PART 1.

A N A C H A
S.
CHAP. L
Anacharfis kis Life and Writings.
f Lib. 4. 46.
Hofe Nations ( faith t Hercdolus)\MotherofthcGods^v:!jhmuchfpkndc‘r.ii;idm;in> which Border upon theLwyLnQ Sedpire\ficcnce'^ he made aVow^ if be got fajeheme^ 10
^}Strab. lib. -7.
i'ZMrt.
Plut.c pep. Sap.
f j&tan.var. hift. lib. 5.
"* Herod. 4. 46 f Laert.
* LMciait, Scyth.
I of all mo ft Illiterate.^ the Scythians
M • only excepted ^ we can alledge nothing relating to Learning of any People within the corn- pafs of that Sea., neither know xf:e any P erf on Learned but the Scythians Anarchafis •, ^ Among ji thefe, notwitfianding theroughnels of their Edu¬ cation^, they fed upon Mares AYilk., and dwelt in Waggons) were feme who far exceeded all in Juftice.
Such was Anacharfis., t Son of Gnurus, Bro¬ ther of Cadovides., King of Scythia t, his Mother a Grecian, by which means he had the advantage of two Language sfiMt was owner of no other Houfe than the Cuftom of that Country allofv’d, a Chariot, whence ^ he compared his dwelling to that of the Sun, carry’d in that manner round the Heavens.
t The Scythians never Travel beyond their own Confines, hut Anacharfis as a Perfon endu’d with more than ordinary Wifdom extended his Journey farther, ^ being fent by the King of Scy¬ thia to Greece, f He came to Athens in the firft' year of the 47th Olympiad, Eucrates being Ar- chon : and ^ firft met with Toxaris one of his own Country, by whom, as the molf compendi
Sacrifice in the fame manner as he had jeen thoje of Cyricum, and to infiitute a Virgil. When he came into Scythia, he withdrew himfclf privately to Hylxa, near the Achyllean courj'e., a place abounding with Trees., and performed the Rites of ■the Goddefs with a Timbrel find Cymbal ^ about ^ ^ his Neck) A Scythian efpying him., carried word admom. ad ' /i? Saulius/^^ Kingfiohowent immediately thither., gent, and being an ey e-wit nefs thereof Jhot him 1 trough with an Arrow ( k to punifh his Effeminacy, and prevent the infe6:ion thereof in others) ^ And cph.^. jn^y.. now if any enquire concerning Anacharfis, theiM. Scythians deny they knew him, becaufe he Travel- ^fimd. con- led into Greece, and afeUed the Cufloms of that Country, 1 am informed ^4^ Timnes,T/'// Spargapithes, he zvas Uncle to Indathyrfus,
King of Scythia, Son of Gnurus, Son of Lycus,
Son of Spargapithes : Now Anacharfis being of this Pamily, it is manifefl he was t Slain by his j.
Brother, fih^t his Brother was King ot thia, and Slew him, is confirmed by Laertius, udd though he differ in the Name,) for Indathyrfus spargapithes.
^ Saulius, Saulius was he who fiow charfis, and cohfequently is the fame whom* ■ ' j. Laertim calls Cadovides, adding, fome report Gnurus.
'eJzro TO
ous way to take a Survey of Athens and Greece, that he Shot him in Hunting -, for being addiUed to he was addrefs'd to : how received
f Strah.lib.j f clem. Alex. Strom. I. t Clem. Alex. Strom. 5. ^Mlian.lib. 2
f Athtn.ie'ipn. 10,
• Herod. 4.7$,
and entertained him is already related in his Life.- he inftru£tedhim in the beft Difeiplines, recom¬ mended him to the Favour of Nobleft Perfons, and fought all means of giving him Refpefl: and Honour: Anacharfis admired hisWTfdom, con¬ tinually followed him, in a fhort fpace learnt all things of him, and was kindly received by every one for his fake ^ being (as Theoxenus attefts ) the only Stranger whom they incorporated into their City.
