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honour, the reft were difhonourable •, that he ought to accept of -thg good-will, though he delpifed the -Money. , The. , .reft of thole Vir¬ gins were married iichiY \o Athemims^ only Speujippus^ who belt delerved, was poor. With thefe Arguments Speujippus jvas induced to accept of Chids gift 5 whereat Cbio mych con¬ gratulated his own good Fortune, as having laid hold of an ocaXionJ^uchy as /?wVj^x,laith he, f Jhall not meet again in all my Life,
When Dion came to Athens., Speujippm ivas continually in company with him, more than any other Friend there, by Plata’s Advice, to fbften and divert Dions Humour , with a facile Companion, fuch as he knew SpeafippM to ^ j and that withal, he knewdilcreetly how to obierve time and place in his Mirth ; whence Timon {in Sillis) calls him,a good Jejter.
The laft time that Dlato, upon the importu¬ nity of Dionysus, went to Sicily, Speujippus 2iC- companied him. Whilft they lived at Syra- xufe, kept more Company with the
Citizens than Dlato did, and infinuating more into their Minds, at firft they were aftaid to Ipeak freely to him, miftrufting him to be one of Dionyjtus^s Spies ; But within a while they began to confide in him, and all agreed in this, to pray Dion to come to them, and not to take care for Ships, Men or Horfes, but to hire a Ship for his own Paflage -, for the Sici¬ lians delired no more, than that he would lend them his Name and Perfon againft the Tyrant.
Speujippus at his return to .dr^f;7j',perlwaded Dion to War againft Dionyjius , and deliver Sicily from the Bondage of Tyranny, alluring him the Country would receive him gladly. Dion upon this Information received fuch en¬ couragement, that he began fecretly to levy Men ; The Philolbphers much advanced his Defign. When he went to Sicily, he beftowed a Country-Houfe , which he had purchaled fince his coming to Athens, upon Speujippm.
CHAP. II.
• His YrofeJJionof Vhilojophy.
dying in the firft year of the loSth X 01ympiad,T^^/?y?/)77/^T ^ing Archon,5y7 Jippus fucceeded him in the School of the Acade¬ my, t whom he followed alfo in his Doftrine.
He firft, as Theodorus affirms, looked into the Community, and mutual affiftance of Ma¬ thematical Difeiplines, as Flato did into that of the Philofbphical.
^ He firft, according to Census, declared thole things, which IJhcrates conceived not to be divulged, the lame perhaps which t Cice¬ ro calls p.vesUxiey of Ifocrates.
^ He aflSrmed, that the Mind was not the lame, either with Good or One but of a pe¬ culiar Nature proper to it felf.
^ He let up in the School which Flato had built, the Images of the Graces.
Heexaded Money ofhisDifciples, contrary tothecuftom of Plato,
The two Women who were P/fl/o’s Auditors, Lajlhenia the Alantinean, and Axiothea the Philijian, Speujippus likewile.
Having continued Mafhn of the School ^ght years , he at laft, by reafon of his infirm Difpolition, much debilitated by the Palfie, fentto Xenocrates, deliring him to come and take from him the Government of the School, which Xenocrates did.
* CHAP. III.
' His Writings.
He wrote t many things, chiefly in Philo* * t Ibphy, Commentaries and Dialogues, of which were j
Ariftippus the Cvrcnaick,
Of Riches 1.
Of Pleafure i.
Offujiice I.
OfPhilofophy i.
OfPriendJhip 1.
Of the Gods i.
Dhe Philofopher i.
DoCephalus i. '
Cephalus i,
Clinomachus, or Lyfas i,
The Citizen i.
Of the Soul i,
'To Gryllus i,
Ariftippus i.
The Lenfutation of Arts 1}
Commentary Dialogues. , .
Artificial 1. ,s
Dialogues of Ukenefs in thipgt 10. —
Divijions and Arguments to 'things like.
Of the Genuses and Species of Examples,.
To Amartirus.
Encomium of Plato.
Ep files to Dion, Dionylius, Philip.
Of Law.
