things as these were heap'd up against him to display his Incontinence and Hypocrisie And Molon among the rest of his ill-willers said of him That it was not so much to be wonder'd that Dionysius should be permitted to live at Corinth as that Plato should be suffer'd to live in Sicily Nor did Xenophon seem to have any great kindness for him and therefore as two persons between whom there was a perfect Emulation they still wrote upon the same Subjects and under the same Titles as the Symposium and the Defence Then Plato wrote of his Common-wealth and Xenophon his Cyropaedia which Plato affirms to be a feign'd Story for that Cyrus was no such Man. And though both have Socrates continually in their mouths yet they never speak a word one of another only that Xenophon makes mention of Plato once in his third Book of Commentaries It is also reported that Antisthenes having a desire to repeat something that he had written requested Plato to be present at the rehearsal who asking Antisthenes what was the subject of the Manuscript and he replying That it was to prove There was something which was not to be contradicted Plato demanded how he could write upon that subject and then going about to shew him his Errour he so offended Antisthenes that he wrote a Dialogue against Plato under the Title of Satho a nick-name in derision denoting him to be well Arm'd against the Combats of Venus From what time they had a continual Grudge one against the other 'T is said that Socrates when he heard Plato's Lysis repeated by the Author himself should cry out Heavens bless me what a company of Fables has the young Man invented about me For he had written several things that Socrates never spoke The like Animosity there was between Plato and Aristippus And therefore in his Dialogue concerning the Soul he objects against him that he was not present with Socrates when he dy'd though he were then at Aegina which was not far distant Aeschines also bare him a particular spleen for that when he came to Dionysius who had a peculiar respect for him and that expected relief in his poor and low condition Plato despised him and he had lost his labour but for the recommendation of Aristippus As for the Speeches which he introduces Crito speaking when Socrates was advis'd to make his escape Idomeneus affirms 'em to have been made by Aeschines only by Plato attributed to Crito out of the unkindness between ' em Nor is Plato found to have made any mention of him in any of his Books unless it be in his Immortality of the Soul and his defence of Socrates and that very slightly too Moreover Aristotle asserts that all the Writings which may be said to be properly his run in a Style between Verse and Prose who was the only person as Phavorinus relates that staid with him when he repeated his Immortality of the Soul when all the rest rose up and departed Many are of opinion that Philip the Opuntine transcrib'd all his Laws that were written in the Tables of Wax which were comprehended in his Epinomis Euphorion also and Panaetius affirm that the beginning of his Common-wealth was frequently found with several Blurrings Alterations and Emendations More than this Aristoxenus asserts that the whole or the chiefest part of the whole Treatise was to be read word for word in the Contradictories of Protagoras His Phaedrus is said to have been the first piece that ever he compos'd and indeed the whole Problem suvours of Juvenility besides that Dicearchus has bequeath'd an ill name to all that manner of writing as being both troublesome and insipid It happen'd once that Plato seeing a certain person playing at Dice reprov'd him for it who answering that it was a slight matter Dost thou take custom said he to be a slight matter Being ask'd whether he intended for himself a Monument like that of his Ancestors he reply'd First let me get my self a Name then perhaps I may want many Monuments Another time Xenocrates coming to give him a visit Pray said he chastize this Boy for me for I am angry and therefore cannot And to another of his Servants Sirrah said he I had certainly bang'd thy bones had I not been in a passion Being on Horse-back he presently alighted fearing as he said lest the pride of the Horse should infect him He was wont to advise those that were given to drink diligently to survey themselves in their Looking-Glasses for that certainly they would then beware of the shame which they brought upon themselves Nor would he allow any Man to drink to a pitch unless it were upon the solemn Festivals of the God that was the giver of Wine He was also an Enemy to immoderate sheep and therefore in his Laws he pronounces all those that are given to sleep to be persons of no worth He held that there was nothing so delightful to the hearing as Truth or as others say to speak Truth For thus he writes of Truth in his Laws Truth noble Guest is a most sublime and durable thing but it is a hard matter to perswade Men to it He wish'd he might leave a Monument behind him either in Friends or Books He dy'd in the same manner as we have already declar'd in the thirteenth year of King Philip's Reign as Phavorinus relates in his third Book of Commentaries and Theopompus tells us that the same Prince gave him once a very tart and severe Reprimand On the other side Myronianus in his Likenesses testifies that Philo makes mention of a Proverb concerning Plato's Lice as if he should dye of that Disease He was buried in the Academy where he had spent the greatest part of his time in the study and profession of Philosophy from whence the Sect which he founded was call'd the Academic He was accompany'd to his Grave by an honourable Train of the whole City that flock't to his Funeral And for his Estate he dispos'd of it by his Will which he made after this manner These things Plato left behind and has thus dispos'd of A Farm in the Lordship of the Ephestiadae bounded to the North by the High-way that leads from the Temple of the Cephisiades to the South by the Heracleum in the same Lordship butting to the East upon the Lands of Archestratus Phlearius and Westward upon the Lands of Philip the Cholidian Let not this Farm be sold or alienated to any Person but let it come to Adimantus my Son. Another Farm also I leave behind which I purchased of Callimachus adjoyning Northward to the Lands of Eurymedon the Myrinnusian Southward to the Lands of Demostratus Eupetero Eastward to the Lands of the foresaid Eurymedon and Westward to the Lands of the foresaid Cephisus Item In money three Minas Item A Silver Bottle weighing one hundred sixty five Drachmas Item A Silver Boat weighing forty five Drachmas Item A Gold Ring and an Ear-ring both together weighing four Drachmas and six