t Thus was he much Honoured by the Greci¬ ans for his Perfoflion, Wifdom, Temperance, wherein he excelled many of their -Philofo- phers, whereupon they conforred the Attribute of Wife upon him, fome accounting him one of the Seven : Periander invited him witfi the reft to Corinth , the Feaft is largely deferibed by Plutarch ; There Afiacharfis carrying with him Chaplets of Flowers, Ivy, and Laurel, Drunk, as the Scythians ^ufe, to great excels, ^ and required the Prize of Drinking to be given him, becaufe he was firft Drunk. In a Race (fa,ith he ) he wins who comes firfi at the Poft, in Drinking, he who eotnes firft to tile End deferves the Reward. , , .
f Having feenmuchof the World, andimp.rovcd his kpiozoledg, he, returned to - Scythia (as Lucian conjeflures, not until Solon was'dead) as he Sail¬ ed qlong-theTAMoTpo\\x,he put in Cyriciira, and findfigthe People Celebrating a Eeflival to the
r.
the Greek Cufloms, and endeavouring to alter the
^ Scythia ^ whereupon he dying, fiid, he ficluida. returned fafe out of Greece, guarded by his own i. Wifdom], but was flain at home by the envy of^’^I^dipfusi others. Upon him Laertius hath this Epigram.
From Travel Anacharfis came at lafl, f ’
And Scythia in a Grecian Alould zoas cafl'i WhilJI he was teaching how, by t he Surpri-ze Of'a winged Arrow carried to the Skies.
‘ vJ . * *
There were many Statues erecled in ucw. nour of him by the Grecians, upon which convivi was writ, Tramit ytsept aiJhiav v.gf.Tto ^ was Temperate and Skilful in many things ; ‘
He freely and largely difeourfed of the manner of Diet and Medicine, which the 6'a’//;/V/A’x ufed in curing the Sick: From the plain freedom he ■ ufed in Speech, arofe a Proverb' The Scythian Phrafe. He writ eight hundred Verles of Or¬ ders for the Scythians and Greeks.^ cOTcerning Frugal Living, and Martial Affairs. There are alfo two Epiltles of. his .extent.
Anacharfis to Crosfus.
Kh'gcf theLy^tmSy I came into Greece to be informed of their Manners and Stud.ea-, I need not Money, it n enough f ' 1 can return into Scythia .'bettered: but I will come to Sardis, be¬ caufe I highly e^.eem your Favour.
Anachaifio
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Part j
^ Anacharfis to Hanno, Health,
kT Apparel is a S^thian Rug^ my Shoes
C'k, ThPcuI.
qusft. 5.
(^) Clem. alex. tlje hardnefs of my- Ye et^ my Bed the
ment,*^doubt-^* Eart\ my Sauce Hunger •, I feed on Milk^ Cheefe^ lefs out of the and Ylejh : you may come to me as to one thaPs fame^Epiftle. contented: But thofe gijts which you fo much %(ui 5n«- cfleem. beftow either on your Citizens, or the im-
loeJf. * ' (b) is faid to have Invented Tinder, \h)Strab. -j. _ (c) the Anchor, and the Potters Wheel ^ but (c) Laert.Smd. latter is by Strabo evinced clearly to be Falfe, becaufe mentioned by Horner^ who lived long after him, Anacharfis being in the time of Crcejus,
CHAP. VII.
His Apophthegms.