'The Mathematician,
Manirobulus.
Lyfas.
Definitions, of all thele Writings the only extant.
Orders of Commentaries.
Verfes.
^ Phavorinus, in the lecond of his Commen- taries, laith. That Arfiotle paid three Talents for his Books.
CAAP. IV.
His Death.
He was(as f Timotheus faith jvery infirm of Body, ^ inlbmuch that he was fain to carried up and down the Academy in a kind of a running Chair : Riding in this manner, he one day met Diogenes, whom laluting, he faid, Joy be with you : But not with you; anfwered Dio¬ genes, who can endure to live being in that con¬ dition. At. length he dyed willingly through Grief, as Laertius affirms, whoellewhere citing Plutarch in the Lives of Lyfander an^ Scylla, laith. He died of the Phthiriafis -, but there is no liich thing extant in Plutarch.
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c Though he followed Ylato in- his Opini¬ ons-, yet he did nor 'imitate his Temper, for he was auftere, chdlerick, and had not fo great coprimand over his Pl'eafures; In- anger he threw a Dog' into a Well, and 'indulging to Plealure, he went to the Marriage'' of Caffan- der^ in Macedonia : He was allb fo_great a Lo¬ ver of Money, that fome Poems which he had written, not very good, he lung publick- ly for gain •• For which Vices, Dionyfms writing to him, thus derides him ; And we may learn Vhilofpphy from our Arcadian She-Scholar. Plato took no Mony of his Scholar s^you exdfl it ivhefher they are willing ' ornot. '* Athen fame Epiftle, after he had reproached him
lor Avarice and Voluptuoulhels , he objeds his Collodions of- Money from many- Perfons ^ his Love to Lajihenia^ the Sardian JCurtezao ^ after all this adding, Why do you accuje us of Avarice^ who your felf omit not any fordid way of gain? lAid not you after Hermias’T Debt was fa- tisjiedi^ make ColleUions in his Name amongji his f riends^ to your own ufe ?
To a rich Mah fn love with a deformed Perfon ^ What need ' you her ,■ laith he ? for lenT'^ert. Talents you may hm-oe' d handfomer.
To him Simonides Vvrote Hillories, wherein, he related the adion^ of Dion and hion.
There was another Speufppus^ z Phylician of Alexandria. '
XENOe R ATES.
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his Country., Tarents., and living with YXaSo
XEnocrates was of Choice don., Son of * Agatho, or b Agathenor. From the Years of his Life 82. which in all probability ended when Folemo llic- feeded in the School, the firft Year of the i i^th Olympiad .Tt may he gathered that he was bom in the fourth Year of tlie p5th Olympiad. He heard Tlato from his Childhood. He was dull of Apprehenfion-, whence Tlato comparing him with Ariflotle., imdffne needs a Spur., the other a Bridle j what an Afs and what an Horfe have I to Toak together ! He was levere, and had a lad Look, for which reafon Tlaio oft faid to him, Xenaq'ates., Sacrifice. to the Grac.es.,V}\{ich. was an ufiial Phrale to Melancholy People.
' Another time Tlato lharply reiprehended the roughnefs of his Difpofition, which he took quietly and unmoved ^ faying to one that inftigated him to reply in his own defence, Aa, this is an Advantage to me.
^ He accompanied Tlato in his Voyage to Sicily.,^ whereat a drinking Feaft, -with Dio nyfius., being honoured with a Wreath of Gold, inftead of a Garland of Flowers ^ which were bellowed upon the Guells upon fuch Occafions, when he went away, he put it upon the Statue* of Mercuiy., where they ufed to leave their or¬ dinary Garments.