Naval Astrology reputed to be his is more probably aver'd to be the work of Phocus the Samian Yet Callimachus makes him so skilful in the Heavens as to have found out the Lesser Bear by which means the Phoenicians became such exquisite Saylors His Iambics are these He first descry'd the Northern Team of Stars That draw the Artic Wain about the Pole By which Phoenician Pilot fearless dares To steer through pathless Seas without controule But as others say he only wrote two Treatises concerning the Tropic and the Equinoctial believing it no difficult thing to apprehend the rest However most allow that he was the first that div'd into the Mysteries of Astrology and foretold the Eclipses of the Sun as Eudemus declares in his History of Astrology which was the reason that Zenophanes and Herodotus so much admir'd him besides that Heraclitus and Democritus testifie the same thing Some there are who affirm him to be the first who held the Immortality of the Soul of which number is Choerilus the Poet. As others report he was the first that found out the course of the Sun from Tropic to Tropic and comparing the Orb of the Moon with that of the Sun discover'd the one to be no more than the seven hundred and twentieth Part of the other He was also the first that limited the Month to thirty days He was likewise the first that discours'd of nature as some affirm Moreover Aristotle and Hippias testify that he was the first who taught that inanimate Things were endu'd with Souls which he prov'd from the Vertues of the Magnet and Amber Having learnt the Art of Geometry among the Egyptians he was the first that invented the Rightangl'd Triangle of a Circle for which he offer'd an Ox in Sacrifice according to the relation of Pamphilus though others attribute that invention to Pythagoras and among the rest Apollodorus the Accomptant And if it were true what Callimachus vouches in his Iambics that Euphorbus the Phrygian invented the Scalenum and Trigonum with many other things relating to the Speculation of Lines as certain it is that Thales gave much more light to that sort of Theory by many Additions of his own As to what concern'd Affairs of State apparent it is that he was a most prudent Counsellor for when Croesus sent to make a League with the Milesians he oppos'd it with all his might which afterwards when Cyrus obtain'd the Victory prov'd the preservation of the City Heraclides reports him greatly addicted to a solitary and private Life Some there are who say he was marry'd and that he had a Son whom he call'd Cibissus But others affirm that he persevered a Batchelor and made his Sisters Son his Heir by Adoption Insomuch that being demanded why he took no care to leave Off-spring behind him His reply was because he lov'd his Children too well At another time his Mother pressing him to marry he answer'd It was too soon Afterwards when he grew in years his Mother still urg'd him to Matrimony with greater importunity he told her 't was then too late Hieronymus the Rhodian in his second Book of Memorandums relates how that being desirous to shew how easie it was to grow rich foreseeing the great plenty of Oyl that would happen the next year he farm'd all the Plantations of Olives round about and by that means gain'd a vast summ of money He affirm'd that Water was the Beginning of all things and that the World was a Living Creature full of Spirits and Daemons He also distinguish'd the Seasons of the Year which he divided into three hundred sixty five Days Nor had he any person to instruct him only while he continu'd in Egypt he held a strict familiarity with the Priests of that Country The same Hieronymus relates That he measur'd the Pyramids by observing the shadows at what time they seem'd not to exceed human Proportion As Minyes relates he liv'd with Thrasybulus Tyrant of the Milesians As for what is recorded concerning the Tripos found out by the Fishermen and sent to the Wise Men by the Milesians it still remains an undoubted Truth For they say that certain Ionian young Gentlemen having bought of the Milesian Fishermen a single Cast of a Net so soon as the Net was drawn up and the Tripos appear'd a quarrel arose which could by no means be pacify'd till the Milesians sending to Delphos had this Answer return d by the Goddess Is 't your Desire Milesian youth to know How you the Golden Tripos must bestow Return and say what Phoebus here reveals Give it to Him in wisdom that excells They give it therefore to Thales he to another the other to a third until it came to Solon Who saying that only God excell'd in Wisdom advis d that it should be forthwith sent to the Temple of Delphos This story Callimachus relates another way as he had it from Leander the Milesian how that a certain Arcadian whose name was Bathycles bequeath'd a Bottle of Gold to be given to the chiefest of the Wise Men Which was accordingly given to Thales and so from one to another till it came to Thales again who thereupon sent it to Didymean Apollo with this Inscription according to the words of Callimachus Me Thales sends to Sacred Nilean King Twice to him fell the Grecian Offering But the Prose ran thus Thales the Milesian Son of Examius to Delphinian Apollo twice receiving the Guerdon of the Greeks And Eleusis in his Book of Achilles farther tells us That the person entrusted to carry the Present from one Wise Man to the other being the Son of Bathycles was call'd by the name of Thyrio with whom Alexo the Myndian also agrees However Eudemus the Gnidian and Evanthes the Milesian affirm That it was a certain friend of Croesus who receiv'd a Golden Cup from the King with a command to present it to the Wisest of the Greeks who gave it to Thales and so he went from one to another till he came to Chilo to whom when he sent to enquire of the Oracle who was wiser than himself it was answered Miso of whom more in due place Which person Eudemus mistakes for Cleobulus and Plato will have to be Periander and concerning whom Apollo made this return to Anacharsis who was sent to consult the Oracle OEtaean Myso born in Chenes I Beyond thy Fame for wisdom magnifie On the other side Daedachus the Platonic and Clearchus affirm that the Golden Present was sent by Croesus to Pittacus and so from one to another till it came to Pittacus again Moreover Andron in his Tripos relates That the Argives made a Tripos to be presented to the Wisest of the Greeks as the Guerdon of his Vertue and that Aristodemus the Spartan was adjudg'd the wisest Person who nevertheless submitted to Chilo Alceus also makes mention of Aristodemus ascribing to him that famous saying among the Spartans Wealth makes the Man no Poor Man can be good Some there are who relate
Money he delivered the one half of his Gold to Megabyztes the Priest of Diana to keep till his Return but if he never came back for the consecration of a Statue to the Goddess Of the other half he sent a good part in Presents and Offerings to Delphos From thence he accompany'd Agesilaus into Greece being call'd home to command in the Theban War at what time the Lacedemonians kindly entertain'd him and afforded him all necessary Accommodations After that taking his leave of Agesilaus who retir'd to Scilluntes in the Territory of Elea not far distant from the City whither a certain ordinary Woman called Philesia as Dentetrius the Magnesian relates together with two Children Gryllus and Diodorus which were also said to be Twins as Dinarchus reports in his Book of Divorce against Xenophon Soon after Megabyzus coming to attend the public Solemnities of the Place he receiv'd his Money with which he purchased a piece of Land and consecrated the same to the Goddess lying upon the River Selenus which bare the same name with that which ran by the Walls of Ephâ—sus There he spent his time in Hunting feasting his Friends and writing Histories Though Dinarchus affirms that his House and Lands were the free gift of the Lacedemonians Philopidas also the Spartan sent him several Dardanian Captives of which he dispos'd as he thought fit himself At what time the Eleans marching against Scilluntes while the Lacedaemonians delay'd their assistance took the Country But then the Sons of Xenophon privately withdrew themselves with a small retinue and came to Lepreum Xenophon himself also first retir'd to Elis then to Lepreum to his Sons and thence all together getting safe to Corinth there settl'd themselves At the same time the Athenians having resolv'd to assist the