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ARISTIPFVS.
THE CTRENAICK SE CT.
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Ariftippus^ Qountry and "Parents,
The eftimation which Philolbphers had'time caufed it exceedingly to muitipiy, whiUt daily gain’nd among the Grecians about this every Profeflbr ambitious to be’ held
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Wiferthan hisMafter, and teaching, fomething new, defired to have the Honour to be Author oi & Se^t.
The Succeflion of the lo/iick Ebllofophy, which before Socrates wds fingle: after i^im was divided into many Schools^ whereof fome Were bht of fhott cbntinuancoi ^ others had longer ruCOeffion. Of the lefs durable were the
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fo called from the places where the Prbfeflbrs flourifhed. Others of longer Succeflion^ the
A further diflike-of this CQurfe Socrates expref fed, when fending him twenty min£^
he returned it, laying, his Dxmon jtjou/c/ not jnfffr him to take it»
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atetic. St'oick.
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We (hall firft dilpatch thole Which, were of Ihorteft continuance^ whether that they were founded upon le{sReaTon,fiand were in Jhort time broken.^ its ^ Cicero laith, and quite extinU by the firength and. Arguments of the others •, or rhat being 'inftituted and founded in more obfcure ^arts they were not fo lading as thole which were prolefs’d in the mod flourifhing City fo Athens.
Ariftippus a Difciple of after his ^
death, returned home into his Country at Cyrene Africa., ftom whehce the Doftrine which
LEaving Socrates, . ^ he went Athcn.it/;n.
he lived with , more freedom^ and -Luxty 1 2.. than before: i^nt exhortations td'! re* '
claim him, frequent but fruitlels,'* and. to the fame end publifhed that difcourle: which we find in Xenophon. . Here he became , acquainted with the famous Corinthian Cqurtezan, ftAthcn. who came thither yearly at tfie Feaft QfJVeptunes * and was as confbntly frequented by for whole lake ^ hermefianax fmh, .he took a*
Voyage to Gm/b (mentioned among his Apo-^^' thegms.)
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To Corinth Love the ^renean led.
Where he enjoyed Lah bed-.
No Art the fnbtil Aridippus knew. \ , -l By which the power of Love he might efcbeic.
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his Scholars retained Had the name of Cyrenaick. i He was Son of Aretades, ^ Cyrene.
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t Whild he was upon his Voyage, to Corinth jh Laos'. great Temped arofe, whereat j he was much troubled: one of the Palfengers laying unto him, we ordinary people are not afraid, but you fhilo- fophers fear (bras * 2Elian,are you afraid like then people ?) t cur Souls, anlwered he, are not of^°' ,
equal value,'*' you hazard a wickedandunhppy Itfef I Felicity and Beatitude.
+ To thole who blamed him for . frequenting f Laert.
Lais, I pojfefs her, faith he,- not fheme-, fLais" Athea delpr. in emulation of Fhryne gave admittance to all ‘ 3* forts of People, Rich and Ppor, whereupon Ari-^ flipptls reprehended by his Servant for bedowing lomuch on her, who entertained the
Cynick gratis, I give her Money, faith he, t^t I may enjoy her, not that others tnay not. Dioge- 1 Athen.«/e//«. nes reproached him for frequenting the company ofL^i^, Fzym^, Ariftippus, you and L cony erf e with the fame Woman, either give over, or be like
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How he went to Athens, and heard SocmtQS.
From CyreneAriJjipptts vtent HiAto Athens, invited by the fame of t Socrates, concerning whom he fell .into difeourfe with Ifchomachus, meeting him cafually at the Olympick Games, and' enquiring what dijputes they were wherewith So- QizWi, prevailed fo tnuch upon the young Men,he receiv'd from him fome little feeds and fcatte rings' j a Cynic : Do you think it abfurd, faith he, to dvoell thereof, wherewith he was Jo pajjionately affelled, UnaHoufe, wherein others lived before, .or to Sail that he grew pale and lean, till, to aJJ'wage his fer- in a Ship that hath carrid, other Fajfengers?. It Is
vent thirf, he took a Voyage to Athens, and there drunk at the Fount din, J'attlsfyinghmf elf with the ¥ erf on, his difeourfe andFhilofophy, the end where¬ of was to know our evils, and to acquit our felves
• C/V. it Nat.d^ ^ ArijiotleFaid, Fhilojophy doth harm
Veor.' ' to thofe who mifinterpret things well faid. Af iltip-
\Ck. dc CK 3* difputes of Socrates, aflerted Pleafure to be the
ultimate end wherein all happinels doth confid.
• Athcn-De/^n."^ i//x Life was agreeable to the Opinion, vihich he
12. employed in Luxury, fweet Unguents, rich Gar¬
ments, Wine and Womens, maintain’d by a courfe as different from the Precepts and Practice oi' So¬ crates as the things themfelves were. For, not- withdanding he had a good Edate (and three Country Seats) f he fiilt of the Socratick Difci-
t Lam. pies took Money for Teaching. Which Socrates
no tnore abfurd to affeU a Woman whom others have enjoyed. ■ ^
At Mgina he continued .till the death of So.- crat'es, as (befides the tedimony of. t. Flato )' ap- . peareth by this ^ Epiftle of his written upon ♦ in ph&dom. that occafion. ' ' ^ Socrauc.
Of the death of Soentes, I and Cleombrotus ‘ have received information, and that when I. might have efcaped from the eleven Officers, he faid he would not,unlefs he was acquitted by Law, for that were as much as in him lay to betray his Country.
Aly Opinion is, he being unjufily conmittedjje tnight have got his Liberty any way, conceiving, t hat ail which he could do ill or inconfiderateiy tmtji be jujl.
From whence again I blame him not, as jf • he had done ill even in this. Tou write me word that all the ft'ietids and Difciple s oj Socrates have left A-
obferying, asked him how he came to have fo-A\c^\\s,oin of fear the like ffiould befall any of you-, much j hereply’d, how came you to have fo little ? ' it is well done-, and we being at prsj'ent at iEgina
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CHAP. IV. His In jilt lit ion cf a SeTi.
iftippus
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returning at length to his own Country^ Cyrene, profefled Philofophy there, and Inftituted a SeH called ^ Cyrenaick ‘from the place; by feme t Uedonick., or vblup- « tuoas'from the DoHrine. a They who follow¬ ed the Inftitutibn of ArijUppis.^ and w'ei^e cal- kd Cyre‘mick jh&\^ thus, ''
They.'fejefted Fhyjick and natural difquifitions from the : foeming incorhprehenfibilty -thereof. R:J^gick they handled becaufe of its great uleful- *cels. But Meleager and Clitomachus affirm they; ^d^lpifed both Phyfick and Diale£lick alikCjas un- '■ *'ufefal; for that without thefc, a Man wHoh^th “learned what things are good, what evil,'' and able to dilcourfe well, and to fliake oft" Super- ftition and the fear of Death.
