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A88706	The true effigies, or portraicture of the chief philosophers, historians, poets, grammarians, and oratours. Or, A compendious view of each, both dignified with, and distinguished by, their peculiar characters. By Ed. Larkin, A.M. late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now of Limesfield in Surrey minister	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L445; Thomason E1786_1; ESTC R202702	74,354	230

ut scilicet multa audiamus pauca vero loquamur Therefore have we two Ears and but one Mouth that we might hear many things and speak but few Cicero tells us That this was the Philosopher which did distinguish with his hand those two Arts of Logick and Rhetorick Nam cum compresserat digitos pugnumque fecerat dialecticam a●ebat ejusmodi esse cum autem diduxerat manum dilataverat palmae illius similem eloquentiam esse dicebat When he contracted his Fingers and clenched his hand then it resembled Logick but when those Fingers were spread abroad and when he had opened his hand then did he represent Rhetorick or Eloquence It s further sayd to his great praise and honour that he did verba vertere in opera Even live as he spake there being no dis-harmony betwixt his Conversation and Doctrines So that his Life was proposed to the Athenians as a Pattern for them to imitate He is stiled by a learned man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A severe Philosopher and one that uttered very sublime things And he is called by Laertius Aegiptius palmes for the talness and procerity of his lean and slender Body Chrysippus CHrysippus the Son of Apollonius or as others will have it Apollonides and the Disciple of Zeno was an eminent Stoick His Opinions were repugnant to many of his Contemporaries He was so excellent a Logician that it was an ordinary expression in the World concerning him That it there were any use of Logick amongst the Gods they then used none other then that of Chrysippus He is called by Carneades 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the smalness of his Body who speaks further in the praise of him Nisi Chrysippus esset ego non ●ssem Unless Chrysippus had been I had not been Heinsius calls him very wittily Retiarium Chrysippum As if like to a Net he was apt to catch all men for his voluminousness and multitude of Books he was thought to emulate Epicurus and therefore was well named by Carneades Librorum ejus parasitus His Books parasite I meet not with any contemptuous or scornfull affront put on him but only with one from Zeno who playing upon his Name very disdainfully cal'd him Chesippum which word is derived from the Greek term 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies an immodest Act Cacare Laertius sayes of him How that next to Cleanthes he was the principall Member of the Stoick School Cleanthes CLeanthes a Stoick Philosopher was the Disciple of Grates and Successor to Zeno whose Philosophy he ever adhered to and propagated it to all that he could converse with Suidas saith of him that he was so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Such a great Pains-taker that he attained the name of another Hercules Being very poor and not able to supply himself with dayly Food he would suffer his Labour to be hired all Night and to be used in drawing of water and when the day was come he would spend the greatest part of that either in his private Studies or in Conferences with Disciples yet because he wrought so hard when he came to his handy Labour therefore instead of Cleanthes they would very often call him Phreanthes which being in e●pteted sayes Laertius signifies one that is an Emptier of Wells Cicero calls him notwithstanding Stoicum majorum Gentium Zenon is auditorem A Stoick of the highest Rank and the Auditor of Zeno. He was so poor that when he was the Schollar of the forementioned Zeno not being able to buy Paper for his own use he would write the Instructions which he received from his Master in Shells and Bones Anaxagoras ANaxagoras the Disciple of Milesius and the Son of Hegesibulus was called as Plutarch sayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because he asserted that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matter and Mind were the Maintainers and Preservers of all things Suidas reports that he was very rich but left all his Lands to be devoured by Cattell whence Apollonius Tyaneus took occasion to say handsomly Anaxagoram potius ovibus quam hominibus philosophatum fuisse That Anaxagoras rather philosophiz'd to Sheep then Men. At length the question being asked him by his