^ when Dionyfius fell out with VlatofzrA threatned to find one that Ihould cut oft' his HiuiAyXenocrates made anfwer,;^*?/ before he hath cutoff this^ lliewing his own. -
* JElian faith, that Xenocrates having ta¬ ken a Journey into his own Country, Ariflotle with his Dilciples came to Plato: Speufippus ■was at that time fick,and therefore could not be with Plato. Plato being fourfcore years old, (which fJlls upon the fourth Year of the 107th Olympiad, the Year before his Death) his Me¬
mory through Age much decay’d, Ariflotle fell upon him with fubtle Sophiftical queltions, whereupon Plato gave over walking in puUick and retired with his Friends to his own Houfc. At the end of the three Months Xenocrates re¬ turning from his Travel, finds Ariflotle -viAkmg where he had left Plato., and feeing that he and his Friends, when they went out of the School went ndt to Plato., but to fome. other part' of the City, he asked one there prelent, what was become of Plato, thinking he had been Sick ^ the other anfwered, he is not Sick, but Ariflotle hath molelted him, and driven him out of the School, lb that now he teacheth Philo- fophy in his own Garden. Xenocrates hearing this, went immediately to Plato, whom, he found dilcourling to his Difciples, perfons of great worth and eminence. As foon as he had ended his Difoourfe, he laluted Xenocrates, as he ufod, very kijidly, and Xenocrates him. When the Company was dilinift, Xenocrates , without Ipeaking a word of it to Plato, getting his Friends together, after he had chid Speufip- pus for permitting Ariflotle to polTels tlie School, made a Head againft Ariflotle, and op- poled hii’n with his utmoll force, until at lalt he re-inftated him in the School. Thus ainian. But this Story, which he acknowledgeth to have taken up no better Authority than vul¬ gar Report, dilagroes with many Circumllances of Ariflotle\ Life, fupported by fax more cre¬ dible Teilimonies. • , ■ ' • **
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CHAP- II
Bis'Profeffion of Fhi/ofophy.
After SpeiffippKs had held the School eight years, finding himfelfaiot able to continue that charge any longer, he fent to Xenocrates^ intreating him to take it upon him, which Xe- * nocmtes did » in the fecond year of the i loth
Olymdiad , Lijimach'ides being Archon , not without emulation and diflenlion with the Pe- . ripateticks, for b Arijiotle , at his return out p/i^jccdonia^ Xenocrates poirefTcd of
' ‘ 1 the Academy, inllituted a School in oppofi-
tion to him, in the Lycccum laying ,
Silent to be noxx> nwf d'lfgr aceful wen%
And fee Xenocrates pojjejs the Chair.
Uert vit ' Some affirm, that Alexander falling out Arifl. ’ ‘ with Arijiotle^ to vex him, fent a Prefent to
d Laert. vit. Xenocrates.^ * of fifty Talents, whereof Xeno- crates took but 3000 Atticks , and lent back the reft, faying , That he needed it rnofi that t h-thk. toas to maintain fo many. Or, as e Stob^us re- iam.yj. lates it, having entertained the MelTenger af ter his ufual Falhion, Go and tell Alexander.^ faith he, that after the rate I live, I fhall not need fifty Talents in all my Life. ^ The Mo- tSkh. Eth. ney being brought back to Alexander.^ he ask- 1 Sam. 77. ed, if Xenocrates had not any Friend, adding ' that as for his own Friends, the Wealth of Da¬
rius was too little for them.
i stab. Eth. t Healferted Unity diXiA Duality toh^ Gods 1 W* 3- the firft as it were Mafculine, in the nature i of a Father, reigning in Heaven , whom he
called alfo Jupiter., the Odd., and the Mind. j The other, as it were Female, and the Mother
I commanding all things under Heaven. This
' he called the Mind of the Univerle. He like-
wife aflerts Heaven to be Divine, and the fiery j Stars to be Olympian Gods, the reft fubluna-
ry invilible Deities, which permeate, through theElements of Matter, whereof that which i ' palleth through the Air is called Juno., that
which th roug^li the Water, Neptune, that which through theEarth,C(?r ed from him, as he the former from Flato'. - * Laert, ^ He continued Matter of the School twen¬ ty five years, until the firft year of the hundred and lixth Olympiad ^ then his Difciple Fole- i mo fucceeded him. During that time, he lived
; very retired in the Academy ^ and if at any
I time he went into the City , all the Trades-
! men and other People thronged to fee him.