(d) Laert,
HI S Apothegms are thefe, {d) He faid a Vine bare three Grapes.yhe fa- ft of Rleafure,^ the fecondof Drunkennejs,^ the third of Repent¬ ance. Hewondred,^ that amongft Greeks, Ar- tijis contended,^ and they who were no Artijis de¬ termined. Being demanded by what means a Man might be brought not to love Wine,, be faid,, by fet- ting before his eyes the AElions of JAr unken Per- fans. He wondreA,, the Grecians who punifhed In¬ juries by Law,, rewarded the Athletae at publick Exercijes for beating one another. Being told a Ship is four inches thick,, fo far from Death, /aid he, are they who Sail, he faid Oyl was a Receipt procuring Madnefs,, becaufe the Athletae, the more they were anointed therewith, the more fierce they ijoere againjl one another. How comes it,, laid he, that they who forbid lying, themfelves lye openly, when they put off their Wares ? He wondred that the Greeks in the beginning of aFcaJi drank in lit¬ tle Cups, and when they were full in great .( e) Be¬ ing demandedipy Ardalus ) whether there were any Elutes in Scythia, he anfwered., not fo much as Vines (which (/) Arijiotle calls a demonftration ov , by the remote Caufe ) (g) Ardalus adding,,are . ^ there not Gods amongft the Scythians ? yes,, reply' d
7hj Lae't. under ft and all Languages, (h) Being as-
^ * kedwhat Ship was fafeft, he anfwered, that which
is in the Haven. He affirm'd the moft remarkable
(e) pint. tori' viv.feft. S.ip. Strab. 15.
(^f) Analyt. poj}. I. 13. (gj Pint, con-
thing he had feen among the Grecians / that they left the Smoak upon the Mountains, and carried the Wood into their Cities. Being demanded whether the number of the dead or the living were great eft: ^ amongft which, faith he,, do you account thofe who are at Sea? To an Athenian, who Re¬ proached him for being a Scythian, my Country.,
(faith he) is a Dijgrace to me,, but you are a Dif grace to your Country. Being demanded what in M an is both Good and Bad, he anfwered the Tongue.
He affirmed it is better to have one Friend worth much j than many worth nothing. He faid the Fo- rum was the proper place for Cheating and unjuft Gain. To a young Man who Reproached him at a Feaft-,, Touth,,faid he,, if at thefe years you can¬ not bear Wine, when you grow old, you will not be able to bear Water.
(i) When he returned to Scythia, he told the QJ tteroi. 4Z King who fent him,, the Greeks were buffed in all kinds of Wifdom, except the Lacedaemoni¬ ans, who only knew bow to give and receive prudently.
(fP) He faid, the Greeks made no other ufe of (k) Pint, it Money but to account with it. (/) At a Public vimu Ajfembly in Athens, he faid, he wondred, why in^’piut. vit, the Gicq]a. Convocations, Wife Men propounded Sol.
Buffnefs, and Fools determin'd it. ^ That Prince * Ptat. com/, if Hcrppy who is Wife. That City is beft, wherein ' -
(all things elfe being equal) Vertue hath the bet¬ ter Condition, Vice the worfe.
(m) To one, who, as they were Drinking, faid,^^ beholding his Wife, Anacharfis, you have Married one who is nothing Handfome : i am (anfwered he) of that Opinion alfo-, but put lefs Water in my Wine, that I may make her handfome. „ ,
Relating the ^talities of the Vine to the King ^^ Scythia, and fhewing him forne flips thereof, he added, and by this time 'it would have reached into Scythia, if the Greeks did not every year cut off its Branches, * At a Feaft fuch beittg .
Jent jor, as might procure Mirth, be alone m, fmiled not 5 afterwards, an Ape being brought in, * Athen. dafn, he Laughed, faying, that Beaft is Ridiculous by *4* Nature, Man by Art and Study. ^ cUm. Mae,
Whiljft he flept, he ufed t? fAli
7« (uJVm' r? a li fcpi*, implying that a Man ought to- take great care to Govern both, but that it is harder to reftrain our Pleafure than our Tongue. He faid, that to him all the Grecians were Scythians.
M Y S O N
M
TSON was (according to Her- mippi/s ) Son of Stremon, born at Chene, a Village either of Oet£a, _ _ _ or Lacedamonia, his Father a Ty¬ rant. Anacharfis demanding of the Oracle, if any were wifer, was anfwered (as was in the Life of Thales mentioned of Chilon.)