Friends why he took no more care of his Country He forthwith stretching forth his Arm to Heaven-ward raplyed as it is in Laertius Patriam eam esse That that was his Country At last returning home and finding every thing out of order his Lands unmanur'd and untilled and his Houses ruinated he brake out into these or such like words Non essem ego salvus nisi istae periissent I had not been safe if they had not perished This Philosopher was the first man that found out the Lunary Ecclipse as Plutarch affirms in the life of Nicias for Nicias his Soldiders at the fight of one were therewith all terrified and looked upon it as a Sign of the Gods displeasure not knowing that there was a naturall cause of it Laertims also writes that he was the first too that undertook to publish to the World the Works he had composed It was his opinion of God That he was Infinita mens quae per seipsam movetur as Polydore Virgil hath recorded it Cicero hath stiled him Virum summum in maximaerum rerum scientia A man most eminently knowing in the most transcendent things Carneades Cyrenaeus CArneades Cyrenaeus called by Suidas Novae Academiae Autor The Author of a new Academy was a great Admirer of the Chrysippaean Philosophy and opponent to the Principles of the Stoick Zeno They say that he made use of the Art of Memory Cicero Gellius and Quintillian write that he was sent with others in an Embassie by the men of Athens to Rome but as soon as Cato had espyed him he informed the Senate that he was a very dangerous man and that it concerned them to be wary of dealing with him least his eloquent and winning Tongue should so master them as to make them grant whatsoever he demanded Tully extolls the Abilities of this man in this following Character Carneadis vis incredibilis illa dicendi varietas perquam esset optanda nobis qui nullam unquam in illis suis disputationibus rem defendit quam non probarit nullam oppugnavit quam non everterit How well were it to be wished that we had that incredible faculty of Carneades his Eloquence who never undertook a Cause but did maintaine never impugned one but over-threw it Whence it was sayes Cicero that it was called Vis Carneadea aut Aristotelia Either a Carneadean or Aristotelian Ability Valerius Maximus cals him Laboriosum sapientiae militem Wisdomes laborious and painfull Soldier and if Pliny may be thought worthy of Credit It was the Censor Catoes opinion and saying That it was a very difficult thing to discern the truth when this Philosopher was disputing He lived ninety yeares and as the forementioned Historian saith of him Idem illi vivendi ac Philosophandi finis fuit Aristoteles

to Hierapolis he fell lame by a Distillation which had gotten into one of his Legs and that lameness he intimated in this following Epigram being of his Composing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lipsius calls him Philosophum optimi sensus A Philosopher of the best sense and in another place Virum totum a se a Deo nihil a Fortuna A man wholly of himself and of God having nothing as from Fortune Lucian tells us in one of his Dialogues That one gave three thousand Drachmaes for this mans earthen Candlestick or Lanthorn hoping that if he might but read by that at Night he might attain to Epictetus Wisdome and be like that excellant old man This Philosopher was had in high esteem with the two Antonies his Enchiridion was writ in Greek but afterwards Latiniz'd by Angelus Politianus The Criticks have spoken very highly in the praises of it What saith Lipsius Enchiridion sane egregium Stoicae philophiae velut anima His Enchiridion is truly admirable and as it were the very Soul of the Stoick Philosophy Another saies that its a Book more heavy for weight then great for Bulk daily to be embrac'd and kiss'd and never to be out of mens hands I 'le end him with that of Dempster Epicteti Enchiridion moribus utile dissertationes graves prudentiae plenae Epictetus his Enchiridion is profitable for manners his Disputations grave full of prudence Arianus ARianus of Nicomedia the Disciple of Epictetus sir-named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The new Zenophon or Zenophon the Junior because he set forth the Dissertations of Epictetus as the other had done of Cyrus Suidas saith That he lived at Rome in the Raigns of Adrian and Marcus Antonius then Emperours by whom he was promoted to Consular Honours for his excellent Erudition as is reported by Heliconius Lipsius saies That he had Epictetus his Discourses In via Domo Schola In his Way House School as being never out of his Hands and Mouth and Heart Bodinus stiles him Virum summo