® CHAP. HI.
I.
1 His Vcrtues and Apothegms.
I f Uert. Val, t A ^ongft hlr other Vertues, he was very I Mtf*. 4. 3. jl\. remarkable for his Continence,of which there is this Inftance : Fhryne, a famous Athe¬ nian Curtezan, having laid a Wager with fome Young Men his Dilciples, that he could nor ' refill her Enticements, Hole privately into his
Bed ; The jjext Morning being quettion’d and , . laught at by his Dilciples, Ihc laid , the Wa-
ger they laid was of a Man, not of a Scone.
To this end he ufed to mortifie himfelf by in- cifion, and cauterifing of his Flelli.
t His Wildom and Sanftity was • much re- f Vai max. 2. verencedby Athenians-, for being to give his c’/c, pro Teftimony, and to fwear, as the cuftom was, that he fpoke nothing but truth, the Judges all role up, and cried out, that he fhould not Swear, indulging that to his Sincerity, which they did not allow to one another.
^ .Being fent with others to Fhilip on an Em- bally, the reft received Gifts from him, and went to treat in private with him -, Xenocrates did neither, and for that part was not invited by him : The Ambalfadours returning to Athens, faid, that Xenocrates went along with them to no purpofe .• Whereupon the Athe- ■ '
nians were ready to impole amulftuponhimj '
but when they underftood by him, that they were at that time to confider chiefly concern¬ ing the Common-wealth, Fhilip having cor¬ rupted the reft with Gifts, and that he would not accept any, they bellowed double Ho¬ nours upon him. Fhilip laid afterwards, that of thole who came to him, only Xenocrates would not take any Gifts.
Being fent in the time of the Lamiack War (which was about the lecond year of the hun¬ dred and fourth Olympiad) Ambaflador to An¬ tipater, about the redemption of fome Athenian fn{o:\QX^,Antipater invited him to fit down to ’Supper, whereto he anfwered in the words of UlyJJesin Homer:
0 Circe, what ' Alan is there that is good.
Before his friends are freed can think of food.
Antipater was fo pleafed with the ingef nious application of thefe Verfes, that he cau- fed the Prifoners immediately to be fet at Liberty.
t His Clemency, faith JElian , extended ^ not only to Men, but, often to irrational Crea- lifl. 30. 3. * cures, as once, when a Sparrow, purfued by Lam. a Hawk, flew to his Bofom , he took it, much pleafed, and hid it till the Enemy were our of Sight -, and when he thought it was out of Fear and danger , opening his Bofom, he let it go, laying, that he had not betrayed a Suppliant.
^Bion deriding him, he refufed to' make any anlwer in his own Defence -, for, a Trage¬ dy, faith he, being mocked % a Comedy, needs not a Reply. ’ ' -
To one, who though he neither had learned Mufick, Geometry, nor Aftronomy 5 yet de- fired to be his Difciple : Away, faith he, you have not the handles of Fhilojophy. Some af¬ firm he faid, I teach not to card Wool.
Antipater coming to Athens, met and fain¬ ted him -, which Salute he returned not, until he had made an end of the Dilcourfe he was a- bout. '
t He was nothing proud 5 he alfigned a ^ j
particular Bufinefs to every part of the FHY,stob. Eth.126.
a great part thereof to Medication, one part to Silence.
^ Whenfoever he pierced a Veflel of Wine, ^ stob. it was fowred before he fpenc it, and the Broths that w'ere made for him were often Dd 2 thrown
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thrown away the next day j whence prover¬ bially was ufed, the Cheefe of Xenocrates, of things that laft well, and are not eafily con- fumed.
t Holding his Peace at fome detractive dif- courfe ^ they asked him why he fpoke not ? Becaufe, faith he, I have fometimes repented of Ipeaking, but never of holding my Peace.
Yet, this Man, faith Laertius, becaufe he could not pay the Fine impofed upon Aliens, the Athenians fold . Demetrius Pha/erius bought him, contenting both Parties, the Athenians with their Tribute, Xenocrates with his Liberty.