Se£l. 1. Of Judgment and Judicatories.
b ^ I ^Hey held that theSenJes inform not alway^ X truty-^ • that nothing exirinfecal can be per Si^n. li. 4. eeived.thofe things only can be pcrceived^which are felt by inward touch.^ as grief and pleafureyi?ither j -* know we wha^ohur anything is^nor, what found' it makes but only that we feel our felves affeQed after fuch 4 manner h ‘ • that paffions are compre- Jyenfive.^ that objeHs not comprehenfive. » That nothing judgeth but by interiorpromotion.^ and the ftidgment of true and falfe confifis of inward touch.
, ' Spxtus Empericus more fully. They aflert
that Paffions or Affeftion's are the Judges and -the only things- t^t may comprehend, and not fallacious.^ bilt of thofe things which caufe Paf Cons, there is nothing which is comprehenfi- ble, or that may not deceive us. For, that we are made white, or affefted with fweet, may be faid exprefly and firmly, but that the thing which pufeth this affeftion is white or fweet, cannot in like manner be aflerted. For i t is poffi- ble that We be affe£led with whitenefs from a thing that’ is not white, and with fweetnefsffom a thing that is not fweet j as to him who is dim-fightedor hath theyellow-jau'hdice,all things feem yellow to one, duskifii to the other, and he who pincheth his eye, thinkethhe fees things double, he who is mad fancies two Thebes\two Suns, in all thefe, they that are fo affefted, to vyit, with yellownefs or duskifhnefs, or du¬ plicity, is true, but that the thing which mo- veth them is yellow or duskilh, or double, is conceived to be falfe : fo it is mofl: confonant toreafon, that we comprehend nothing more than our own paffions. For we muft hold that the things feen are either the paffions themfelves, or the caufes of thofepaffions ^ if we fay our paffions are the things feen, we muft likewife affirm all things feen, to be true and compre- henlive ; if we fay the things feen are the cau¬ fes of thole paffions, ive muft confels all things feen to be falle and incomprehenfible. For that Paffion which hapneth to us, Iheweth us its felf and nothing more, fo that to fpeak truly, the Paffion or Affection it lelf is the only thing that is apparent to us, and for that rea-
lon, in their proper affections none; err,
the extetoai object, all. T'he firft are co.tnpr^^- live, the fecond incomprehenlive, the SfUi'J)Q- ing weak in the difeernment thereof^ by J^fon of places, intervals, motions, mutaUbnaoiiSW many other caufes. 1 ■ ...an , .. v’i.
Hence, they . aflert, that. thbre is^not in any one common thing- which judgeth, huff thet impofe common names on the judgments i commonly name white and fweet, but fome- thing common that is white .and fweet they have nor, for every Man apprehends his own af¬ fection. Now whether the fame affection hap¬ neth to any one, and to him that is next him from white, neither is he able to lay, as not receiving the affection of the .other, neither ,c^ the other that is next him fay, as iiot receiyi:^ his affection. There being therefore no com¬ mon affectiop in us, it were a rafti thing to thatwhatfeever feemeth fuch to me, fe;emeth alfo filch to him that is next me 5 for perhaps my conftitutigp is fiich as to be whitei^d from that which externally incurreth, anotnerh^th his Senfe fo ordered, as thatji? affected other- wife. That therefore whicla is feen and appo^J- eth is not common.
That by reafon of the differing conftitutions of the fenfe we are not moved alike nor in the fame manner, is manifeft frpra thofe who h^ve the Jaundice., and thofe that are Fur-blind., and thofe that are affeHed according to Nature. For as from the fame object, fome are fo affected as to be Black.^ others Red., othcisTiThite : fo is it likewife confonant to Reafon, that they who are affected according to Nature, by reafon of the different conftitution of Senfes, are not mo¬ ved alike by the fame things, but one way the White, another way tile Black, another way he whofe eyes are^Blue, another way he whole eyes are black, whence we impofe common names on things, having our felves proper and particular affections.
Sect. 2. Of the End, cr chief Good,
TO thefe affertions (continueth Sextus Em¬ pericus) concerning the Judicatories, a- greeth what they aflert concerning Ends.
Of affections, fome are pleafant, lome harfh and troublefome, fome mean : the harfh and trou- blefome are ill, whofe end is grief ; the pleafant, good, whofe end, which cannot be deceived, is pleafure : the mean are neither good nor ill, whofe end is neither good nor ill, which is an af¬ fection between pleafure and grief Affections therefore are the judges and ends of all things, and we live, fay they, obferving evidence and li¬ king, evidence in the reft of the affections, liking in pleafure.
Laertius faith, they aflert two paffions or af¬ fections, Grief and Fleafure : Pleafure, a fofc fiiiooth motion. Grief, a harfh motion. One Pleafure differeth not from another Pleafure, nor is one Pleafure fweeter than another Plea- fure : this Pleafure is coveted by all living crea¬ tures, the other fliunned.
They aflert coporeal pleafure to be our ulti¬ mate end, as Fanatius faith in his Book of Sells, not cataftematick, permanent pleafure, which confifteth in privation of Grief and a quiet void of all difturbance, which Epicurus held.
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The End difFereth from Beatitude^ tor the End is fome particular pleatiirc : Beatitude is that which confifieth of all particular plealures, wherein are included both the paj\ and future. Again, particular pleafure is expetible in it > felf Felicity, not in it felt^ but for particular pleafures.
That Pleafure is our chief end is manifeft, in that from our firft infancy, without any inltru- ftion of others, we naturally aim thereat, and having obtained it, feek nothing elle. More- over, we avoid not any thing fb much as its con¬ trary, grief
Pleafure is good, though proceeding from the mod fordid dilhoneft thing, as Hippobotus in his Book of for, although the adfion be dif- honeft, yet the pleafure thereof is expetible in it felf, and good.
hidolence., which Epicurus held, they edeem hot pleafure, nor want of pleafure, grief, for both thefe confilt in motion, but indolence and want of pleafure confirts not in Motion, for In¬ dolence is like the date of a lleeping Man.
They hold, that fome Men may not defire pleafure, through perverfity of mind.