ingenio summaque doctrina praeditum A man endued with an admirable Wit and with very great Learning as indeed appears by those his Commentaries upon the Renowned Epictetus Vossius admiring the sweetness of his Tongue doth also call him Alterum Zenophonta Another Zenophon for he writ History as well as Philosophy having described the Warlike Feats and Martiall Affairs of Great Alexander whereupon he is called by Coelius Rhodiginus Historicus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A truth-loving Historian There is a certain Grammarian that chargeth him with Arrogancy as one that gloried mightily in his own Writings and that would be accounted among the Greek Historians as was Great Alexander amongst the Martial Captains There was another of the Name a Poet with whose Verses Suetonius writes that Tiberius Caesar was extreamly well delighted and pleased Plotinus PLotinus named Lycopolita by learned Suidas as being an Egyptian and an Inhabitant of the City Lycus who as the same Author relates it was E Bajulo philosophus He was the Schollar or Disciple of Ammonius and the Master of Porphyrus He was a man of a spare and lean body subject unto many Corporal Infirmities and among the rest to the Falling-sickness He lived in the Raigns of Galenus Tacitus and Probus the Roman Emperours Eunapius who writ the Lives of the Sophisters calls him Magnum Plotinum The great Plotinus Theodoret one of the Greek Fathers saith That he was Origenis Auditor One of Origen's Auditours and he affirms moreover that he well understood the Traditions of the Rabbins The forementioned Eunapius further testifieth that this mans Speech was so obscure and Aenigmaticall Quod a populari captu disjunctior videbatur That it seemed to be much separated from and far above the popular Capacity Lipsius in the fourth Century of his Miscellanies stiles him Virum sapientia inclytum A man famous for his Wisdome Porphyrius POrphyrius a Philosopher of Tyre the chiefe City of the ancient Phoenicians was at the beginnig called by the name of Malchus which in the Syrian Language signifieth King wherupon Suidas saith that his Name was Basilius However he was called by his worthy and learned Master Longinus by the name of Porphyrius and that from the Purple in his Garment which is indeed an Ensigne of Majesty This man taking his leave of Longinus travelled to Rome and there heard the Philosopher Plotinus where for his Companions and Condisciples he had those two men of Fame Origen and Amelius This Author doth seem in his Works to have delivered Contradictions but the cause hereof is thought to be his finall Retractation as rejecting in the end those Principles which he did at the beginning close with In some of his Writings he endeavours to cleer that both Plato and Aristotle were of one and the same Sect. He writ against the Christians as for the time he lived in it was in the Reign of Aurelian and he continued to Tacitus and Probus Suidas in honour of his great Learning gives him this ensuing Character 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A man that formed and expressed all kinds of Philosophy And againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One promiscuously rowled in every Vertue Nicephorus in his tenth Book speaks him an Apostate from the Christian Faith and that Libanius the Sophister should account of him as it were a God Nazianzen also informes us That Julian did glory in his fabulous Lyes as though they had been the very Oracles of God He fell sick once at Lylibaeum in Sicilie but recovering of that distemper he died afterwards at Rome Maximus Tyrius MAximus Tyrius a Platonick Philosopher called by Heinsius in his Epistle Dedicatory before Horace Vir magnus Terrarum Domini praeceptor A great man and Tutor to the Emperour for by Terrarum Domini is to be understood Marcus Antoninus then Reigning what this man disputed in the Greek Tongue at Rome was afterwards Latiniz'd or made Roman by learned Heinsius who gives all his learned Disputations this excellent Eulogy Hujus viri disputationes quae ad nostram pervenerunt aetatem tales sunt ut unum quidem si excipias Platonem nemini dicendi venustate pariter ac sapientia concedant neque quisquam hodie legatur qui tam accurate ac feliciter indolem ac genium musae expresserit Platonicae The Disputes of this man which are come to our Age are such that if you do but except that one man Plato they shall be inferiour to none in sweetness of Speech and wisdome Neither can any one be now read that hath so accurately and happily expressed the Wit Spirit and Genius of the Platonick Muse No wonder therefore if Casaubonus stiles him Platonicorum mellitissimum The sweetest of Platonicks Whereunto also that description that Heinsius hath made of him doth very well accord Scriptor ex Academia Sapiens Amaenus Floridus Facundus qui ubique patrem suum refert Platonem