Lacedaemonians he sent his Sons to Athens to serve in the Wars For they had been both bred up at Sparta as Diocles relates in his Lives of the Philosophers As for Diodorus he escap'd out of the Battel without performing any remarkable Atchievment But Gryllus serving among the Cavalry for it was at the Battle of Mantinea after he had behav'd himself with a more than ordinary courage dy'd valiantly in the Throng of his Enemies as Euphorus relates in the five and twentieth Book of his History Ctephisodotus then leading the Horse and Agesilaus commanding the Foot And the same Fate befalling the Theban General for Epaminondas was slain in the same fight It is reported That when the news of the defeat was brought to Xenophon he was then offering Sacrifices with a Crown upon his Head at what time when he heard that his Son Gryllus was slain he laid aside his Crown but afterwards finding by the continuance of the Relation that he had bravely fought and dy'd honourably he put on his Crown again Some report that he did not so much as shed a Tear only sigh'd out these words I know that my Son was not Immortal Aristotle also tells us That an infinite number of Persons wrote the Praises of Gryllus and bestow'd Epitaphs upon him partly to celebrate his Name and partly to gratifie his Father Hermippus moreover asserts That Socrates wrote an Encomium of Gryllus which Timon thus derides A sorry Duad or a Leash perhaps Of Doggrel Distichs he together scrapes To claw kind Xenophon or else to please His Friend and Scholar bawling Aeschines Xenophon flourish'd in the fourth year of the ninety fourth Olympiad and he accompany'd Cyrus in his Expedition at what time Xenaretus govern'd Athens a year before the death of Socrates He dy'd according to Stesiclides in his Epitome of the Archontes and Olympiaes in the first year of the hundred and fifth Olympiad during the Government of Callidemides at what time Philip the Son of Amyntas reign'd in Macedon And Demetrius the Magnesian affirms That he was far strick'n in years at the time of his decease A person of great Vertue and among his other Excellencies a great Lover of Horsemanship Hunting and Warlike Discipline as is manifest by his Writings He was very Religious a constant Offerer of Sacrifices one who was able to judge of Religion and an exact Emulator of Socrates in every thing He wrote about forty several Treatises the Ascent of Cyrus annexing a Prologue to every particular Book but not any to the Whole the Education of Cyrus the Transactions of the Greeks and several Commentaries his Symposium and Oeconomics He wrote also of Horsemanship and of Hunting an Apology for Socrates of Seeds Hiero or the Tyrant Agesilaus the Common-wealth of Athens and Lacedaemon Which latter Demetrius the Magnesian denies to be Xenophon's It is reported also that when it was in his power to have stifl'd the Works of Thucydides he was the first who made 'em public to the World for the honour of the Author He was call'd the Athenian Muse for the sweetness of his Style For which he was envy'd by Plato as we shall declare in his Life Nor could we our selves refrain his commendations in the following Epigrams By Cyrus call'd to assist his bold Ascent The valiant Xenophon not only went But back returning he so bravely fought As one that for Immortal honour sought Then writing his bold acts he plainly shew'd How much to Socrates his Valour ow'd Then this upon his Death Tho' Thee Great Xenophon thy Native Soil For Cyrus sake condemn'd to long Exile More kindly far by Corinth entertain'd A happy life thou lead'st where mildness reign'd In some other Authors I have read that he flourish'd about the Eighty ninth Olympiad together with the rest of the Socraetics On the other side Ister asserts that he was banish'd by the Decree of Eubulus but that afterwards the same person gave his Voice for his return home Of his name there were seven in all Himself the first The second an Athenian the Brother of Pythostratus who wrote a Poem entitl'd Theseis as also the Life of Epaminondas and Pelopidas The third was a Physician of Coos A fourth who compil'd the History of Hannibal The fifth a Collector of Fabulous Prodigies The sixth a Parian and a famous Statuary The seventh a writer of Comedies after the Ancient strain The LIFE of AESCHINES Aeschines an Athenian as some say was the Son of Charinus whose Trade it was to make Sawcidges as others assert of Lysanias industrious from his Infancy And therefore he never forsook Socrates Which occasion'd that saying of his Master The Sawcidge-makers Son is the only person that ever knew how to give us respect This was he as Idomeneus relates and not Crito who advis'd Socrates to make his escape out of Prison though Plato more a friend to Aristippus will have Crito to be the Author of that good Counsel However Aeschines was question'd for it and eagerly prosecuted by Menedemus the Eretrian because he had divulg'd several Dialogues under Socrates's name and which he pretended to have receiv'd from Xantippe Of which those that bear the Title of Acephali are very
living Beasts and dead Beasts He was wont to say That Learning was an Ornament to Prosperity and a Refuge in Adversity That Parents who bred up their Children in Learning deserv'd more honour than those who had only begot ' em For the one gives them only a Being the other not only a Being but a means to live well To one that vaunted himself to be a Citizen of a great City Let that alone said he and rather boast of something that renders thee worthy of a noble and illustrious Country To one that asked him what a Friend was One Soul said he abiding in two Bodies He was wont to say there were some Men so Covetous as if they were to live always and others so Prodigal as if they were to die the next Hour To one that asked him why he tarried lâ—â—â—â—r in the Company of fair Women than others That 's a question said he for â—â—lindman Being asked what Benefit he got by the study of Philosophy he readily made answer The same that others get by the fear of the Law. Being asked which was the best way for the studious to acquire Learning Let the riper witted said he still go on and the less apprehensive never stand at a stay To a prating Fellow that pursu'd him with railing and abusive Language and at length asked him Whether he would have any more By Jove said he I never â—â—â—ded what thou said'st before Being asked how we should behave our selves to our Friends As we would said he that our Friends should behave themselves towards us He was wont to say that Justice was a vertue of the Soul that rendered to every one according to his Merit Moreover that Learning was a good Pastport to bring a Man to old Age. Phavorinus also in his second Book of Commentaries recites a Saying of his which he had always in his Mouth Oh Friends there is no Friend And thus much for his Sentences and Repartees He wrote a vast number of Books of which I think it requisite to set down a Catalogue to the end the vigour of his Judgment and his indefatigable Industry in all manner of Learning may appear In the first place three Books of the Philosophy of Anchytas one of the Philosophy of Spensippus and Antipas one of that which is drawn from the Doctrine of Archytas and Timaus one against the decrees of Melissus one against the Constitutions of Alcmaeon one against the Pythagoreans one against Gorgias one against Zenocrates one against the Opinions of Zeno one against the Constitutions of the Pythagoreans one entituled Pythicus one Merinthus and another Menexenus Then three Books of Philosophy one of Science