All Spiritual Pleafures and Pains arife not from corporeal pleafures and pains ; for from the fimple prolperity of our Country or our felf w^e are affected with Joy.
But neither the remembrance of pad goods, nor expeQation of future compleat pleafure’ as Epicurus thought, for by time and expefta’ t Atben. deipn. tion the motion of the Soul is diffolved. t Plea- fure, according to Arijiippus, is i^o/oxesv©- conjifleth only in one part of time^ the prefent ; for the remembrance of pad pleafures, or ex- peffation of the future, is vain and frivolous, and nothing appertaineth to Beatitude ; but that only is good which is prefent. With thofe pleafures which he received heretofore, or diall receive hereafter, Arifippus faid, he Was no¬ thing at all moved, the fird being gone, the other not yet come, and what it will prove •ySl.var.Hift. when It IS come, is uncertain. Hence ^ hear- lA 14. 6. gued, that Men ought not to be follicitous ei¬ ther about things pad or/uture, and that not to be troubled at fuch things is a fign of a con- dant clear Spirit. He alfo advifed to take care only for the prefent day, and in that day, only of the prefent part thereof, wherein fomething was done or thought : for he laid, the prefent as only in our power, not the pad or future, the one being gone, the other uncertain whe¬ ther ever it will come.
Neither do pleafures confid meerly in fimple fight or hearing:, for we hear with delight thofe who counterfeit. Lamentation, and thofe who lament truly, we hear with difpleafureJ This privation of Pleafure and Grief they called mean fates.
The Pleafures of the Body are much better than thofe of the Soul, and the Pains or Griefs thereof much worfej for which reafbn thofe who offend aHually, are mod grievoufly pu- nifhed.
To grieve is more unnatural to us, to de¬ light, more natural; for which reafbn, much more care is requifite fbr the ordering of one than of tlie other , yet, many times we reject things which effect pleafure, as being grievous.
fo that the concurrence of Pleafures which ef- fecteth Beatitude, is very difficult.
Moreoj^r they hold, that every wife Man doth not live pleafahtly, nor every wicked Man unpleafantly, but fo for the mod part : for it is enough that a Man be affeffed and reduced by incidence of one fingle pleafure.
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that Grier is not ede^ledby every ill but bv the^"Y^-4' unexpected and unforefeem. tliit one mL is more grieved than another.
They afferr, that Riches are efficient caufes of pleafure, yet not expetible in themfelves.
Sect. Of Virtue. ^
^ A ^ .S^d confideth in Eledfure, Virtue ■ ^
X X It felx is only liudable, asbeingcin ef- * deOfttci ficientcaufe of Pleafure. ' 3-
+ Nothing is juft, honeft, or dFlhoiiUl Ky, , , AW but by Lm and ajhm : ’ aS'good *
Man will do nothing that is evil, becaufe of the. cenlure or elteem which would fall upon his • actions, and ^ that fuch a one is wife. .... • o ^ r t ■
is a good, yet not ettpetible !in it reads HC but for the lakeof thofe thingsjsyhich pro- doubdels ceed from it. ■ ^ there is a de-
A Friend is to be embraced for the ufe we may have of him, as the Body cheridieth every part th^eof as long as it remaineth found.
Of Virtues, fome are in the unvoi/e.
Corporeal exercife conduceth to the acquifiti- on of Vertue. ^ ^
A wife JUan is not fiibjeEl: to Envy, Love, or ’ Superjhtion, for all thele proceed from the va¬ nity of Opinion : but he is fubject to Grief or tear, as being
C H A P. Vd . .V
How he went to Diony fins his Court
A Bout this time Lionyfup, the. Sicilian Ty¬ rant fiourifhed, ^ to whom reforted many Philofophers, amongd the red Ariftip^ pus invited by his Sumptuous Magnificence! ^ t Diony f us asked him the reafon of his com-* r.cy. ing : heanfwered, To give what I have, and to' receive lohat I have not, .or, as others, when I wanted voifdom, 1 went to Socrates, now I want Money, I come to you. He foon infinuated in¬ to the favour of Dyonyfius, for he could con¬ form himfelf to every place, time, and perfon, act any part, condrue whatfbever hapned to the bed : and thus enjoying prefent Pleafure, never troubled himfelf fbr the abfent. As Horace.
Every Condition, Habit, and Event, iRd/; Aridippus fuits with all Content,
Of his Compliance with Dionyfius’s Humour there are thefe Indances, t Diony fius at a Fead f laert, commanded j that all fhould put on Purple Robes : Flato refilled, faying,
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1 will not with a formal Robe difgrace^
My felf who am a Man of majily Race,
But Arijiippifs took it, and beginning to Dance, faid,
If it come piire^ a mirthful Feaji Soever corrupts a rnodefl Breaji.
^ Another time fuing to Dionyjlus in the be¬ half of his Friend, he would not hear him ^ at laft he threw himfelf at his feet, and his Peti on was granted ; for which being reprehended, Blame not me, faith he, but Dionyfius, who/e ears are in his feet.
t Didnyjius fliewed him three Courtezans, bid¬ ding him take his choice ; he leading them all three away, faid, Paris -was punifhed for pre f erring one before ihf other two. Bur, having brought them to the door, he diliuift them, as ready to contemn as accept : whereupon Strato ’ ( or as others Plato ) told, him, Tou only can . xnearMd Garments and Rags,
- . they adniired him that he would wear a thread¬ bare arid a rich Cloak with equal de-
^ corum, accommodating himlelf to both.
When Dionyfius did fpit upon him, he took it patiently .* for which being reproved, fifh ermen faid'he, fufferthemjelve tobewet allover that they may catch [ auGm ^ a Gudgeon, ana fhall I be troubled at a little Spittle, who mean to \ Which be. .take ^ finim ? ing pronoun-
equivocal 5 for, jiKtv^ figntfiech a Fifh like a Gudgeon, and po©; a Tyrant ; as I find in a M S. Lexicon communicated by my learn¬ ed Iriend Mr. /3a«p©- 0 Tygo'pp©', 0 /xfluf j and
again, BAvavty’^vf 0 ly (read /3ajp©-}
confirmed by deipn. 7. lo.
♦ Lasrt, I begged Money of Dionyfius, who faid
to him, you told -me a wife man wanted no thing: give me, and we will talk of this after¬ ward. When Dionyfius had given it him, ’Noio, faith he, you fee J do not want.