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CHAP. IV.
tiii Writings
left many^ Writings, Verfes, exhorta¬
tions, and Orations, their Titles thele.
Of Nature 6 Books.
Of Wifdom 6.
Of Riches i.
Arias i.
Of Indefinite i.
Of a Child i.
Of Continence i.
Of Profitable i.
Of free i.
Of Death i. which feme conceive to be the fame with that which is extant a- mongft the fpurious Platonick Dialogues, under the Title of Axiochus.
Of Voluntary i;
Of friendfhip 2.
Of Equity I.
Of Contrary 2.
Of Beatitude 2.
Of Writing i.
Of AAemory i.
Offalfei.
Callicles i.
Of Prudence 2.
Oeconomick i.
Of Temperance i.
Of the Power of Law i.
Of a Commonwealth i.
Of SanSity i.
That Vertue may be taught Of Ens I,
Of fate
Of fortitude Of One I,
Of Id.fas I.
Of Art I.
Of Gods 2.
Of the Soul 2.
Of Science i. •
Politick I .
Of Scientificks i.
Of Philofophy i.
Of Parmenides Opmions A?'chide?nus, or of Tuflice Of Good I.
Of things zsohich pertain to IntelleU 8. Solutions concerning Speech i.
Phyfical Aufcultation 6.
A Swmnary. \ .
Of Ge/ius^s and Species i.
Pythagorean Affections i.
Solutions 2.
Dwifions 8.
Pofitions 3.
Of DialeSick 14, CV 16.
Of Difeiplines concerning Difhnliions p. Concerning Ratiocination p.
Concerning Intelligence 4.
Of Difeiplines 6.
Concerning Intelligence 2.
Of Geometry 5.
Commentaries i.
Contraries i.
Of Numbers i.
Theory of Arithmetick i.
Of Intervals i.
f^rologick 6. '
Elements, to Alexander concerning a Kingdom To Tribas.
To Hephieftion.
Of Geometry 2.
Verfes 345.
CHAP, V.
His Death.
He died in the 82 year of his age by a fall in the Night into the Bafin (wherein he
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Of Pafftons Of Lives I. Of Concord i. Of Difciples 2. Of fuftice I. Of Vertue 2, Of Species i. Of Pleafure 2. Of Life i.
was drowned) probably in the firft year of the 1 1 (5th Olympiad, for in that Year Polemo his SuccelTor took upon him the School.
Laertius faith, there werp fix more of his Name, but mentions only five. One, very- ancient, skilful in TaUicks ; another of the lame City and Family with this Philofopher, Au¬ thor of the Oration upon the Death oT Arfinoe^ the fourth laith he, a Philolboher, who writ in Elegiack Verfe, but not happily, perhaps the fame, who, Suidcis laith, was nothing in- feriour to this Xenocrates for Continence ; the fifth, a Statuary, the fixth a Writer of Songs, as Ariftoxenus affirms.
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0 L E M 0 was an Athenian of OcaA [ a Town belonging to tfee Genian Tribe,] his Father Ehilojlratus ("who according to + Antigonus CaryjYni 's) a Citizen of great account j and kept a Chariot and Horfes.