Oetcean Myfon 1 declare Wifer than thofe who Wif eft are.
I His Curiofity encreafing by this Anfwer, he I went to the Village, and finding him fitting a Plough-fhare to the Plough, faid, Myfo, it is not yet time to Plough ; But it is ( anlwe- red he) to prepare. Others aflSrm the Oracle called him Etean, about which there is much difference : Parmenides faith, that JJzz’j is a La- cedamonian Village, whereof Myfon was. Soft¬ er ate s, that he was Etean by his Father, Che¬ ne an by his Mother. Euthyphron, that he was a Cretan, Etea a City or Greet, Anaxilaus an Arcadian, Hipponax mentions him in thefe
words
words. jd;^r/Myfo, v^hom Apollo declared the wifefi af all Men. Ar 'ifiojnenus affirms he was of the lame humour as Timon and Apemantus., a Man-hater. He retired from Laced£mon into the Delert, and was there furprized all alone ^ fmiling, being demanded why he fmiled, no Man being prefent, he aniwered, lor that reafon. Arijloxenus faith, he was of no ac¬
count, becaufe not of the City, but of an oblcure Village j whence Ibme afcribe his fay* ings to Pijijiratue^ but others reckon him one ot the Seven j Plato puts hiiji in the room of Per 'iander. He laid, we mujl not feek things from words^ but words from things ^ things were not made for words but words for things. He died 5>7 years old.
E P I M E n;i D E s.
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Vimenides is by all acknowledged a comrtianded by the Oracle to luftrate the Ci-
Cretan ( though contrary to the Gu from of that Place he wore long Hair 0 but in the Town where he was born they agree not. Laertius following the greater part of Wfiters, faith itwas(^zj Cnof- f 1 M Strabo^ Phiejli/s; There is no lefs difference about the names of his Parents ^ fomecall his Father Phafius., or Phaftus^ others Do/iades^ his Mother others Agafarcht^'.^ . Apol¬
lonius.^ Bolus., Laertius., and Suidas name his Mother Plutarch (b) Balt a., fuppoleda
Nymph.
It is reported, that when he was a Youth, being fent by his Father and Brethren to their Field to fetch home a Sheep to the City, Tyr’d with the Heat and Travel in fearch thereof, he withdrew himfelf at Noon ( or as Apolloni¬ us., at Night) from the Common Way into a private Cave, where he flept ( according to Pc) Theopompus) fifty feven years^ according to Varro^ (e) Plutdrch,‘ and ( j) Lertulluin., F/m.7. 32. fitty, (g) Paufanas ioxVf., in which interval ot Time, moft of his Kindred died at the end
(b) One of thcfe names perhaps is corrupt.
(c) Afollon,
ty, lent JVicias., Son ot Kiceratus with a Ship to Greet., to delire Epmenides to*come to them, which he did, and there contracted acquain¬ tance with Solon^ whom he privately inflruCted, fetting him in the way of making Laws. He reduced the Divine Rights to a leffer Charge 3 he moderated the Mournings of the Citizens, he added fome Sacrifices to the Ceremonies of Funerals^ taking away Barbarous Cuftoms which the Women tiled upon thofe occafions ; and ( which was of greateft concernment) by Pro¬ pitiations^ Procurations, and Olferings, he Lu- frrated and Expiated the City, rendring the People more oblequious to Jultice and Unity,- (d) and ftaied the Pellilence in this manner ; He took Sheep, Black and White, and brought ^ ^ them into the Areopagus j there he let them loole, to go whither they would, giving or¬ der to’ thole who iQllovt’ed them, that when- foever any of them lay down, they ' fhould Sacrifice in that place to the proper- Deity, whereby the Plague eealed. Hence ' it isy that at this day, ( faith Laertius) are to be leen in
Laer.