By this complailance he gained fo much upon Dionyfius, xYzi he had a greater efteem for him than all the reft of the Philofophers, tho’’ fome- times he Ipoke fo frceiy to' Dionyfius, that he incurf d his difpleafure. '
^ To Dionyfius risking why Philofophers haunted the Gates of Rich Men, but Rich Men not thofe of Philofophers : Becaule, faith he, the one knows what he wants, the other not t To Dionyfius, urging him to treat of Phi- lofophy: It ‘is ridicicloiis, Iriith he, if you learn of me what it is, to tfich me when it fhould be faid. Whereat Dionyfius difpleafed, bad him take the loweft place, which he did quietly, faying, Pou have a mind to inake this Seat more
* Athev. detpv. Honourable-. * The next day the Tyrant asked citing He- bim him what he thought of that place wherein
he then late, 'in refpeO: of that wherein he fate the night before? He anfwered, they were a- liketbhim : to day, faith he, becaulelleftit, it is contemned, whrit yefterday was efteemec the moft Honourable, that where I lit to day efteemed moft honourable, w’hich yefterday without me was, was accounted the loweft.
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t Being asked why Dionyfius fell out with t tiaert
lim, he anfwered, tor the lame reafon he fril- eth out with others. y
^ Dionyfus^s faying, (out of Sophocles diS Plu- * tarch aflirms, who alcribes this to Zeno.)
Who e'er goes to a Tyrant, he A Servant is, tho' he came free.
He immediately anlwered,
INo Servant is if he came freCi
Dionyfius offering Rlato a great fumm of Mo¬ ney, which he refufed : ArijVippus being at the fame time in the Court (oY Dionyfius, faid, Dio¬ nyfius beftows his Liberality upon good grounds, to us who ask much, he giveth little, to Plato, who requireth nothing, he offereth much.
t Another time Helicon of Cyzicus, one oft fut. i\t* Plato’s Friends, having foretold an Ediple of the Sun, which when it fell out accordingly, he was much honoured for it : Ariftippus jelling with other Philofophers, faid, he could Ibretel a ftranger thing ; they demanding what it was:
I Prognofticate, faith he, that Plato and Diony¬ fius will ere long be at variance, and lb it hap- ned.
C H A P. VI.
His ZEmulatori.
This favour which he found with Diony* fws, was perhaps the occalion, for which he was maligned by the reft of the Philofophers, amongft whom was,
Xenophon, Who out of ill will to him, pub- • Laert. lilhed the t difeourfe between him zxA Socr at about Pleafure. ^
t Plato like wife, through the fame difafte- 1 dcLon tacitly reprehends him, in Phedone, for being in JEgina at the time of Socrates his Death, t Plato being in Dionyfius his Court, when he was there, reproved his fumptuous life ; Whereupon Arif ippus asked him, whe-‘ ther he thought Dionyfius a good , Man or not :
Plato affirmed, he thought him good : Yet he,
Arif ippus, liveth much more fumptu-v oully 5 therefore it is not incompatible with goodnels.
t Phxdo likewife feemed to deride him, de- 1 Laat. manding who it was that fmell’d lb llrong of Unguents: It is I, unhappy Man that I am, an¬ fwered Ariftippus, and the Perfian King, who is more ijnhappy than I. But as other things are not the worle for this, neither is a Man. ^ A • Laert. Curfe on thofe effeminate Perfons who brought t Scwc.aie if, ;e. a Scandal upon fo good a thing. Ac. ckm. Akn,
t JEf chines alfo and he were fometimes at t laen. difference ; Once, after fome falling out be¬ twixt them, Ariftippus faid to him, lliall we ' not be Friends, fliall we not give over Fool- . ing? Or, do you expebt fome Body fhould kick us into kindnefs? Willingly, anfwered^^
Mfehines. Now, faith Ariftippus, remember, , >
that though I am the Elder,' yet I yielded firft.
Mfehines reply *d, and juftly, for you are better than I ; I begun the enmity, you the reconcilement .
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ARISTIF PVS.
Dt ira c»bib. ^Plutarch relates it thus ^ being fallen out with JEfchines^ he met one who asked him, Where ii now your old PriendJl)ip^ki\Wi'^p\is^ It is afleep^ faith he \ but I 'will awake it : and going ftraight to Ef chines^ Am I fo unhappy, faith he, andfo inconfiderahle in your ejieem, not to deferye Correttion ? JEJchines aniwered. It is nothing Jirange, that exceeding by 'Nature in all things,, you Jhould fir ft know what is fit to be done.
Antijlhenes is to be numbred -alfo amongft thofe, who were difpleafed at his manner ot Life, as appeareth by an Epiftle of his to that eftefb, extant amongft the Socratick Epiftles, fo which Arifiippus returned this Anfwer.
f Socrath. Ififl. 9- • Wonically anfwering a former letter
f Ariftippus to Antifthenes.
but with Mealmen and ViUuatlers, Juch as yf//nic.illy A\eat and Prink at ^ Kthsews without fraud, fuch rts fell thick Cloaths in cold weather, and fuch asfei-v 'efi Simon, thefe ai'e not Riches.
Diogenes the example of his Mafter
Antifihenes in deriding Ariftippus f calling him the hurt-Spamel. As Arijiipti pked by, fJ/V-’ genes bufied about wafhing Herbs, called to him, r2iy ing,If you had learned todothus,you needed not have followed the Courts of Princes and you fvA he, if you had known how to converfe with Alen, needed hot to have wafted Herbs j thus exprefled by i Horace. ' ,
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E are,AnWi^pus,unhappy beyond medfure-, how can we be otherwife, living with a of Antifthenes. 'Pyrant, daily eating and drinking delicioujly, per¬ fumed with choice ji Vngudnts, attired in rich loofe Garments brought from Tarentum; And none will deliver me from the cruelty of 'Dionyims,whode- tains me, not as arude perfonfiut one that is verji in Socratick learning f applying me {as I faid)
with Meat', Unguents, Garments, and the like j fearing neither the judgments of Gods nor Men. And now the misfortune is much increafed •, He hath bejiowed on me three Sicilian 'Virgftns of extraordinary beauty, and many U ten fils of Sil¬ ver and when this Man will give over doing fuch things I know not, you do well therefoi'e to be concerned for the m if cries of others in the requital whereof I rejoice in your happinefs, and return you thanks • Earewel.
