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Of Pliilodcimis liimlclf the following 

 are tlio principal particulars which have 

 ilercciidccl. lie was an Epicuican phi- 

 lofopher, and, as Straho informs us, a 

 native of Gadara in Syria. (Strabo, xvi. 

 p. 759.) Of his profe works which do 

 not appear to have been lolt, tliofe weci 

 p»!Topx»i5, and t4.'» tiTrojttuj^aTo'y fr/TOfix)55, 

 we believe, arc well known to clallical 

 bibliographei-s. y\i'.othcr, Tt){ Ti» ^i^o- 

 oo<pii)v (^-noc^iae, mentioned bjAthenicus 

 and Diogenes Laertius, (Vit. Philof. x. 

 3. 24.) v^•as actually found at Hercula- 

 ncum, but unfortunately deftroycd by 

 the manner of openinir. Dr. Watibn 

 informs us, in his ObfL-rvations on one 

 of Camillo Paderni's Letters, that Phi- 

 lodemus refided at Rome ; was the ac- 

 quaintance ol'Tully; and the preceptor 



Itaque turn ea, quae Mufici funt, 

 turn ea, quae Poit.ip, inventa li- 

 mul fuere ope cius potentiac, qua 

 fenfus pollent, percipicndi qualit.i- 

 tcs, qiios adcipiunt, nee non ob'ec- 

 tationcs, et mole;>idS, quae inde 

 oriuntur ; potentiae, inquam, quae 

 partim iiigenita eft, partim (tudio 

 conipara:ur. Ex ingenica enim, et 

 inrationali fcnfuum f'otcntia illc po- 

 tius ipfius A'juj7cae virtutis robur 

 aeftimat, quam e fcicntifica : quip- 

 pe cum earn mjgis evidontem, ma- 

 gifque parabilem reputet. Hoe au- 

 tem iniationale, et patens adco, 

 quod evidentia praeditiim Epicurus 

 ait, vulgo quidem reccptuni eft. 

 Etenim qui in eadcnj fcrme funt 

 haerefi, non modo fcnfum, quantum 

 ad fuam adtinet difpofitiunem, 

 requaquam inhabile 



of Lucius Pifc), the conful. We learn, 

 he adds, from Afconius Pediatius, that 

 it is this Pliilodemus of whom Cicero 

 fpeaks with that admirable mixture of 

 praifc, invective, and cxcufe, in his ora- 

 tion agaiiill Pifo : v^herein lie fays, he 

 knew him to be a man of elegance and 

 polite literature ; that it was from iiini 

 thr.t Pifo learnt his philol<)|)hy, which 

 v\a.^, that pleafure ought to be the end 

 of all our purfuits; that indeed the phi- 

 lofopher did at iirll divide and diltinguilh 

 the fenfe in which that maxim was to be 

 undcrllood, but the young Roman per- 

 verted every thing to make it favour his 

 inclinations and plcafnres, and the Greelt 

 was too polite and well-bred to refiR too 

 obltinately a fenator of Rome. He thci» 

 tells us, Philodemus was highly acconi- 

 plilhed 