two more of the Sciences one of Doctrine two of the Introduction to Arts one of Art then two more of Art and two more of the liberal Arts one Entituled Methodic Phisics One of Unity one of a Prince one of the Idea one of Physic three of Nature one of Motion three of the Elements Thirty eight of things Natural according to the Elements Of Plato's Laws three his Banquet one of Good three Alexander or of Colonies one two of Plato's Commonwealth Oeconomy one one of Friendship of Stones one of the Soul one questions concerning the Soul one two of Plants one of Animal Compounded one of Animals Fabulous nine of Animals eight of their Dissection one of the Election of things Anatomic one of things that belong to the Memory one of Physiognomy one of the Signs of Tempests one of Physic two concerning Problems to things that belong to the Sight six of Problems drawn from Democritus Mathematics One of Mathematics one of Magnitude one of the speculation of Astronomical things one of Music and one more of Pythionic Music Poetry One of Poesy two of the Art of Poetry three of Poets of Words one of Similitudes one one of Tragedies one of the Victory of Dionysius six of Homeric ambiguities Some Verses to Democritus that begin O venerable Angel of the Gods. His Elogies that begin Daughter of fairest Mother In a word all his Poems containing forty five Thousand three Hundred and thirty Verses Rhetoric A Book of Rhetoric entituled Gryllus One of Art for the Introduction of Theodectes one of a Sophister one of the division of Enthymemes one of Proverbs one of Exhortations Rhetorical Enthymemes Logic. One of Species and Genus one of Proper one of Contraries one of Predicaments one of a Proposition two of Syllogisms one more of Syllogisms and Definitions two of Collections two of Epicheremes Twenty five Epicheremic Questions three Books of Comments upon Epicheremes nine of the first Analytics two of the latter large Analytics one of divisible things Seventeen of Divisions two of Topics for Definitions one of things that are before the Places seven of the terms of Topic two of Questions to be demanded one of Solutions of the same Questions one of things that are spoken several ways or according to the same Proposition two of Question and Answer one of Questions appertaining to Learning four of Sophistioal Divisions four of contentious Divisions one of Pythionic Arguments Ethics One of honest one of good one of better one of what is to be chosen and of its Accidents one of voluntary one of the Passions one of Pleasure four of moral Vertues three concerning oppositions of Vertue one of Love one of Friendship two containing questions of Friendship four of Justice two of just things two of just Actions one of Anger one of Patience Oâ—conomics One of Oeconomy one of Prayer one called the Banquet one of Riches one of Nobility Politics One of Calumnies to Alexander one of a Kingdom two of a Commonwealth eight of Political Hearing as well as Theophrastus of a Hundred and eight sorts of Common-wealths of Democracy Oligarchy Aristocracy and Tyranny two concerning Plato's Commonwealth four of Laws one of the Laws of Recommendation one of Right one of Counsel one of Olimpionics one of Mechanic Arts. His Epistles are very numerous some of which are written to Philip four to Alexander nine to Antipater one to Mentor one to Ariston one to Olympias one to Epâ—estion and one to Themistagoras lastly one to Philoxenus In short we also find twelve Books of things without order and fourteen of those things that have been briefly summed up And this is the number of his Writings amounting in all to Forty five Thousand three Hundred and thirty Verses of which we are now briefly to sum up the Matter and Doctrine therein contain'd which may be called an Epitome of Aristotle's Philosophy He held That Philosophy was to be divided into two Principal Members of which the one was Practical and the other Theoretical That Practical Philosophy was to be divided into Oeconomical and Political to which all the business of this World both private and public may be referr'd and that the other Division into Physical and Logical belonged to Speculation As for Logic he proposes it as an exact Instrument for the handling of
concerning the Soul one of Sleeping and Waking one of Labours one of old Age one of Thoughts four of the Sight one of things that change their Colour one of Tears entituled Callisthenes two of hearing one of the Diversity of the volces of Animals of the same sort one of Odours two of Torment one of Folly one of the Palsiâ— one of the Epilepsie one of the Vertigo and dazling of the Sight one of the fainting of the Heart one of Suffocation one of Sweat one of the Pestilence Mathematics A Book of Numbers one of Indivisible Lines one of Measures one of Harmony three of Music another of Music one of Great and Small one of Images one of Twi-lights and Meridionals one of Seasons one of â—â—thmetical Histories according to Augmentation four of Geometrical Histories â—â—â— Astrological Histories one of Democritus's Astrology Discourse A Book of the Art of Rhetoric one of Precepts for the Art of Rhetoric seven sorts of the Art of Rhetoric one of the Art of Poetry one of Soloâ—cisins one of a Word one of proper Orations of judicial Orations one of Proposition and Narration one of the Exemplar one of the Collection of Words one of Proverbs one of Sentences one of Favour one of Provocation to Laughter one of Beauty of Praise of Injuries of Flattery of Tumult of Comedy one of History six Books of the History of things spoken of God of the Praises of the Gods three of Lives one of Solemnities one of Confabulations a Collection of Diogenes's Propositions one of Calumny two of things invented Of Reason One how many ways a a Man may understand one of true and false three of false two of terms one of differences one of Signs five containing a Collection of Problems one of the Judgment upon Syllogisms one of the solution of Syllogisms one of Enthymemes two of Epicheremes Eighteen Epicheremes one of Affirmation and Negation one of Occasions or Contradictions an Epitome of Definitions two of Divisions one of Causes an Epitome of Analytics three of the first Analytics seven of the latter a Preamble of Topics two of the deducation of Places one of the Speculation of things that belong to contentious Discourse two of Sophisms one of Solutions one of simple doubts three of Controversies three Questions Twenty four other Questions one of the Collections of Metrodorus one of Zenocratic Questions Of Manners Of divine Felicity another of human Felicity of Voluntary of the Passions of Vertue of the differences of the Vertues one of Pleasure as well as Aristotle of Choice of Counsel of Wise Men of Faith reposed without cunning three of Friendship one entituled Amatorious another of Love two of Liberallity one of Pleasure Men take in Lying of Dissimulation of Moral Figures of Moral Schools Of Otconomics Of Piety of the means to instruct Children of Vertue of Discipline of Frugality of what it is to give of Experience three Books of Epistles more Epistles to Astycreon Phâ—â—ias and Nicanor Of Commonwealths Two Abstracts of Plaâ—â—'s Common-wealth of the Condition of a good Republic three Books of Civil things four of Civil Customs two of Government four of Politics for the time three of Legislators An Epitome of the Laws in ten Books one of Laws twenty four of Laws disposed according to Order and Alphabet one of unjust Laws one of an Oath one to shew how Cities may be peopl'd Of Kingdoms One of a Kingdom two more of a Kingdom one