The Figs which you have, lay up againfl winter, and theCiQt2Ln mealfor thefe things feem to be bet- 1 ^rLdfn'* than, t riches-, wafh and drink fif the fountain ^j^’EnneacrunuSizym- the fame Garment in winter indead of as in fummer,and tharfiordid,as becomes afreeper-
cbf fon living under the Athenian Democracy:7lj'_/br the . knew as foon as Veame into the City and I- mswin^.fil^tid goverkd by a Monarch, Ifhouldfuffer thofe Epidie , Avft ills of which you write to me-fNow the Syracufians, Agrigentines,Geloans, Sceptwe. compajfionately admire me-, but \ for my madnefs
coming inconfiderately to thefe unfeemly things ft and read \kv wijh this curfe to fall upon me, that I may never J'i tKiovftis be quit of thefe evilsU becaufe being of years of P® diferetion, and pretending to wifdom, I would not
" "'^'"'undergo hunger and cold, nor cont'emn glory, nor wear a long beard -,1 loill fend you fome great white. Lupines to eat, after you have ailed Hercu¬ les to the Boys -, of which things it is reported
_ _ _ ^ you efieem it net abfurd to dijiourfc and write :
thing with ad- But if any. man fhouldf peak of Lupines to Dio- miration, nyfi'us, 1 think it were again ft the rules of Ty- ’• Of the reft,go and difeourfe toi/h Simon Ctompaffion. Leather-dreffer, than whom you efieem nothing
t Read r2f more wife •, for I am not allowed familiarity with
[xa.vid.^
-riet, AS
lU-Avliu- * Pei'hap!
iR ).
1^7
me, will be fet at liherty,neither put to death,nor * The Letter fined, though they were very near death, leems to be not Antifthenes ktiow lhave faved 'his Frknds,'ffiljjf^^fi.^ ^ he loves not to converfe tknh
fo.
An-
' tiftlier.es and Tyrants, this meant ire*
rrovNi Vorice a ridiculous and acute Irony 5 for
iignifieth to look on a
Socratk pift.
E-
i 1.
Artificers, becaufe 1 live under obedience to others.
Notwitltftanding this jarring betwixt them^ Ariffipp'i^ vj SiS nothing' backward in employing the Intereft he had at Court, for Ibme friends of Antifthenes, to prefefve tliem from death as this Letter of his to Antifthenes doth ma- nifeft.
\The Locrian^cz/^^AIty/ of uDomyou icrite to
i
Diog. Oh herbs if Ariftippus could have dikd.
The Company of Kings he had declin'd.
Arift* he who derides me, had he witfo ufe The Company of Kings, would herbs ref ufe,
I mine own fefier j thou the Peoples art.
My choice is of the better, nobler part,
I by a King maintain^ d, on Horfeback ride.
Thou by the mcanefi people art fupplfd.
Than thofe that do maintain thee thou art lefs •
Tet to want nothing vainly do ft profefs.
^ Theodor ifs in his Book of Seffs, reproached • tao-t. Arifiippus , and Alexis the Goimick Foet, in t Athn. Deipn, his Galateahx'm^Qth.m a Servant Ipeaking thus of one of his Difciples ;
My Alafler young on Rhetorick firfi intent.
Next to Philofophy his Study bent :
A Cyrenatan liv''d at Athens then,
Nani'd AhFi\ppus,juf}ly firfi of Alen, • *
Efleenfdfor fubtlety and Luxury,
A Talent him my Mafier gave to be ' '
His Scholar, but- of Arts he none wal taught.
Save only Cookery \ that awey he brought.
C H A P. VI.
His Apothegms. - i
OF Apothegms (in ^ which kind hewas con-» s«/V.
ceived to have anacutenels beyond all the other, Philofophers,) thefe are remembred. ■ t He once gave fifty drachms for a Patrrfge,!’ for which being reproved by another j you would have given a Penyfor A, faith he,which the other granting j fo much, faith he, are fifty drachms to me. .
Being demanded what was the greateft be¬ nefit' he. had received by Philofophy,^ he an- fwered ,,To converfe freely with all Men.
Being reproached for li/ing high 5 'if Alqgni- ficence were a 5'/;v,faith he, it would not be'pra- Hifed.tipon days of heftivaf to the Gods.
To one who asked wherein Philofophers excelled- other Men j Though all Taws were a- bolifhed,Fi\i\\ he, we- Jhould lead the fame Lives.- Being demanded how tiie Learned differ from the unlearned, he aniwered, cu Horfes unbackt from fuch as are well managed^
Going into the houfe of a Courtezan, a young Man of the Company bliiflied, to whom he
S laid.
Lmt)
o
ARIS T IP PVS. pART-iy^
faid,If is not ill to go in^but not to be able to come out.
To one who defired him to refolve a Rid¬ dle Thou fool^ faith he, why wouldji thou have me^ ref olve that which unrefolved finds us fuch entertainment ?
He faid, it is better to be a Beggar than tin- learnedjforone wants only Riche s^ the other Hu~ manity.
Being reviled, he went aloof ofF^ he that reviled, asked why he fled ; Becaufe faith hsyo fpeak ill is in your power yiot to hear is in mine. .
One faying, he law Philofophers at the gates of rich Men,WP^/7/ of the Sick i but no Man would for that reafon choofe to be fick rather than a Fhyfician.
To one who boafled he learned much •, As ihey^ faith he, who eat and exercife much^ are not better than thofe wiho eat only to fatisfie Na¬ ture^ neither are they Learned who make large ^ hut profitable Colleblions.
An Oratour pleading for him, and gaining the Caufe, asked him. What are you the better for Socrates ? So much, faith he, cw that I make good thofe things which you alledge d in tny defence. He inftruHed his Daughter Arete to contemn all that is too much.
To one who demanded what* his Son would be the better for Learning ^ If in nothing elfe, in this, faith he, that in the Theatre one ftone jhall not fit upon another.
Of one who would have preferred his Son to him, he demanded 500 Drachms, Tor fo much, laith the other, I can buy a Slave j Do fo, an- ? Plut. de puir. Iwered he, and then you will have two(fyour Son, educ. and him you buy.)
He faid he took money of his friends, not to make ufe of it himlelf, but to let them know the right ufe of it.
Being reproached for entertaining an Oratour to plead his Caufe; and when I would feafi, faith he, 1 hire a Cook.
To one who boafled of his fwimming, Are not you ifhamed, faith he, to glory in the proper¬ ty of a Dolphin.
Being demanded wherein the Learned differ’d from th^Unlearn’d ^ Send them naked to Jiran- gers,{'3.\th he, and you Jhall fee.
To one who boafled he could drink much without being drunk ^ So, faith he, can a Mule.