awaking he betook himfelf again to | many Villages, Namelels Altars, Mo-
^)Anfenifit ^he featch of his Sheep, thinking it the fame, numents of that Expiation. Some afiirm, he lerenda rdp. or .the next ffay tojchat wherein he lay dowu, [imputed it to the Impiety (of which,
CBDeanima. 2nd that he had flept but a little while- not i already in the Life of 5’i?/^;?) and alfwaged it, n Attic the it, he recurned to the Field where he faw | by putting to Death two Young Men, Cratim*s
ifumbcHn all tilings changed, and a Stranger' In Poffeffion j and i
swdas feems thereof; Thenceto' the City much amaze;^ -, go-j (^) pe is ^hofed fiffli to hate built Tern- (i') falfe, as allb j^g into his own Houfe, they queftioned who; pies-, oneheEreaed in Athens to the Eumenides-,
T he was,j; at laft he met with his younger Bro- another he intended to Conlecrate to the
ppen X i-tiOf tiz-vi*! orr/-iTxrn
adages-, one hath 6. the other 7.
ther,now grown old- by whom he was! inform’d of a.ll that palled, and the time of his ablence.
Nymphs, but a voice from Heaven ' Was heard in th'(^ word% EfmeAi^et., not to ''the^Nympbl.^
Plutarch iaiih., he 'awaked an Old Man ^ {h) but to’']nf\iQt.
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... dayTas-ffe had ■flepf;yeafs' ;-(/) foitK affirm he to . thofe who flood by, how blind is Man to ’
(0 aert. ^kpf nof, ba§Mir^h'wMfo,( employing him- 1 the future! Th^ Aitheriians Wonld foaf-'fhisHa'-
^lf^fii ‘duttihg up(R^ts/ ' fOEo . f i nToi v Iven in pieces with theii-Teeth^ if they Ibrtfaw
Many other Wonders are Ri^orted of how much it will idfort-’the City ; This he fotO!^
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* Apollon. Laert.
(0 Luert^ iOSuid.
(w) Laert. (n) Strata.
khd'^fwk^tliefeofl a tifftS''^veiy'Jdayi?i^qairir(g no other Suflenahc^,i^Verifeeiflg'.le’4nlfo eat, ooiiht^eitedlRefurrdCiidn from T^th- to Li^; :his'^(V) SouLgoingdoiit of his Body '^henlbeVeT-hei andHreturning-
agfrn- f •''? i I-.iii
( m) He is reported- to be ted Houfes ahd Fi©ld^o(^) wl kfo hd^iedforrhed by Verfe* Tofhis^nd tik-AihinLtns in theidity, fixth Ofympiad, vifited wil»!D a Plagucj and
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vihQn->Antipkreir^ |)ut al JShfrifoil
ksoo th& MunycbiitiPdr. orlr ’■■Umid {d holLniE The Athenians being afraid of the ^Kf^;/ Navy^' ' he tobi them, it would-not Ii>vade(tijem for many years, and tWhen it did, the Perfidnt fliouIdgroo^fteCt the leafl of their Hopes, but ddpafrrii thait they] had: igivcin their . Ad verifies iWhich wlasiiGfidfiiicdEini thwTigHtS; kt Marathon afid 'S^^taniisi : HuaPJ i. ..ca . , cb 'i: ol
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PHERECTDES.
t Laert.
{t> J Flat.
?c) Plut. Sol. {J) Laen.
fc)Tit. I.
(f) Laert. citing Phkgon. Plin. I. 52. (i) Apollon, ftift. com. I. citing Phlegon. inid. s.
^ Suid.
He ■ forefold the Lacedemonians (and Lretans alfo) the- Overthrow they Ihould receive by the Arcadians., which hapned when Eitricra- les and Archidatmts Reigned in Lacedetnon
Thefe Prediftions, (tor which the {a) Greci ans etteemed him (h) (Divine, beloved of the Gods, -(f) and put him in .the number of their Sophifts; A\Q{d) Cretans^ whofe Prophet he is Riled by { e) Sf. Laiil) Sacriheed to him as a God) were either not known, or not credited by Arijiotle., who avers, he u fed not to Prophefie of future things, but only fuch as were palt and obfeure.