of the Education of a King one of Tyranny one of Kingdom to Cassander one of Riches All these Books and Treatises were composed by Theophrastus I also met with his Will in these words My will shall be well and duly performed â—â— I hope if when I come to dye it be no otherwise executed than I have enjoyned it by this my Testament First I give to Melanthus and Pancreon the Sons of Leo all my Moveables that belong to â—ly House For what Hipparchus obliged me withal I would have it expended upon the Reparations of the School and for adorning the Theatre much beâ—… it be possible than it was before and â—et the Statue of Aristotle be set up in the Oratory of the said School with all the sacred Jewels that were there before I would have also rebuilt the Portico adjoyning to the same School in the same condition it was before or better if possible and that the Map of the World be set up aâ— the lower End and that an Altar be â— rected not far from it the same in formâ—… the other whether for Decency or Perfection Moreover my Will is That the Statue of Nicomachus be finished aâ—… gave order to Praxiteles but as for the Expences of setting it up let him defray that charge himself and let it be set up where my Executors shall think moâ—… Convenient whom I have for that purpose named in my Will. Thus much in reference to the Oratory and its sacred Jewels Moreover I bequeath to my friends who are specially nominated in this my Will and to those that will spend their time with them in Learning and Philosophy my Garden Walk and Hâ—â—ses adjoyning upon condition however that none of them shall claim any particular property therein nor go about to alienate 'em from their proper use but that they shall be enjoyed in Common by 'em all as a sacred place where they may similiarily visit one another and discourse together like good friends And these are they to whom I bequeath this Common Possession viz. Hipparchus Nelâ—â—â— Callio Demoticus Demaratus Calliâ—thâ—ues Melantus Panâ—reoâ— and Niâ—â—ppus to whom I add Aristotle the Son of Midias and Pythias who if he please to addict himself to Philosophy may enjoy equal Privileges with the rest I recommend him to his most ancient Friends to take care that he be instructed in Philosophy For my part I desire to be buried in any part of the Garden where they shall think most convenient charging them not to be at any superfluous Expence either upon my Funeral or upon my Tomb. Which being done my Will is That Pompylus who lives in the House take care of every thing as he did before To which purpose I recommend him to all that shall enjoy the forementioned Privileges and that it be as much to his profit as may be Moreover it is my Will as I have formerly testified to Melantus and Pancreon That there be an Assignation of two thousand Drachma's to Pompylus and Threptes my free'd Bondmen who have served me faithfully and That this Assignation be made upon Hipparchus besides those other Emoluments which they have received at my hands and that the said Assignation be made over to them firmly in their own Names Moreover I give them Sotomales and a Servant Maid As for my Boys it is my Will that Molo Cymo and Parmeno be forthwith set at Liberty As for Manes and Callias I will not have them enfranchized till they have laboured four years longer in the Garden so that there
Philosophical sometimes intermixed with Rhetorical vigour and force of Eloquence Understanding that the Athenians had pulled down his Images However said he they have not overturned that Vertue for which they were set up He was wont to say that the Eye-brows were Members which were not to be despised because of their smallness for that by them we might understand the whole course of our Lives that Riches were not only blind but Fortune their Mistress That Eloquence had as much power in Republicks as the Sword in War. One day beholding a young Debauch that liv'd a desolute Life Look there said he a perfect Mercury with a Belly Beard and Privy-Parts When he saw Men puffed up with Honour he was wont to say That the growing height should be taken down and only the understanding left behind He held it for a Maxim That young Men were to pay Reverence to their Parents at Home and in the Streets and when they were alone to respect themselves Moreover that it was not proper for a Man to visit his Friends in Prosperity without being called We meet with twenty more of the same Name all Persons of note and worthy to be remmembred The first Orator of Chalcedon the second our Philosopher the third a Peripatetic of Constantinople the fourth sirnamed Graphicus a Person ready in Discourse and a Painter withal the fifth an Aspadian and Disciple of of Apollodorus the Solensian the sixth a Calatinian who wrote twenty Books of Asia and Europe and eight more of the acts of Antiochus and Ptolemy and of the Government of Africa under their Reigns the eighth a Sophister who wrote of the Art of Rhetoric while he lived at Alexandria the ninth a Grammarian of Adramytum Sirnam'd Ixion because he was thought to have put some affront upon Juno the tenth a Grammarian of Cyrene sirnamed Stannus a Person of great Reputation the eleventh a Sceptian rich noble and a Lover of all learned Men who left his Estate to Metrodorus the twelfth a Grammarian of Erythraea registred among the Citizens of Temna the thirteenth a Bithynian the Son of Diphylus a Stoic and Disciple of Panaetius the Rhodian the fourteenth an Orator of Smyrna All these wrote in Prose The Poets of this name the first was a Comedian the second an Epic Poet of whose Writings we find nothing extant but these Verses against Envious Persons The Man whom lately Envious Fend So hotly to the Grave pursu'd How do they now his Aid implore That wrought his Bane but just before They who contemn'd the vigorous Life Are for the Tombstone now at strife The Man was scorn'd who Shadows claim'd And Potent Cities are inflam'd To War they go and slaughter make As if the Idol were awake And saw well pleased how bloody War Reveng'd his causless Massacre The third of Trasus and a writer of Satyrs The fourth a troublesome Scribler of Iambics The fifth a Statuary of whom Polemo makes mention The sixth and last an Erythraean both a Historian and a Rhetorician The LIFE of HERACLIDES HERACLIDES an Heracleote the Son of Euthyphron was a Person of a great Estate He came from Pontus to Athens where he made it his Business to hear the Philosophers and among the rest Spensippus to whom he first became a Scholar after that he went among the Pythagoreans in imitation of Plato and lastly was a Hearer of Aristotle as Sotio testifies in his Book of Successions He was very gorgeous in his Apparel He was shaped squat and with his Belly strutting out so that they gave him the nickname of Pompic as one that made a great Show in the Streets instead of Pontic otherwise he was a Man grave and of a graceful Deportment His Works also demonstrate the Excellency and soundness of his Judgment And first his Dialogues about the institution of evil Manners and Behaviour One of Justice one of Temperance one of Piety one of Strength one of Vertue one of Vertue so generally taken of Felicity of a Prince of Laws and things that are agreeable with them of Words of Bargains of forc'd Love otherwise entituled Clinias of the Understanding of the Soul of the Soul and Nature of Images against Democritus of Heaven of things in Hell two Books of Lives of the Causes of Sickness of Good against Leno against Metto of the age of Homer and Hesiod and Archilochus in two Books a tract of Music of things written by