Being blam’d that he took Money being the Difciple of Socrates, and jufily, faith he. Tor Socrates, when they fent him Wheat and Wine, took a little for his prefent ufe, and fent back the refl, the chief of ailthe Axh^m^nswere his Turveyors,mine T\MsMy^^'i,,amerc€nary Servant.
Being reprov’d by Flato for buying a great quantity of Fifh j They cofi me, faith he, but an Obolus, would not youhave given fo much for them} To which Tlato affenting, It is not that 1 am prof ufe then, faith he, but that you are covetous.
Simon Pantler to Dionyfius, a Phrygian ; a Man of ill conditions , brought him to his houfe paved curioully with marble ^ Arifiip- pus fpits in his face , whereat the other growing ‘ angry, J could nut yf;?i/,faithhe, a fitter place.
Being demanded how Socrates died j As I icould wifh to do, faith he.
Tolyxenus the Sophifl coming to his houle,and feeing there Women and a great feaft, reproved
him. Ariftippus gave him way, and after a little paufe,^;;// you dine with ?ne, faith he > whereto he conlenting;l'P’/6^ continues he,doyou reprove me ? ’T/> not the feafi, but the cofi which you con¬ demn.
His Servant being upon a Journey, weary with carrying of Money Throw away, laith hit,what is too much, and carry as much as you can.
t He bad his flaves aw y his Money throw, t ttorat. s.it. Be c aufe ore -charg'd with weight they went too fiow.'^’'^'
^ Being at Sea, and underflanding the own- * inert ck ers of the VelTel were Pyrates, he took his /w. Money and counted it, then let it fall into the Sea, as unwillingly, and fighed ; Some affirm, that he laid. It is better thefe Terifh for Ari¬ ftippus, than Ariftippus for them.
He reproved Men for looking upon Goods ex- pofed to file, and taking no care to furnifh . their Minds-, others afcribe this to Dicgenep. , ■
Living in 4^7,Jie was feized by Antaphernesi the King’s Lieutenant, whereupon one faying to him, and where is novV your confidence ?
When, laid he,you fool, fliould I be confident, if not now, when I fhall meet With Antiphernes.
Thofe who forfook Philofophy, to apply themfelves to Mechanical Sciences, he compar’d to the Suitors ^Penelope, they could get the good wills ij/Melantho, ToXydiOX^,' and others of th&
Servants, but could not obtain the Mifirefs in. marriage. Not unlike is that of Arifio, who faid,
that LJ/yJfes, when he went to. Hell, law all the Dead, and fpoke to them, but could not come fo much as to the Sight of the Queen.
Being demanded what Boys ought to learn*
That, laith he, which they ought to prahtife when they are Men.
To one who acculed him for going from So¬ crates to Dionyfius : To Socrates, laith he, I went for Education 5 to Dionyfius for
Recreation. . _ '
To a Courtezan who t(51d him fhe was with Child by him ; Idu know that no more, faid he, than if pajfing through a Bufh,you fhould fay this Thorn pricked you.
To one who blamed him, that he took Mo- '
ney of Dionyfius, Plato a Book ; he anfwer’d, . j
/ want Money, Plato Books. j
t Having loft a great Farm, he faid to one, ^ ?ht. de " I who leemed excellively to compaflionate his trarvi. mm. I lols, Tou have but one field, I have three left - I
why fhould not I rather grieve for you ? It is mad- |
nels ( adds Plutarch) to lament for what js loft, [
and not rejoice for what is left. :
^ When one told him, the Land is loft for. stob.Eth.^6. jj your fake j Better, faith he, is it that the Land H
be lofi for me, than I for the Land. ■
t Seeing one angry vent his Pafljon in words; istob. Eth/ '| Let us not, laith he,y///V twrds to our anger, but ; 0
appeafe our anger with words. i I
Seeing a little Woman exceeding fair ^ This * stob. Eth. I laith he, is a little Evil, but a great Beauty. ■ I
They who invert thefe words, and read, a lit- tie fair one, but great evil, miflake the mean- 'I
ing of Arifiippus, who plays upon that ordinary ■, j
Saying, applying the inverlion to his own luxu- i
rious humour. M
t To one,who demanded his advice whether , !
he Ihould Marry or no : He faid no. If youi^^^ ‘ ' - jl
take a fair Wife, faith he, fhe will be common, if ' [j
foul, a fury, -^Hc fj
o
p
ART
IV.
• Stob, Eth.
2lv,
^Sub, Eth, 229.
ARIS TIP T VS.
He ufed to aivife young Men to carry Juch Frovijion^as in a Ship-wrack they might fwim a- way withal. . ^ '
t rf Shooe that n loo big is unfit for ufe.^Jo isagreat ejiate the bignf 's of thc.Shooe trou¬ bles the wearer ^ Wealth may be ufed upon occa- JioTt either wholly.^ or in part. ■ -
39 1-
C\Vn
• Lacrt*
CHAP. VIII. ■
His Writings.
/'
^QOme affirm / of whom is Sofia- ate s) that he O wrote nothing at all : others that he wrote, The Libyan Hifiory^ three Books dedicated to Dionyfius.
Dialogues twenty hve(or rather twenty three ^ for the number feems corrupt) in one Book 5
•c^
! ; c tt A P. IX. , .
- ^ His Death. •’ • -a.', '
long -with BimSfifi, st I A
ifrrhaf h him, to ddire
him that he would Cerrteto Cyr
order her AfFairs; for,that (he was in danS oP
oppreffion by the Magiftrates,
Wn took leave of and on, his
Aoyage..fe 1 Sick by the way,andwastOtced tj
put in at Up,,-, an JE&m Ifland, wlfee^h?
