250 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book IT. 



be *. But it may be truly faid of them, what Cicero fays of their 

 mafter Epicurus, ' Nihil olet ex Academia, niliil ex Licaeo, nihil ne 

 * e puerilibus quidem difciplinis t«' And they glory, too, as Epicurus 

 did, ' Se magiftrum habuiflfe nullum ;* which, fays Cicero, pleafantly 

 enough, I fhould have believed, il he had not faid fo ; as I would be- 

 lieve the proprietor of an ill built houfe, who boafted that he had em- 

 ployed no architect X* 



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* Efle autem hominem qui nihil in omni mundo melius fe efle putct, decipientis 

 arrogantiae eft. Cicero de Nat, Deor. lib- 2. cap. 6. 



t Ibid. Lib, I. cap. 26' 



f Quod et non praedicanti tamen facile quidem crederem, ficut mali aedificii do* 

 mino jjlorianti, fe archite(5tum non habuiire. Ibid. 