Eoletno in his Youth was very Intemperate, and diffolate ^ he frequently took a lum of Money, and hid it in a private corner of fome ■Street, to fiipply his Extravagances upon oc- cafion. Even in the Academy were found three olioli^ which he had hid under a Pillar, upon the fame account. This Wildnefs cau- fed difcontent betwixt hiha and his Wife, who, thinking herfelf not not well ufed by him, ac- culed him
^ ^ Neither did he delight (faith Valerit/s Ma- xhnus^ in Luxury only, but even in the in¬ famy thereof. On a time, coming from a Feaft, not after the fetting but rifing of the Sun i and feeing the Door of Zenocrates the Philofbpher_ open, full of Wine, fmelling Iweet of Unguents , crowned with Garlands, richly attired, he rufhed into his School, which was filled with a Croud of Learned Perfbns. Not contented with fo rude an Intrulion, he fate down ' alfo , intending to make fport at his excellent Eloquence, and prudent Precepts. Hereupon all were offended as the Affront defcrved, only Zenocrates^ continuing the lame Countenance and Gefture, fell from the Dif- courfe in which he was, and began tolpeak of Modefly and Temperance, with the gra¬ vity of whole Difcourfe, Polemo being reduced to Repentance, firft took his Garland off from his Head, and flung it on the Ground •, foon after he withdrew his Arm within his Cloak •, Next he laid afide the cheerfulnels of that look which he had formerly, when he affeUed feaft- ing ^ iaftly, he wholly diverted himlelf of Lu¬ xury, and being thus cured by the wholefome Medicine of one Difcourle, he, from an infa¬ mous Prodigal became a mort excellent Phi- iofopher, being ^ from that time forward fo addiUed to rtudy, that he furpafled all the reft, and fucceeded Xenocrates in the Govern¬ ment of the School, which he began in the firft Year of the ii
After he began to rtudy Philolbphy , he had fuch a conrtant Behaviour, that he retained always the lame Countenance, and kept the fanae tone in all his Speech, whereby Crantor was taken with him. A Mad Dog ha¬ ving bit him by the Knee, he alone of all the Company leem’d to be unconcerned in it, and
a Tumult happening thereupon in' the City, * • ' he asked without any dirturbance, what was the matter ? In the Theatres alfo, he was no- ' thing moved. When ■Nicojirdtus the Poet , lirnamcd C/ytetnnefiray ' recited fometlfing to him and Crates^ ■ ■ Crates was much taken, there¬ with, but he made no more fltow than as if he had heard nothing, and was altogether fuch as Mcldnihius the ' Painter in his Books of Pi- 8:ure hath defer ibed him, for he “faith in his aftions was exprelTed a ftubbornnefs and hard- nels. ^ ' '
Polemo ufed to fay, we ought to exercife our felves in 'things, not in DialeQjck'.Dilcif^ines,
I lert, _ fatisfying our felves with ^hfe ^alle and meditation of the fuperficial par, of Science, we become admired fopfubtilty ' in Diicourfe, but contradiff our felves in the praflice of our
Life- ••
He was facete and in^enioiis, ,fhunnii\|;\tfat which Arifloplmies iniputd^ to erpels and harlhnefs. He , taught , noting, but, walking. ThQ Athenians mucf/ fit^flp.ur’d him for his great Integrity, he tqok^grdat light in Solitude, whence for the, motf fpart he dwelt in a Garden,about which his ©ilci^l,es built themfelves little Lodges, ' near to his School. ,He was a ftudious imitator of Xeno¬ crates ( who, ArijUppns faith , much loved him) always remembring his Innocence, feve- rity and gravity, to which, like a Doriek Mea- fure, he conformed his own Steps.
Antigonus Caryjlius faith, that from the thir- tieth year of his- Age to his Death, he drank nb, *2. nothing; but Water.
He held that the World is God. stob. phyf.u-},
He much affeOied Sophocles^ chiefly in thole places where (to ufe the Phrale of ite Coiptpk Poet) a Molojjian IGog feemeth th^have txrit^n together with him. And whereas PhrynijNts faith he was ' :b
J^ot fweetl nor fl at^ but gerttlp /mwth ^ he laid, ttidii. homer was an Ep\Cei '^phocles\ So¬ phocles z Tragick Homer. .
He died very old of a Conliimption, ^ a^l'left behind him many' Writings. La'epms hdtli this Epigram upon him j :
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Wert thou not told.^ that PoXemo lih'^hM^
On whom flow Jlcknefs {man'‘s worji pa0)n)pi'eXd^ Noy'^tisthe Robe of Flejh he us'd^ - •
Which ere to Heaven he mounted^ dohri-Wldid,
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CRATES.