Sophocles and Euripides of Music in two Books one entituled Theorematic of the three Tragic Poets Characters four enarrations of Heraclitus an Enarration to Democritus two Books of Solutions advertisements to Dionysius of Rhetoric in two Books the Duty of an Orator Entituled Protagoras the History of the Pythagoreans of Inventions Here we are to understand that he handles some of these Subjects under Comical Fictions as Pleasure and Chastity others under Tragical Fictions as Piety Power and those things that are in Hell. He also keeps close to the Character of the Persons whom he introduces in his Dialogues so that still a Philosopher speaks like a Philosopher a Captain like a Captain a Citizen like a Citizen And besides those Dialogues already mentioned we meet with others that are of his Composition concerning Geometry and Logic In short he was a Man to whom nothing came amiss as being furnished both with Matter Phrases and Words for all manner of Subjects and Discourses Some report that he set his Country free from the yoak of Tyranny after he had put to death the Tyrant that held it in Subjection and among the rest Demetrius the Magnesian in his Homonymia's not only asserts this for Truth but recites another Story of him how that he charged one of his Familiar Friend to hide his Body after his Decease where it might not be found and that he should lay in his Bed a certain Snake which he had privately foster'd in his House from a young one on purpose that they might think he was taken by the Gods up into Heaven That his Friend did as he was ordered but that the Imposture waâ— discover'd For his Fellow-Citizens flocking from all Parts to deisy him with their Encomiums the silly Snake terrified with the noise came hissing from under the Bed-cloths and frighted all the Company out of the Room By which means the Cheat being discovered Heraclides waâ— adjudged quite another sort of a Man than he design'd to have been which was the Reason we made him this Epigram Great Heraclides thought to cheat the World To leave between his Sheets a Serpent furl'd As if the Gods had ravish'd their Delight To tast Ambrosial Food with them that Night T is true the Dragon might be call'd a Beast But yet more Beast was he with Heaven to jest For which with a swift Palsey struck his End Shew'd us how vainly Men with Gods contend Hippobotus avers the same But Hermippus tells the Story of his Death quite another way For he says that the Heraâ—…es seeing their Country
to him as one that had skill to put them into Order There were in all six Menippi The first was he that wrote of the Lydian Affairs and made an Abridgment of Xanthus The Second was this Cynick The third was a Stratonicean Sophist and a Carian by Nation The fourth a Statuary The Fifth and the Sixth were Painters Apollodorus makes mention of both these And the Books of the Cynick are in all Thirteen viz. His Evocation of Ghosts his Wills his Letters which he embellished with the Names and Persons of the Gods against the Naturallists against the Mathematicians against the Literators Against the Birth-days of Epicurus and the Twentieth Days celebrated by his Followers and so the rest in order The LIFE of MENEDEMVS MENEDEMUS was the Scholar of * Colotes of Lampsacos This Man as we are told by Hippobotus arrived to that degree of Extravagancy as to take upon him the habit of a Fury and to go up and down saying He was come from the nether World to spy out Peoples Sins that so at his return down he might acquaint the Daemons there with them And this was the kind of Garb he wore A dark-coloured Gown down to his Feet and girt about him with a Purple Girdle an Arcadian Bonnet on his Head having the twelve signs of the Zodiack interwoven in it Tragick Buskins on his Feet a huge long Beard and an ashen Stick in his Hand And these are the Lives of each of the Cynick Philosophers to which we will subjoin what they hold in common among them For we esteem this as a Sect in Philosophy and not as some think it as only an affected way of Living Their Opinion therefore is that Logicks and Physicks should be laid aside in which they agree with Aristo of Chios and that we ought to addict our selves wholly to Morals And what some ascribe to Socrates that Diocles attributes to Diogenes saying he was wont to say we should make it our Enquiry VVhat 's good or bad within our proper Doors They decline also the * ordinary Course of Arts. Therefore Antisthenes was used to say sober Persons should never learn Letters for fear they should be perverted by other Mens Reasonings They also take away Geometry Musick and all such kind of things Diogenes therefore said once to one that shewed him a new Sun-dial Ay it is a fine thing and very useful to prevent one from loosing ones Dinner To one that made Ostentation to him of his Skill in Musick he said Counsells of Men rule Towns and Houses too Which playing on the Fiddle will not do They likewise hold That a Life agreeable to Vertue is a Man's last Good as Antisthenes tells us in his Hercules in which they exactly agree with the Stoicks For there is a kind of Affinity betwixt these two Sects which hath made some to define Cynicism to be a short Cut unto Vertue And Zeno the Cittiean lived like them They are moreover for a very mean way of Living and for using only a necessary Diet and wearing nothing but old thredbare Mantles and contemn Wealth Honour and Parentage And therefore some live altogether upon Herbs and cold Water and use such places for Shelter as they next meet with and live in Tubs as did Diogenes who would often say It was the Property of the Gods to need nothing and of such as were like the Gods to make use of but few things They believe also that Vertue may be acquired as Antisthenes writes in his Hercules And that a wise Man should never be rejected And that he merits Love. And that he will never do amiss And that he is a Friend to his Like And that he commits nothing to Fortune But the things in the midst betwixt Vertue and Vice they term Indifferents in the same manner with Aristo of Chios And these are the Cynicks we will next pass to the Stoicks who began in Zeno who was Disciple to Crates Diogenes Laertius Containing the Lives Opinions and Sayings Of the most Eminent PHILOSOPHERS The Seventh Book Translated from the Greek by R. M. The LIFE of ZENO ZENO the Son of Mnaseas or Demeas a Cittiean was born in a City of the Greeks in the Island of Cyprus inhabited by the Phoenicians He was wry-neck'd with his Head leaning more to one Shoulder than the other as Timotheus the Athenian relates in his Lives of the Philosophers And Apollonius the Tyrian reports him to have been very lean and slender of Body very tall and of a swarthy Complexion For which Reason there were some that Nick-nam'd him The Aegyptian Sprigg or Vine-Branch as Chrysippus testifies in his first Book of Proverbs Moreover his Thighs were always swollen to excess his Joints ill compacted and weak Therefore as Perseus writes in his Symposiacs he declin'd all Invitations to plentiful Feasts feeding most heartily upon Figs either green or dry'd in the Sun. He was a â—â—earer of Crates as already has been said Afterwards he adher'd to Stilpo and Xenocrates for Ten Years together as Timocrates asserts in his Dio. At what time he also very much frequented Polemo's School Hecaton likewise and Apollonius the Tyrian report that upon his consulting the Oracle What Course was fittest for a Man to take that intended to regulate and govern his Life after the best manner The Deity return'd for Answer That he should keep Consortship