Miracle of Nature Others Natures utmost Strength And others otherwise Casaubon honours him with the Title of Tripos whereto all which are in doubt are to repaire And the same Grammarian further resembleth him to the ancient and wise Cato Plane quod de Catone olim dictum versatile ingenium sic illi pariter ad omnia fuisse ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcunque ageret id verissimum in eo reperiri non seria magis quam lusus evincunt Truly that which was heretofore said of Cato That he had a Wit so pregnant and prompt to every thing that you would say it was formed for the very thing whatsoever it was he was about Now that this is found to be most true in this very man his serious Affairs do not more evince it then his Sports I l'e end him with that of Heinsius Vir sine exemplo magnus A man Great without his Peer Justus Lipsius JVstus Lipsius is saluted by Pareus with the name of the Belgick Seneca and called by Schottus the very Eye of the Low Countries by Woverius Amor deliciae Generis humani The Love and Darling of Man-kind by Gruterus Apex eruditionis reconditae The top of all mysterious Learning By Dausqueius Seculi literati Sydus The Star of the learned Age and by one more Deliciae Musarum The Muses Delights Acidalius in his Readings upon Paterculus gives him this excellent ensuing Character Quem virum per omnia Diis quam hominibus ingenio propiorem uti lumen unicum numen aevi nostri colo veneror praeter omnes quos ille admiratores cultoresque ubique habuit plurimos Which man in all things for Wit more neer the Gods then Men as the onely light and Deity of our Age I love and reverence beyond those many Honourers and Admirers which he hath I l'e add to this but that of Heinsius Lipsius suavissimae quidem sed inimitabilis ut ipse judicabat ne tentandae quidem aliis eloquentiae vir Lipsius a man of most sweet and yet of unimitable Eloquence and as he himself did judge not to be aspir'd unto by any others And therefore it was well said by Gaulterus That he was Major omni invidia Above all Envy Janus Gruterus JAnus Gruterus an excellent Grammarian and Critick is commended by Caspar Barthius for his skill in correcting what in any learned Author may be amiss Vir sayes he emendandi prudentissimus ac perspicacissimus Dempster extolls him for a Critick of incomparable reading and Judgment calling him Seculi sui alterum Varronem Another Varro of that age he lived in Barthius advanceth his prudence Honesty Learning and Wit Praestantissimus Gruterus vir intime bonus prudens super quam credibile eruditus acutus But of all men Pareus bursts forth into a strange admiration of him Janus Gruterus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui vir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 criticorum hujus seculi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cujus scripta merum Nectar spirant Ambrosiam Janus Gruterus a Wonderment which man is an Eagle in the Clouds the Alpha and Omega of the Criticks of this Age whose Writings breath forth meer Nectar and Ambrosia Caspar Barthius CAspar Barthius is called by one of the Learned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and graced by Pareus with this following Periphrasis Clarissimum Germaniae lumen columen nutantium literarum The most clear light of Germany and the very Prop of staggering Learning One saith of the Books he writ that they are such that we can scarce read the Indexes of them without astonishmment much less the Books themselves Another thus Characters him Varro alter si quisquam merito dicendus qui tam multa legit ut aliquid ei scribere vacare miremur tam multa scribit quam vix quenquam legere posse credamus Worthy to be called another Varro if any man may be so named who reads so many things that we may wonder he had time to write writes so many things as that we may think no man able to read them I le end all with that Hyberbolicall Eulogy given him by one that Comments upon Musaeus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The all-seeing Eye of the Graces ΣΧΗ̄ΜΑ ΡΗΤΟΡΩ̄Ν OR THE ORATORS In their right SHAPES Antiphon ANtiphon an Orator of Athens was the first that did write an Oration and delivered Precepts concerning it whereupon he is stiled by Suidas the most ancient of the Orators of whom Cicero saith in his Brutus That no man ever went beyond him in pleading of Causes of life and