CRATES was a Thriajian , Son of Antigenes ^ he was an Auditor of Polemo^ and loved by him j he fuc- ceeded him in the Government of his School. They both profited fo much by one another, that living they not only follow¬ ed the fame inftitutes, but even to their laff ends were 'alike, and being dead, were buried in the fame Sepulchre. Upon which occalion Antagorus writ thus upon them both,
lEhe ere than art^ fay ere thou pa fejl by. Crates and Polemo here buried lie ^
Both for their mutual Love no lefs admir'd^ Than for their Eloquence^ by vohich infpiTd,
0 tEwifdom they profefs^d the Age was proud^ Tet gladly to their f acred Precepts bow'd,
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Hence Arcefilaus,^ when he went from Theo- phraflus^ and applied himfelf to them , faid. They were Gods,^ or certain Reliques of the Gol¬ den Age.
They were nothing popular, but what Dio- nyjiodorus an ancient Mufician was wont to lay, may be applied to thefe, when he boafted^ that none had ever heard him fing, as they had Ifmenius , nor had ever feen him in a Ship, or at the Fountains.
Antigonus faith, that he fojourned at Cron- top's,,^ when he and At cefilaus lived molt friend¬ ly, and that Arcefdaus dwelt with Crantorf ole- mo with together with Lyficles,^ who was one of the Citizens, and truly, Polemo,^ as is before- mentioned, loved Crates ^ Cranto7\ Arce- filaus. But Crates dying, as Apollodorus in the third of his Chronicle, left Books which he had written, partly of Philofophy , partly of Comedy ^ Orations fuited for publick plead¬ ing, or Embalfie.
He had many eminent Difciples, of whom was Arcefdaus,, and Bion the Borifhenite,, af terwards called a Theodorean from that Se£t.
There were ten of this Name. The Eirfl an antient Comick Poet.
The Second,, an Oratour of the Family of Ifocrates.
The Third,, an Ingineer, that went along with Alexander in his Expeditions.
ThQpourth, a Cynick.
The Fifth,, a Peripatetick.
The Sixth, this Academick.
The Seventh,, a Grammarian.
The Eighth writ of Geometry.
The Ninth, an Epigrammatick Poet.
The Tenth, of Tarfis, an Academick Phi- . lofopher.
GRANTOR.
' -:o^cintor was of Soli, much admired in . : r.j 'V ' his* own Country. He came to Athens, where he heard Xenocrates, and ftu-
_ died with Polemo.
He writ Commentaries, 3000 Verfes, where¬ of forhe alcribe part to Arcefdaus.
Being asked how he came to be taken with Polemo, he anlwered from the tone of his Speechy never exalted nor deprefled.
Falling Sick, he went to the Temple of JEfculapius, and walked there ^ where many reformed fo him from feveral parts, not think¬ ing he ftayed in. refpeH: of his Sicknefs,but that he meant to ereft a School in that place; a- mongft the reft came Arcefdaus, whom, tho’ he loved him very much, he recommended to Polemo,yyFom he himfelf after his recovery heard alfo, and was extreamly taken with him.
He bequeathed his Eftate, amounting to twelve Talents to Arcefdaus, who asking him where he would be buried, he anfwered.
In Earth's kindBofotn happy 'tis to lie.
He is faid to have written Poems, and to have depofited them, lealed up in his own CoHii^-, fn tfte Temple of Minerva ; of him thus Thecetetus.
P leafing to Men, but to the Mufes more.
Crantor too f eon of Life was dfpojfefi. Earth his cold Body lae to thee refiore.
That in thy Arms he peacefully may refi,
Crantor above all admired Homer and Euri¬ pides, faying it was hard in proper Language to Ipeak at once tragically and pa(ric>nately,and quoted this Verfe out of his l^llerophon,
Alas, yet why alas.
Through fuch Fate Mortals pafs.
Antagoras the Poet alledgeth thele Verfes, as written by him.
^ My Soul's in doubt, for doubt lefs is his race. Whether I Love Jirji of all Gods fhall place. Which drew from Erebus their old defeent.
And Night beyond the Ocean's vaji extent ;
Or whether to bright Venus, or to Earth,
^ Redd ’E|r
'S'f/wof, oTreiy
&c. as Ca/ij- machus hynrn,