with the Dead Upon which he fell to reading the Writings of the Ancients As for Crates he met with him by this Accident Being bound for Greece in a Vessel from Phoenicia which he had laden with Purple he was cast away not far from the Piraeum Thereupon in a deep Melancholy for his Loss he came to Athens at that time Thirty years of Age he sate himself down in a Book-Seller's Shop When after he had read a while in the Second Book of Xenophon's Commentaries pleas'd with the Subject he enquir'd where any such Men dwelt The Words were no sooner out of his Mouth but Crates accidentally passing by the Book-seller pointing to him bid him follow that man. And so from that time forward he became a Hearer of Crates whose Philosophy as being that for which he had a great Reverence he readily and quickly learnt but his Modesty would never permit him to affect the impudent Behaviour of Cynic Moroseness Crates therefore having a mind to cure him of that same Bashfulness gave him a Pot of Lentil-Potage to carry through the Street call'd Keramicum but perceiving him to be asham'd that he hid his Pot under his Garment with a Slap of his Cane he brake the Pipkin so that the Liquid Potage ran down Zeno's Heels of a Colour somewhat ignominious Upon which Zeno nimbly mending his Pace Crates cry'd out Hey You Merchant of Eâ—lskins whither away so fast The Mischance will never spoil thy Marriage Thus for some time he was a Hearer of Crates at what time having written his Common-wealth several jok'd upon him and
said * They were only the F t s of the Dog's Tail. Several other Treatises he wrote upon various Subjects under the following Titles Of Life according to Nature Of Instinct or the Nature of Man. Of the Affections Of Decency Of the Sight Of the Law. Of Grecian Education Of the Whole Of Signs Pythagoricals Vniversals Of Words Five Homerical Problemes Of Poetry Of the Hearing He was also the Author of certain Solutions of Questions relating to several Sciences Two Books of Confutations Commentaries Crates's Morals which were all his Works At length he left Crates and for twenty years together heard the Persons before-nam'd at what time he is reported to have us'd this Expression 'T was then that I only sail'd with a prosperous Gale when I suffer'd Shipwrack Some assert that he spoke thus when he sojourn'd with Crates But others ascertain us that he liv'd at Athens when his Ship was cast away and that when he heard the News he cry'd out * Thou dost well O Fortune thus to compel me to a Thread bare Cloak and the Stoa or the Philosopher Portico Betaking himself therefore to the Poecile or the Vary-colour'd Portico so call'd from the great variety of Painting with which it was adoâ—â—d by the hand of Polygnotus designing it a Place of Peace and Quiet that had been a Place of Sedition he there began to teach his Philosophy and read upon several Subjects For in that Place during the Government of the Thirty Tyrants no less than fourteen hundred of the Athenians had been put to Death Thither a great Number of Disciples flock'd to him and for that reason they were call'd Stoics who before from his own Name were call'd Zenonians as Epicurus testifies in his Epistles Formerly also the Poets that frequented that Place were call'd in like manner by the Name of Stoics according to Eratosthenes in his Eighth Book of the Ancient Comedy by whose means the Name became very numerous By this time the Athenians had a high Esteem for Zeno insomuch that they entrusted him with the Keys of the City-Gates and honour'd him with a Crown of Gold and a Brazen Statue And the same Honours his own Countrymen conferr'd upon him believing his Statue to be an Ornament to their City The Cittians of Sidon paid him the same Respect Antigonus also was his great Admirer and when he came to Athen's always went to hear him and made him frequent Invitations to his own Court. To which though he gave modest Denials himself yet he sent Persaeus one of his familiar Acquaintance the Son of Demetrius a Cittian by Birth who flourish'd in the hundred and thirtieth Olympiad at what time Zeno was far stricken in years The Epistle sent him by Antigonus ran in these Words as it is recited by Apollonius the Tyrian in his Life of Zeno. King Antigonus to Zeno the Philosopher Greeting I Am apt to believe that Fortune and Honour have render'd my Life much more remarkable than Thine But on the other side for Learning Knowledge and perfect Happiness I cannot but think thee far above my self Therefore have We sent thee this Invitation to Our Court deeming thou will not be so unkind as to deny Our Request By all means therefore be sure to let Me enjoy thy Society upon the Recent of This assuring thee that thou shalt not be only Mine but the Instructer of all the Macedonians For he that is able to teach and conduct to Virtue the Prince of the Macedonians must of necessity be no less sufficient to instruct his Subjects in the Noble Lessons of Fortitude and Probity For such as is the Guide and Leader 't is most probable that such will be the Disciples To which Zeno return'd the following Answer Zeno to King Antigonus Health I Applaud thy Desire of Learning as being really true and tending altogether to Benefit not Vulgar which only drives â—â— the Corruption of Manners for he that applies himself to the Love of Wisdom decining those common Pleasures of the Croâ—â— of Mortals which only effeminate the Soâ—â— of Youth not only shews himself by Nature but by Choice inclin'd to Virtue and Gallaâ—try And such a Person endu'd with â— Noble and Generous Mind with less Practice so his Teacher not being wanting â—â— his Instructions will readily and easily â—â—tain to that Perfection which he aims 〈…〉 Now then as for my self I lie fetter'd with the Distempers of Old Age in the Eightieth Year of my Age and therefore the Happiness of attending thy Person is deny'd me But I have sent thee one of my Disciples for Learning Instruction and what concerns the Mind a Person equal to my self but far surpassing me in Strength of Body with whom conversing Thou wilt not want whatever may conduce to compleat thy Felicity With this Epistle he sent away Persaeus and Philonides the Theban of whose Familiarity with Antigonus Epicurus makes mention in his Epistle to his Brother Aristobulus To which I thought fit to add the Decree which the Athenians made in his behalf Of which this is the Copy The DECREE ARrhenides then Governor in the Ward of Acamantis during the Sitting of the Fifth Prutany the Thirteenth Day of August and the Three and Twentieth of the Sitting of the said Prutany the Assembly of the Chief Magistrates Hippo Gratistoteles Xynipeteo Thraso the Son of Thraso the Anacaean with the rest of the Court thus Decreed Whereas Zeno the Son of Mnaseus the Cittian has for many years liv'd a Philosophical Life in this City and in all things has behav'd himself like a Person of Virtue and Sincerity exhorting all Men that sought his Instruction to Honesty and Frugality as also in his own Person setting a fair Example before their Eyes by leading a Life altogether conformable to his Precepts wishing him therefore all good Fortune the People have thought meet to give a public Mark of their Commendations of Zeno and to crown him with a Crown of Gold according to the Laws as the Reward of his Virtue and Temperance and further to erect for him a public Monument in the Ceramicum Moreover for making the Crown and building the Tomb the People have made choice of five Athenians who shall also take care that this Decree be ingrav'd by the Public Scribe upon two Pillars of which one shall be set up in the Academy the other in the Lycaeum and the public Treasurer to pay the Charges of the Engraving to the end all men may know that the People of Athens understand how â—o value good Men both living and after their Decease For Surveyors also they make Choice of Thraso the Anacaean Philocles the Pyraean Phoedrus the Anaphlystian Melo the Acarnean Mycethus the Sympelletean and Dio the Poeanean Antigonus the Carystian affirms That Zeno never deny'd himself to be a Cittian For he himself being one who contributed to the Structure of the Bath and being present when Zeno beheld the Inscription of Zeno the Philosopher upon the