For his LuRration of the City and other things he was much Honoured by the Atheni¬ ans^ who Offered him many Gifts, would* have Rewarded him with a Talent, and appointed a Ship to Tranfport hihi back to Greet : he re¬ filled their Gifts and Money, nor would accept of any thing but a little Branch of Sacred Olive, out of the Tower, wherewith ( having pro¬ cured a League betwixt the Gnojjtans and Athe¬ nians ) he returned home ^ and foon after died (/) 157 years old, or according to {g) others, 1 50, the Cretans, lay he wanted but one of 300. Xenophanes affirms he heard him when he was. 1 54 years of Age. , His Body the Lace¬ demonians kept by the direflion of the Oracle- It was taken up many years after, marked all over .with ;Chara8:erSv lyheiice arole a .Proverb concerning. abRrufe things, of Epimeni-
des He called himfelf JEaetts., others named h\m\C^res.
;He was a great Poet, and writ many things in Verfe; -the SubjeH: of his Writings? were thefe. -jfij v. ■ ;
, InitiatioTis, AifftratioM-^ i and other ;oblcuie mattefs in Verle, vul . ...
Lke_ Generation and LJbe.bgony of the Ciifetes ^;7a'Coribaint-es, 5000 Veiles.
1 r;
1 he 'Building oj Argo; and Expedition oj Ja- Ton to Colchos, 6500 Vefffs. . . , , '
of Sacrifices., in profe.-' • '
Of the Cretan Commoff-mdth.
■ ■ 0/ Minos (tW Radaipanthus. .
^ Oj Oracles and Rejponjes^ out of which *
Saint cites this Verle. ./inEpijhi. 'ad
' Tttim. tee
Kf»7lf ta-nd Sweiet, japipec dfyd.
The Cretans are always Liers.^ Evil Beajfs,
Slow-hellies. - .. .
There is extant under his ’name (iaitli X^- ertius) an EpiRle to Solon concerning tlie Or¬ ders of Government given by Minos to the Cretans: which Demetrius conceives of latter date, not written in the Cretan., but Athenian Language-, but I have met with another to this effeft. . ®
Epimenides -to Solon. '
Be of Comfort Friend for if firMtaitus were Ruler oj Athenians^ inured to Servitude., and void of Difcipl'me., hif way perhaps might continue for ever. But now he fiih.je(ls\ -not bafe Reople., but fuch as are mindjul of ^cAoE^rnfru- Sl'ions, who ajhamed of their Bondage will not brook hts Tyranny j And thd' he ,fhould fettle himfelj in the Government unmoveable, yet I 'hope it-wiU . '
not devolve tohis Children for it is hard jorfree perfons,. brought up under excellent Laws, to fuf ■ ' . > ■
fer Bondage. As for you, wander, not^ but pome to Greet to meywhere you Will Jmdno Opprgfijve-Mo; narch.JfinTravelling up and^ down you jhpujfi light upon fome of.hE Friends^- 1 fear you JMer
feme Mif chief.'] ' . . ) 03-; ■
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YlsTn' whfti affirm. Ijebiheajtl cTiitTacusC
hill comment hadiJJRiMflfteBnciin: '.Proehied and
cap. s. * Studie^y himfelf the abRrufe JBoblksbdf etdae (d) Laert. T’.km^iaflh Ao bii" US i'A\r..v . . edT
I ®)3^^.Rrahgeuthi!iig^Edrdkted 6f,hiiffV jn‘ iSyXiis bgjng .rsquh-^deWa[tEi:(
ops.^,h.isi^j6jar$fo3f hkh (f^Jf(d)OQigidrHWjii‘ ^hL ^edl^hefestyOhld M ar^d^rrdaqi^lhr Wit^ffir thflfe.