/vllf be gathered from this Epiitlc which he then ferft to his Daughter. ’
I
tAriftippu§-/i)^ Aretef '
I Received your Letter by Teleus^ youf
defire me to. make all pojfible ha fie to Cyr^e
't -Sorr. Epi/fi
27.
tor the number feems corrupt) in one Book A to. make all pojfible hafie to
fome in the Attick Dialetl^ others in the Dorich S ^ecaufe, yoiir bufinefs with the TrefeAs.gQetk no]
their Titles thefe: i. Artaha'zus. 2. To thefhip wrackt. "3 . To ExiJes.yTo a poor man. 5. To Lais. 6. To Torus. y.To Lais concerning aLooking-glafs . S .Hermias.p.The Dream. lo.To the Cup-bearer. 1 1.
to your Alind^andyour Husband is unfit to map.as:e yoKr domeftwk AairAy reafi^ ofhh bijhfdnejs,
W W a rairej lA^cmcte fiW,
- . . . . . * - .j, . ‘llepM,ck.Wherefcre at foon as I got leave efDi-
Philomeltts.i2.ToServants.i^.To thofewboreproA fnylius, I fail'd towards you., and being iipon m
f/ 't/finn nLl ^ T// _ lOUry?PV (pll ftrh h\i T 1 _
ved himfcrufing old wine yind common Women, it^. To thofe who reproved himforfeafting. i '^.An epi- file to Arete.id.Ti? the Olympickexercfer.ij. An t A Chrlt is a interrogation. 18. Another Interrogation, ip.f A ftiorrcomme- Chria / moracion, _ Another cm Dionyfius^ Daughter. 2 2. To one who "^S^lf^^'f^mceivedKimfelf difiwn 2^. To one who aftion of fome endeavoured to give advice.
Perfon. The
third of thefe (v//^.to Dionyfius’i Daughter) Vofiius inferts amongft the Greek Hiftories ; if that were Hiftorical, it is likely tliis to Dionyfius was of the fame Nature.
' Lacrt.
And. Afiftot &c.
Exercitaiions fix Books.
^ ^ Of Tleafure mentioned by Laertius in the Life of Epicurus.
Of Thifiology., out of which Laertius cites , that Pythagoras was fo named., bccaife he fpakc no lejs truth than ^thius.
of the Luxury of the A./7//>77rT,four Books, con taining examples of thofe who indulged to f Laert. In vit- love and pleafure •, as, the love of t Empedocles Emped. Peri- to Paufanios., in the hrft Book ^ of Craiea to her ^onPeriander., oi' Ari ft otle to the Concubine o.: Hermiasm the HoviVdayii- Socrates to Alcibiades, Xenophon to Cline cu'., Plato to Afier., Xe nocrates to Ptolemo. But, thefe latter inftances fhew, that thefe Books were not writ by this Arifiip- pus.
Epiftlesy four are extant under his name, in th.QSocratick ColleSlion, put forth by Leo Al latitfs.
^ Socion and Paneetius reckon his Treatifes thus.
Of Difcipline.
OfVertue., an Exhortation. Artabazus.
The Shipwrackt,
The BaniJFd.
Exercitations fix.
Chria three.
To Lais.
To Torus. *
To Socrates.
OfEortune*
!’*■ Laert.
journey fell fickby the way atU^2.X2., wfiere ih'e
friends oj homcus provide carefully fir with
fuel) hum unity .ys is needful for one near death As for your demandywhat refpeS you fhould give inoje whom I manumifed., who proff s they will never defert Ariffippus whilfi they have- htiength-, but ever Jerve him and you ; truk them in all things they have learned from me not to be falfe. Tor your f elf I advife you to applpourjelf to the Magifirates, which counfel will profit you, ifyou affefl not rather to have much-.Tou will live mofi at eafe, if you contemn excejs-,jorfhey cannot be fo unjufi as to leave you in want. Tou have two Orchards left fufficient to
maim am you plentifully :and that pofieffion in Ber-
nicia,// alone left you, were fufficient to fupplyyou dully. I do not counfelyou to negleUf mall things - but,not to be troubled for fmall things, fince vexf
t^on ts not good even for great.lf wheni dm diad- • -
you want my advice for the education of young A* riltippus,^^ to Athens, and above all, ejteem Xan- tjppe, and My xio, who have often fpoke to me to bring pi to the Eleufmian Pefiivals. Whilfi yofi lead ih^ pie af ant life with thefe, let the Cyrenscan Pr.tjeas bean unjufi as they pie afe, in your natu-
rj y end tj^y cannot prejudice you.Endeavour tonYlafusC live with Xantippe andUyyto,asIdidheretofire tmth SoQmQS,chmpofing your felf to their Con- ^fffitwn fir. Pride ts not proper in that place.
^/Socrates,w/j^? lived imth^Uo Allatius inea Megara, /c* Gyrene, it will be welH^^^^ ^‘uupn- done to fupply him, and to refpefl as your own^’fi ’
San. ijyouwdlmtnurfea Daughter, becaufeof'^'.^'^
y great trouble ,t gwes you, fend for the Digl,-nA°l,n ^ to whom you have heretofore ex- ^icadlong be-
prefi fio much kindnefs, and nanUd after my AIo- Life
ther,andl have alfo often calledher my friend. A- bove alffike care of little Ariftippus, that he may ' *
be worthy of us,and of Philofophy .Tor this Hefve him as his true Inheritance, [the reft of his efiatc finds the Cyrena:an Magifi rates adverfaries. But you writ me not word that any offered to take that awp from you. Rejoice dear Daughter, in the pof- feffion of thofe Riches which arcinyour power, and, make yourfonpoffejs em I xkewife-.I wijh he were my fonfiutfieing dijapointed of that, hope, I depart with
this ajjurane^.^
140
HEGESIAS,
PART. IV.
» Stob. Eth.
Ip5*
ajfurance^that you will lead him in the paths tfcd- den by good Men. farewell., and grieve not for us.
^ Of his Children, befides this Arete his Daughter, whom he educated in Philofophy, is remembred allb a Son, whom for his ftu- pidity he dif inherited, W turned out of doors-, tor which being reproved by his Wife, who al- ledged, that he came from himfelf he, fpit- ting f3dd.,Th!s comes from me too., but profit eth me nothing. Or, as Laertius. IVe cafl T*f 994£5'-f, allunneceffary things as far as we
can from us.
Arete had a Son named from his Grandfather Arifiippus, and from his Mothers inifruaing him in Philofophy, lurnam’d
Befides thefe mo(Arifiippus the Grandfather and the Grandfon) Laertius leckons two more of the fame name: One writ the Hiftory of Ar¬ cadia: thQ Other was of the new Academy.
CHAP. IX.
His Ltifciples and Suceeffors.
OF the Auditors of Arijiippits, befides his Daughter Arete., (whom he taught with much care, and brought up to great PerfeHion in Philofophy) are remembred JEthiops of P/ lomads., and Antipater of Cyrene.
Arete communicated the Philofophy fte re¬ ceived from her Father, to her Son AriflipPus the younger : Arifiippus tranfmitted it to Tfoe- odorus the Atheift, who inftituted a Sea, calPd Theodorean.