Person Again What is not in the City is neither at home in the House but there is ne'r a Well in the City therefore not in the House Again There is a certain Thing call'd a Head but thou hast not that Thing therefore thou hast ne'r a Head. In like manner He that is at Megara is not at Athens but there is a Man at Megara therefore there is no Man at Athens In like manner What a man speaks passes through his Mouth but he speaks Cart therefore a Cart passes through his Mouth Lastly What thou didst never lose that thou hast thou never didst lose Horns therefore thou hast Horns Moreover there are not wanting some that foully bespatter Chrysippus and tax him for having written many things obscenely For that in his History of the Ancient Naturalists he feigns many scurrilous things of Juno and Jupiter reciting in six hundred Verses those things which no other then a foul-mouth'd Person would have utter'd fitter for a Brothel-House then to be spoken of the Gods though he applauds it for a Natural Allegory For which Reason it was left out by those that collected the Catalogues of Books in those Times for that neither Polemo nor Hypsicrates nor Antigonus make any mention of it That in his Common-wealth he allows a Community between Mothers Daughters and Sons And that he vents the same Paradoxes in his Treatise of those Things which are to be preferr'd for their own sakes That in his Book of the Law he allows and exhorts People to eat their Dead In his Second Book of Livelihood and Trade endeavouring to find out a way how a Wise Man might deal in the World and to what end he might be admitted to seek after Gain If for the sake of a Livelihood says he Life is an indifferent thing If for Pleasure's sake that is also an indifferent thing If for Virtue 's sake that alone is sufficient to render Life happy Besides the ways of gaining are very ridiculous for if a Man be supply'd by his Prince he must creep and cringe for it if he accept from his Friend his own Friendship is bought if he gain by his Wisdom that also becomes Mercenary And these are the Extravagancies which they lay to his Charge Now then to give a Catalogue of his Works which are highly esteem'd among others we find 'em number'd up in this Order Logical Topics Logical Questions Philosophical Questions Philosophical Considerations Logical Terminations Six Books to Metrodorus of Logical Names his Art of Logic against Zeno. To Aristagorus of conjoyn'd Probabilities to Dioscorides The first Syntaxis Of Logical Moods relating to Things of Enunciates of Compound Enunciates of Connex'd Propositions to Athenades of Negations to Aristagoras of Predicables to Athenodorus of Things according to Privation to Thearus of the Best Enunciates to Dio of the Difference of Indefinites of Things spoken according to Time in Two Books of Perfect Enunciates in Two Books of Truth disjoyn'd to Gorgippides of Truth conjoyn'd to the same Person in Four Books of Consequences of the Number Three of Possibles to Clitus in Four Books of Significations to Philo one Book What Things are false in one Book The Second Syntax of Precepts Two Books of Interrogations in Two Books of Answers in Four Books An Epitome of Answers in one Book of Questions again Two Books of Answers in One Book The Third Syntax Of the Predicaments to Metrodorus in Ten Books of Right and Crooked Lines to Philanthus of Conjunctions to Apollodorus of the Predicaments to Pasylus in Four Books The Fourth Syntax Of the Five Cases in one Book of Enunciates defin'd according to the Subject in one Book of Appellatives of Explanation to Stesagoras in Two Books A Logical Argument concerning Words and Speech which consists of Words The First Syntaxis Of single and compound Enunciates in Six Books of Expressions to Sosigenes and Alexander in Five Books of the Inequality of Words to Dio in Four Books of some Questions of Soloecisms one Book Soloecizing Orations to Dionysius of Orations contrary to Custom Readings to Dionysius The Second Syntax Of the Elements of Speech five Books Of the Order of Words in those things which are spoken Of the Order and Elements of those things that are spoken to Philip in Three Books Of the Elements to Nicias one Book of what may be said in reference to other things The Third Syntax Against those that never divide of Ambiguities one Book of the Connexion of Tropic Amphibology An Answer to Panthoedus concerning Ambiguities of Introduction to Ambiguities in Five Books An Epitome of Ambiguities to Epicrates Additions to the Introduction of Ambiguities Logical Places for Orations and Tropes The First Syntax The Art of weaving Orations and Tropes to Dioscorides of Orations three Books Of the Stability of the Moods in two Books to Stesagoras A Comparison between Tropical Enunciates in one Book Of reciprocal and conjoyn'd Orations in one Book to Agatho of consequent Problems in one Book of Conclusions to Aristagoras in one Book That the same Oration may consist of several Moods An Answer to them that aver the same Oration may be Syllogistical and not Syllogistical An Answer to the Objections against Sillogistical Solutions An Answer to Philo Of Tropes to Timostratus Logic conjoyn'd to Timocrates and Philomathes Of Orationsand Tropicks one Book The Second Syntax Of concluding Orations to Zeno in one Book of primary Sillogisins wanting Demonstration to Zeno one Book of the Solution of Sillogisms one Book of Fallacious Orations to Pasylus Of the Speculations of Syllogisms Of Introductory Sillogisms in Answer to Zeno in three Books Of the false Figures of Sillogisms Sillogistical Orations by way of Analysis in such as wanted Demonstration that is Tropical Questions to Zeno Philomathes The Third Syntax Of incident Orations to Athenades In Answer to the Conjunctives of Amenius The Fourth Syntax Of Hypotheses to Meleager Hypothetical Orations relating to Introduction Hypothetical Speculations falsly superscrib'd to Alexander Of Expositions to Leodamus The Fifth Syntax Of Introduction to Palshood of Fallacy to Aristocreon In answer to those who believe True and False to be the same thing In answer to those that analize a false Oration by way of Division to Aristocreon Two Demonstrations that Infinities cannot be divided An Answer to the Objections to the Divisions of Infinite of the Solution of false Oration to Aristocreon A Solution of Hedyllus Hypotheses's to Aristocreon and Apellas The Seventh Syntax In answer to those that affirm a false Oration has false Assertions of Negation to Aristocreon Negative Orations to Gymnasius of pitiful Oratory to Stesagoras of Orations against Suppositions and of Quiescents of Involv'd to Aristobulus of Latent to Athenades The Eighth Syntax Of Profitable to Menacrates of Orations consisting of Infinite and Finite to Pasylus of the Argument call'd Outis to Epicrates The Ninth Syntax Of Sophisms to Heraclides and Pollis of ambiguous Logical Orations in five Books to Dioscorides In answer