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foretold, gained him much Credit ; nthois^;
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{e) Again’ going to.£/«?g’Si.,Teiijplqi#y>^^^ he beheld iaShip withff'fffl^affeattingb.the.Ha^- ibid, hour,, he iakl tpl thqfgo pjofent^i-fp would never: rco^ Ltfe§-iK§y§nd .^h.ilR;Jiie •• (d
was fpeaking, a Storiix^r in thanfi|bfi zy.bnoVI ..itho vulp,! bdXM i&Oibi>‘hfcJlffj[m p9i^flyma, -iie^.a|^yif fbd PerdiftA, ftt; who%ffoufe he '.s- '
thencfeatsiii^chllvH^T^tffiily s whjf.hihe/cq^p^ -
not; rodio on
.xi'^i) nWDan^th'ilbt^jmRmm inot tQ-#«^ ( .j ^ ,Gf>li±)Qri6il^io;iffe’
Mm iniailhfeany;^it|appeaf^l%®ijyi|e Kings, and bad them .obey Pherecydes :[-}thi^ foftelajfirfihSifo‘-l^>’/':^.W'h'5»i mqvici ol ! ^ ’
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PHERECrDES.
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j CfCC>\ qMjh I k Chiliad.
I Laert.
** Wart. 4. 28. Secalfo S. 2.
Table ' He firft afferted the immortali¬
ty of the Soul , according to fome. k Tze- tzes affirms he was Mafter to Thales, but that fuits not with their times : That he inftrucled Pythagoras is generally acknowledged.
The manner of his death is varioufly rela¬ ted. ^Hermipptts faith, in a War betwixt the Ephejians and Magnejians, he defirous the EpheJiajjs might be ViQors, demanded of one prefent, whence he was? Who anfwer’d of Ephef/ts : Draw me then, faith he, by the leggs into the Magnefian Territory, and bid your Countrymen, after they have gained the Bat¬ tle, bury me. I am Pherecydes. This meflage he delivered *, they overcame the Magnefians, and finding Pherecydes dead, buried him honou¬ rably : Some affirm he went to Delphi, and threw hirafelf from the Corycean Mountain *, But the more general Opinion is, that he died moil miferaUy, his wh'-’e body eaten up with Lice (Pliny faith, w ‘h Serpents which broke out of his Skin ) whereby when his Face became deform’d, he avoided and refil¬ led the Sight of his Acquaintance ^ when any one came to vifit him (as Pythagoras did ) ;jnd demanded how he did, he putting cut his Finger at the Key -Hole , confumed by his Difeafe, ffiewed them the condition of his whole Body : Saying the skin
ffieweth : Which words the Philofophers take in an ill Senfe : The Delians affirm the God of that place lent this Dileale to him out of an¬ ger, becaufehe hoafted muchof his own wif- dom to his Difciples, laying, if he fhould ne¬ ver Sacrifice to any God, he Ihould lead a life no lefs plealant than thofe that offered Heca¬ tombs. buried him i his Tomb car¬
ried thislnlcription
Of wifdom [ comp rife the utmoji hound-, U(ho jurther would be fatisfied, muji found ' Pythagoras, of Greeks the moji renowned.
Some affirm he was the firft that writ in Prole, which others aferibe to Cadmus. He writ Heptamuchos or Thocrajia j perhaps the fame with his Theology, ten Books containing the Origin and Succeffion of the Gods (if not miftaken for the Theogony of the Younger Pherecydes) an obfeure dark work, the Allego¬ ries whereof Ifidore cited by Clemens Alexandri- ////y conceives taken from the Prophecy of Cham.
Concerning this Book there is extant an ,E- piftle under the name of Pherecydes, but may well be fufpefted to be Ipurious.
Pherecydes to Thales.
