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A18234	Preceptes of Cato with annotacions of D. Erasmus of Roterodame vere profitable for all [...]; Catonis disticha. English.	Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234-149 B.C., attributed name.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Burrant, Robert.	1553 (1553)	STC 4854; ESTC S121116	81,117	325

wisemen whose names after the common sorte and acceptacion bee these Thales Milesius Solon Salaminius Chilon Lacedemonius Pittacus Mitileneus Bias Prienensis Cleobulus Lindius Periāder corinthius These be the .vii. wisemen that commonly be so named although that some writers as Hirnippus in his booke de Sapientibus dooeth adiotgne vnto these aforesaied Epimenidem Anacharsim and other mo So likewise Hippobotus in his descripciō of philosophers dooeth numbre accoūpt Orpheus Linus Epicharmus and Pithagoras with other mo emong these seuen Neuerthelesse these seuē first named haue gotten the garlande and are as chief allowed receiued Thales named Milesius was called the first wiseman as Plato doeth testifie as afore the other and hath his surname of Miletus a Citie in Grece from whence the moste precious woulles and felles doe come beyng of a noble family and stocke called familia Theledarū he was after a Citezen of Miletus a Citie in the borders of Ionia in Grece This Thales after long experience had in the affaires of the citie gaue himself to the studie and contemplacion of naturall thinges a man excellētly learned in Philosophie and Astronomie whiche wroughte of the progression and mocion of the sunne c. And the Equinoctiū the first emong thē that searched out the secretes of Astrologie as some dooe write whiche was the first likewise that comparing the Moone her substaunce to the sunne affirmed the Moone to bee the seuen C.xx part of the Sunne The first also estemed of them that discribed the triangle the first that founde out the course and time of the yere diuidyng it into .iii. C. lxv daies as some dooe affirme and saie with other thinges mo This Thales affirmed himself moche bound to fortune for .iii. thinges Firste that he was borne a man and not a beast the second a man and not a woman the thirde a Greke and a free man and not a Barbarous or bonde man He florished aboute the seuen C.xl. yere afore the birthe of Christe And in long experience of worldly wisedome and knowelege of naturall thinges exercised after died beyng of the age of .xc. yeres as Socrates dooeth write Solō called Salaminius of Salaminia an Islāde in the sea called Euboice of the whiche Virgill in the firste twoo verses of the .vi. booke of Aeneidos maketh mencion directly almoste against Athens This Solon ordred moste holie and godlie lawes emong the Atheniens moste abhorred tirannie decreed that thei that did not coumforte and fede their parētes should be takenfor castawaies likewise those that sold their landes and patrimonie And that the childrē of all soche as did die and perishe in battaill for the common wealthe should of the communes be broughte vp and nourished whereby men were wonderfully animated and couraged to fight for their countries He florished aboute .vii. C. xiiii yeres afore Christes birthe and was a while Prince of Athens At whiche time he gaue and ordred certain Lawes emong thē full of wisedome He liued lxxx yeres and died in Cipres an Islelande of greate fame sette in the sea betwene Cilicia and Siria about iiii C. xxvii miles in compasse commaundyng his folkes as Diogenes dooeth testifie of him to cary his bones into Salaminia his awne countrie there to burne theim to Ashes and to cast them abroade therin Chilon called Lacedemonius of a toune in Peloponest made very good Preceptes whose counsaill ye shall reade herafter He was brief in speakyng and sentencious and so of him came the Prouerbe Chilonia Breuitas he was about seuen hundred and xiiii yeres before Christ Pittacus called Mytileneus of Mitilene a citie in the Islelande of Lesbos of which citie now the whole coūtrie of Lesbos is called Mitilene after that citie He was ordeined of them of Mitilene his citie the chief gouernour thereof whiche when he had gouerned .x. yeres he gaue it ouer frely When his soonne Tirrhous by chaunce sat in a Barbours shoppe at Cumes by an axe cast at him was slain the partie so taken and bounde for a murderer was brought to this Pittacus his father for iudgemente whiche lo 〈…〉 him and let him go saiyng pitie is to be preferred afore vēgeaunce shewyng in this and other like greate clemencie and pitie to be shewed in factes ignorauntly dooen He was seuen C. yeres and mo afore Christe and liued the full age of lxx and so died and at Lesbos is buried Bias called Prienes of Priene a water toune sometime vpon the sea side situate This Bias of some is preferred for wisedome afore the other This Bias wrought for the defence of his countrie and citie this feacte when that his countrie was besieged of one Aliaet he caused twoo Mules to be throughly fed and so presented thē to Aliaet the king whiche wondered that thei had yet beastes lefte emong them so fatte wherby he was minded to leaue his besiegyng therof And sēt a spie into the citie to view their state condicion whiche whē Bias perceiued a spieto come emong them he caused greate heapes of grauell to be couered with wheate and shewed theim to the kinges messenger Then the king therupon entered with theim and concluded together a peace and so by his policie the citie was saued He was a very earnest Orator and medled but in good causes he died in the lappe of his nephewe whom the Citie honourably buried whose counsailles are many and full of witte and prudēce He was in the time of the other aforesaied Cleobulus an Asiā borne in the citie of Lindus in Caria a Region of the lesser Asia betwixt Lisia Ionia beyng in the middest of the Sea As in his awne Epistle directed to Solon as in Diogenes ye maie reade he plainly declareth He was a cleane persone of strength and comelinesse he wrote as Diogenes testifieth iii. C. verses and sentences of wise doine He liued seuentie yeres full of experience and humain wisedom leauyng many monumentes testimonies of his wisedome behinde Periander Corinthius borne at Corinthus a citie of Achaia in the Easte There were three of the name as Apollidorus doeth write the first in Thessalia The seconde in Epiro now called Albania sometime Me lossa the thirde in Elide nobilitated greatly by the Epistles of S. Paule directed to the menne therof a citie sometime of greate fame and richesse This Periander of great fame emōg them wrote two hundred verses and sentences of prudēce a man of great power He liued after some writers fower skore yeres and then deceassed whose diuerse sentences Diogenes dooeth ferther at large describe and gather Thus partly I haue opened the condiciō of these seuen wisemen to you resteth onely their prudent counsailes to bee diuulgate wherein if you take peines as you haue dooen with prudēt Cato you shall not onely get your self a name immortall But deserue of God merite and of learned and vnlearned worthie thankes for so commune and publique a benefite Thus fare you well from Chepyng Wichambe the firste daie of