death as it appeared when he pleaded his own Case No marvell therefore if the foresaid Suidas calls him Nestor and after Gorgius the Prince of Orators And Philostratus who writ the Lives of the Sophists gives him also the same Character and withall inserts the reason Because he was able to perswade in whatsoever he proposed He used to sell his Pleadings at a very high rate so that he became thereby wondrous wealthy he was Contemporary with Socrates with whom he had frequent Conferences Zenophon relates one that he had with that Philosopher he studied also Poetry and profest that the had an Art thereby to drive away all sadness Plutarch tells us that he lived in an hired House neer the Forum where he published by Pen and Paper that he could cure all griefs so that when any made their addresses to him and related the causes of their sorrows he very sweetly allayed them I read not who was his Master but Plutarch acquaints us that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His own Instructer I 'le but add a word from Thuoidides which concers him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 second to none of his time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And one that was most excellent both for Invention and Elocution Suidas saith that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Master of this Thucidides Gorgias GOrgias was a Rhetor of Scicily the Disciple of Empedocles and the Master of Isocrates and other Orators as Cicero hath recorded of whom Philostratus hath said this That as soon as he came forth into the Athenian Forum he was wont to say continually Propound to me what you please and I will forthwith speak copiously to it vanting unto them that he knew all things and could discourse excellently well on every Subject Whence sayes the same Author it was Proverbiall Gorgias his Eloquence Caelius Rhodiginus informs us that his Oratory was had in so great esteem amongst the Athenians that they would call those dayes wherein he was to plead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his Orations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He gained so much Wealth by his Rhetorick that of all the Orators which ever were he was the first that placed a Statue of beaten Gold within the Temple of Apollo Delphicus whereupon Plato meeting him returning from Delphos said unto him Behold the fair and golden Gorgias You may read more of that Statue in Pliny So sweet was this mans

scripsisset longe melius eum scripturum fuisse judicamus I believe that Musaeus his stile is far more polite and neat then Homers so that if Musaeus had written upon Homers Subject in my Opinion and Judgment he would have written much better then he Suidas saith that there were no less then three of this Name and all of them Poets Homerus HOmerus so named by the Ionians for his blindness for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Language by the Figure Metathesis signifies blind yet his proper Name was Melesigenes because he was born neer the River Meletes He is otherwise called Maeonides from his Parent Maeone though some others would needs have him to be the Son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope he was a Poet of that great Renown that no less then seven Cities strove to have the honour and glory both of his Birth and Breeding The Verses are very wel known Septem urbes pugnant genus obsapientis Homeri Smyrna Chios Colophon Ithace Pylus Argos Athenae Neither only did these 7. lay claim unto him but three times seven if we will give credit to the learned Plutarch and Suidas amongst which Rome is very urgent that he may be accounted hers Now the uncertainty hereof moved Appion the Grammarian to invoke his Ghost to come forth from the dead and to declare the Country that so the Controversie might be decided He wrote in twenty foure Books the Wars of Troy which he calls his Illias and in as many more the Travells of Vlysses which he Names his Odysses They were digested into that Order wherein we now have them not by himself but by other men and as Suidas reports chiefly by Pisistratus the Athenian Tyrant His Works were so admired by Arcesilaus that he would not take his rest untill he had read some portion of them And again in the Morning as soon as he was risen he would say Se ad Amasium ire That he was going to his Darling Alcibiades would strike that Schoolmaster in the Eare whom he found without the Books of this most renowned Author Alexander the great King of Macedon having taken a rich Cabinet from Darius whom he had overcome in Battell resolved that it should serve to keep these famous