‘ TX Tell may you die whenever your fetal ‘ W hour arrives ^ as foon as I receiv’d your ‘ Letter I fell Sick,was over run with Lice, and ‘ had a Fever-, whereupon I gave order to my ‘ Servants , that as foon as I was Buried they ‘ fhould carry the Book to you^ if you, with the ‘ reft of the Wife Men approve it, publilh it -, if ‘ you approve it not,publifti it not,Tor me it doth ‘ notpleafe -, there is no certainty in it : whatfo- ‘ ever the Theologift faith, youmuft underftand ‘ otherwife ^ fori write in Fables, conftrain’d ‘ by my Dileafe I have not admitted of any ‘ Phyfician or Friend,but when they came to the door, and ask’d how it was was with me, put- ‘ ting my Finger out at the Key-hole, I fhew- ‘ ed them how defperate il 1 Ivvas, and belpoke ‘ them to come on the Morrow to the Funeral ‘ of Pherecydes.
There was another of this name of the feme Ifland, an Aftrologer : There are' more menti¬ oned by Suidoi.
I
THE
6o _ _ Part II.
H I ST O R Y
OF ,
philosophy
Cfje ftconH
Containing the lonicli Philofophers.
ANAXIMANDER.
CHAP. I.
Of his Life*
Lmt. p'cf.
Hilofophy bad a twofold beginning ^ one from Anaximander^ another from Tythagoras, Anaximander was Dif- ciple to f hales ^ whence that Phi- lolophy was called lon 'ick - Thales being an Ionian^ for he was of Miletus. Pythagoras was Difciple to Pherecydes that King of Philo- fophy called, from the Place where he taught, Italick. Thales was fucceeded by Anaxi¬ mander.^ Anaximander by Anaximenes.^ Anaxi¬ menes by Anaxagoras .^Anaxagoras by Archelaus^ in whom ( as Plutarch Taertim and others affirm ) it ended , Socrates ( the Scholar of Archelaus) introducing Morality.
Anaximander a Milefian, b Countryman , Companion and * Kinfman of Thales •, was hb
. Difciple alfo, and SuccelTor in the Propa-
e strab. lib. i-gation of his DoSlrine-, Son of Praxiades{coi- ruptly called by ' fome Praxidamus) born the ^ Clem. Alex. ^ear of the 42d Olympiad. ^ He flou-
rifhed mofl in the time oPPolycrates.^ Tyrant of Samos.
s He demonflrated the Compendium of Geo- * Strap, lib. r. metry * being next Homer., the firft Mafter of that Science •, he firft fet forth a Geogra- phick Table , of which Laertius is to be un- derftood, who affirms, He defgn’d the Circum. ferencc of the Sea and Land.
>> In the 50th Olympiad he found out the Obliquity of the Zodiack, that is (faith Pliny) he opened the Gates of all things, i He invented' the Onmon, and fet up the firft in an qperi place at Lacedamon, k He found out the .$qui- noflial Solfticesand Horologies *, > He framed iiorofeopes to denote^he Topicks and .S)qui-
b Cic. acad.
quaft. 4.
« Suid.
Strom. T, fLaert
Said.
8.
i Laert.
li Suid.
i Laert.
noxes i vvhence m Salmafius conceives the .
ufe of his Dial was only to delineate the Tropick euitl and Equinoflial points •, that they did not ferve to diftinguifh the hours or twelve parts of the day, he proveth, becaufe the very name
in that fenfe or the divifion of the day in¬ to twelve equal parts, was not known a long time after.
" He advifed the Lacedamonians to quit . «
their City and Houfes, and to lie armed in the , A open Field, foretelling an Earth-quake which threw down the whole City, and tore away a piece of the Mountain Taygetus.
® As he fung, the Boys ufed to deride him, ^ whereupon he faid, We muft learn to fing better for the Boys.
Of his Editors are remembred Anaximenes and Parmenides.
Of his Writings, thefe.
Uifl Of Nature. This Treatiie
perhaps Laertius means, who faith he digefted his Opinions into Commentaries, which Book ^ fell into the hands of Ayolhdorus the Athe-i nian.
rSjf
rise* TaK
Of the Sphere., tnith other things*.
He was, according to Apollodorus old the fecond year of the 58th Olympiad, and died fooa after.
CHAP.