Antipater communicated the Philofophy of Arifiippus to Epitimides his D\iciple-,Epitimides to Ear abates Parabates to Hegefias and Ann]- ceris j thefe two laft laft improving it by fome additions of their own, obtained the honour each of them, to have a Sea named after them, hegefiack and Annicerick.
H E G E S I A S.
CHAP. I. His Life.
t Cic. Tujc.
i.
• Val.Mtx.
8. $.
I ,
■jr Difciple to Par abates^,
P g' was furnamed Death’s
Oratour, from a + Book he writ , M entituled ATona/lsgay, upon occafion of one who had familhed himfelf nigh to death, but was call’d back to life by his Friends, in anfwer to whom, he in this Book demonftrated that death takes us away from ill things, not from good, and reckoned up the incommodities of Life, andreprelented the Evils thereof^ with lb much 'Rhetorick, that the fad Impreflion ^ •thereof penetfated fo far into the breafts of . many hearers, that it begot in them a defire of dying voluntarily, and many laid violent hands upon themlefves. Whereupon he was prohi- ‘ bited by Ptolomy the King to difcourfe any more upon this Subjeff in the Schools.
■ If -i
L/urt.
; CHAP. ir.
His Philofophy.
HIS Difciples were from him called Hege-, fans. They held the fame chief good and Evil with the Cyreneans ^ further aflerting, That Kindnefs, Eriendjhip, and Benevolence are in tloemfelves nothing ; not expetible, but in rejpebi of thofe Benefits which cannot con^ without thofe Perjons.
That Perfect felicity is ahfolutely impojfible, becaufe the Body is difordered by many troubles.,
in which the Soul fhares, and mofiof thofe things which we hope are prevented by chance.
That Lije and Death are in our choice.
That nothing is by Nature pleafant or unpled- fant , but by the rarity and tmufualnefs of ■things, or fatiety ',fome are delighted therewith., others not.
That Poverty and Wealth confer nothing to Pie of tire, neither are the rich poor offered with Pleafure fever d ways. Servitude and Liberty, Nobility and Meannefs, Glory and ignominy dif¬ fer nothing in this refpeH.
That to live is advantagious for a fool, indif¬ ferent to a Wife Man.
That a Wife Man ought to do all things in confideration of himfelf and pref er none before himfelf, for though pojfibly, he may receive be¬ nefits from others very great in outward appear¬ ance -, yet are they nothing in comparijon of thofe which he difpenfeth.
That Senfe confers nothing to certain know¬ ledge, for all apt by the rules of their own re of on.
That Offences ought to be pardoned, for no Man offends willingly, but compelled by fome af fePlion.
That we Jhouldhate tfo Man, but inffruH him better.
That a wije Man Jhould not infijl fo much upon choice of good things, cu upon evil, making it his fcope and end to live neither in Labour nor Grief-, which they do, who are inclined neither way to the object of Pleafure,
ANNICE-
N
Part. IV.
THEX) DORVS.
*41
A N NIC E R I S.
,!T
G H A P. I.
Hi’s Life,
Z Laert,
A
NNJCERIS was of Cyreneffr- ciple to fiirjcbates. Suid^ faith, he was ati Epicurean, and that he . .-a - — lived in the,, time of Alexander.
excellent in Charriot-Racing , of which one day he gave a Teftimony before Elato, and drove many Courfes round the A- cademy, fo exa£fly, that his Wheels never went out of the Track, to the admiration of all that were prefent, except Elato, who re¬ prehended his too much induflry, faying, It was not poffible but that he who employ¬ ed fb much Pains about things of no value, muff negleff thofe of greater concernment, which are truly worth admiration.
^ When Elato, by the command of Eionyji- us. Was ibid as a Slave in oEgina, Anmcvris fortuned to be prefent, who redeemed him for twenty, or according to others, thirty, A\in,e, and fent him to Athens to his Friends , who prefently. returned the Money to Anniceris, but ’ he refiifed it, faying. They were not the on¬ ly Perfons that deferved to take care of Elato,
fSwV. fHshad a Brother named a Phi-
loibpher j he had likewife the famous Eofido- niusio be his Difciple.
•Laert. vit. Flat.
CHAP. II.
His Eh'ikfophy.
HI S Difciples were called Annicer'idns ;
t they as the reft placed all good in plea-’t c/c.t/e fure, and conceived Veitue to be only com¬ mendable as far as it produced pleafure.. ^They • agreed in all things with the Hegefians, but ' they abolifhed not Friendftiip, good-will, duty to Parents, and aftions done for our Country.
They held.
That although a Wife Man fuffer trouble for thofe things, yet he will lead a Life, nothing the lejs happy, thd he enjoy but few Eleafures.
That the felicity of a Er'tend is not expet'i- ble 'in it felf ', for to agree in Judgment with another, or to he ra'ifed above, and fortified againfi the general Opinion,is not enough to fatisfie rea- fon, but we muji accujlomour f elves to thebefi 'things-, becaufe of our innate vicious Inclinations,:
That a Friend is not be entertained out of ufeful or neceffary Ends, nor when fueh fail,is to be caJloff,but out of an intimate good will, for which we muJi alfo undergo trouble. For though they placed (as the reji) the chief end and good in EleaJ'ure, and profejjed to be grieved at the lofs thereof, yet they ajfirmrthat we ought to undergo Voluntarily labours, out of Love to a Friend.
op. 3.
THEODORUS.
* Litert. f Skid.
CHAP. I.
His Life.
HEODORtJS hoztdAnnicerfDioiy- fuss the Logician, the t Cittie-
an, and Eyrrho the EpheQiick. He * Pint. Plae. JL. was called the Atheifi, becaufe ^ he Fbii. 17. cic. held there was no God, and wrote a Treatife enat. faith many) wherein he endeavoured
• to refel all Arguments to the contrary , out of which Epicurtts borrowed much. Afterwards was abuiively called , upon occafioh of de Dilpute with St'ilpo, to this EfFeQ:. Do you believe, faith Stilpo, you are whatfoever you affirmyour felf to be I Theodorus granting ^
Then, continues St'ilpo, if you fhould fay you were a God, were you fo f To which ThodortfS aflenting, St 'ilpo replied ^ Then 'mpiom Alan, , you are a Bird, or any thing elfe by the fame Reafon.
He was eje£l:ed out of Cyrene by the Ci¬ tizens, whereupon he faid pleafantly Tou do not well, Cyreneans, tothruft me out of Lybia ■into Greece. Thence he went to Athens, 'whQie he fhould have been cited to the Court of Areopagus, and loft his Life, but that he waS freed by Demetrius Ehalereus. Being likewife
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