who, as he faith, Governed at • and being chofen by the Country , Stephantfpho' rus ( Prieft of Hercules ) he enjoy'd th.e Supream Government, and wore Regal Ornaments. This is he, who diftributed the Eftates of the Rich amongft the Poor, and put many of them to death for refufing to part, with them. At what time he lived, we cannot certainly determine ;
Diogenes being contemporary with . .lexan- der King of Syria., and Antiochus his Succcffor:, may be referred to the i 5 Olympiad.
^ About the fame time feemeth to have flou- riflied Eucratidas., to whom belongs this Infcri- ption, recited by ^janus Gruterus • At Brundu- fmvn, before the Gate of Dio medzs Athen^eus,
Phyfjcian., on the Baf s of EllCRATIDAS Son OF PISIDAMUS, A RHODIAN, AN EPl- CUR.EAN PHILOSOPHER, THIS PLACE APPOINTED FOR BURIAL BY THE SE¬ NATE OF BRUNDUSIUM.
Not long after feems to have flourifhed in the School that Apollodorus^ whom Laertius term- eth eminent , x,nroyia.my., for that ( as I con¬ ceive ) he bore fuch fway in the Garden, as De^ mojlhenes is faid to done in Courts of Judi¬ cature. He wrote about 300 Books, amongft which were fome concerning the Life of Epicu- russ cited by Laertius. It may be conjedured, that he was the fame, whofe Chronology is ci¬ ted by Laertius., and others.
Auditor cf Apollodorus was Zeno the Sidonian., according to(e) Laertius., who adds, that he (e) Lib. 7. wrote much, and that he was famous both for Philofophy and Rheeprick ; whence I conje- dure, it is the fame Zeno of whom (/) Cicero .
faith. He fpoke Diftindly, Gravely, and Neat-^eor ^ ^ ”
ly ; and that he was Chief of the Epicureans ^ unlefs both He and Apollodorus lived earlier • which if it were fo, this other belongs to the Times of the Emperors, for {g ) Cicevo heard ^ ^ him, and writing concerning him to(h') Atti-^ ^)Epift.*5.ii' cus 5 Zew, faith He, J love as well as thou doJl.
CHAP. XVII.
Laertius, his Findication of Epicurus.
DIotymus the Stoick, much maligning Epicu¬ rus., traduced him exceedingly , prodn- *■ cing Fifty Epiftles, very lafeivious, as written ‘ by Epicurus • to which he added, as Epicuruses ‘ alfo, the fhort Epiftles, commonly aferibed to ‘ Cljrp/ippus. No iefs difaffeded to him were Po- ^ fdonius the Stoick, and Nicolaus, and Sotion.^ ‘ in the i 2tb of his Dioclean ConfLitarions,(which ‘ are in all XXIV, ) and Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus. ‘ For they fay, he went from Houfe to Houfe with ‘ his Mother reading expiatory Prayers • and A a a a ‘ thJlf
EPICURUS.