Works in Elian telleth us That Plato at the beginning studied Poetry and having compiled certain Heroick Verses he came to examine them by these noble Treatises of Homer and finding them to fall very short of this eminent Poeta Art and Faculty he forthwith tare them and burnt them Dionysius Hali●arnasensis calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The top of all whence every River Sea and Fountain flows No wonder therefore if the Painter Galaton faigned him Vomiting and all the other Poets like so many Dogs licking up what he had spued out Cicero could say Homero nemo similis None like great Homer And Velleìus Paterculus a most elegant and neat Historian could give him a Character somewhat suitable to his merit Clarissimum Homeri ingenium sine exemplo maximum qui magnitudine operum fulgore carminum solus appellaripoeta meruit in quo hoc maximum est quod neque ante illum quem ille imitaretur neque post illum qui eum imitari possit inventus est The most bright and matchless Wit of Homer who both for the greatness of his Works and the clearness of his Verses did alone deserve the Name of Poet in whom this is most glorious That there was neither any one before him for him to imitate nor any found after him that could imitate him I meet with his Epitaph in Suidas which is as followeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He flourished about 160 years before Rome the Mistress of the World was sounded Hesiodus HEsiodus was called Cumaeus from his Native Soile and Ascreus from the place of his Education he lived an hundred yeares after Homer so sayes Porphyrius and some others as it is in Suidas Plutarch writes of him That being a Boy and keeping his Fathers Flocks and Heards he was beloved of the Muses who gave him Laurell to eat whereupon he commenced a most excellent Poet and a● Homer was called Poeta Lacedaemoniorum The Poet of the Lacedaemonians so this Hesiod was stiled Poeta Helotarum The Poet of the Helots The one teaching the way of Warfare the other of Tillage The Philosopher Jeronymus reports That Pythagoras descending into Hell saw the Soule of this Hesiod fastned to a brazen Pillar and there making a most dolefull and dreadfull noise as also the Ghost of Homer compast about with Serpents and all for this cause because they uttered in their Books false things of the Gods Pliny and Columella affirm that this Poet was the first man that wrote of Agriculture The Criticks have afforded him many worthy Encomiums Hesiodi opuscula sayes Barthius Quantus Thesaurus Infucatae sunt sapientiae The Works of Hesiod how great a Treasury are they of untainted and unadulterated Wisdome And for his Stile Heinsius saith of it That it is Mitis facilis ac amaenus Mild facile and pleasant Amongst the Tragaedians he is compared to Euripides and amongst the Lyricks unto Sappho and amongst the Orators unto Isocrates Paterculus thus Characters this Poet Hesiodus vir perelegantis ingenii molissima dulcedine carminum memorabilis otii quietisque cupidissimus ut Homero tempore ita operis autoritate pr●ximus Hesiod for the clearness of his Wit and the dainty smoothness of his Verse is worthy of memory a man infinitely desirous of rest and quiet and as he was in time so also in esteem the next to Homer Suidas speaking of his death sayes that he was slain upon mistake by the two Brothers Antiphus and Climenus who in the Night thought they had been avenged on him who had been the Deflowrer of their Sister Pindarus PIndarus of Thebes the Prince of the Grecian Lyricks was Eschylus his equall he wrote in the Dorick Dialect whom Horace for his Sentences Figures and Expressions calls unimitable he being indeed a Poet so much abounding with them When Alexander the Macedonian King made an assault upon the City Thebes and took it by storm Curtius informs us that he spared the Family of Pindar for the respect and reverence that he bare him But Suidas is of opinion that it was another Pindar the Son of Scopelinus whom Alxeander so honoured though the Cosin German of this Lyrick Poet. Yet Plato stiles this man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most wise and divine And Athenaeus expresseth him to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the Greek Anthologie he is tearmed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The sweet singing Heliconian Swan As other Muses were feigned to inspire other Poets so did Polyhymnia him I 'le say no more but a word from Lipsius Pindarus ex ore humano praefert aliquid non humanum Pindar out of an humane Mouth le ts drop somewhat that is more then humane Anacreon ANacreon was a Poet of Ionia