Chap. I . of Q ARD^NING, &^c. 1 1 



*•' Xenophon^ a Perfon of high Spirit and 



*' Honour, naturally a King, tho' fatally 



^' prevented by the harmlefs Chance ofPoft- 



" geniture ; not only a Lord of Qirdens, but 



*' a manual Planter thereof, difpofing his 



" Trees, like his Armies, in regular Ordinati- 



" on : So that while Old Laertes has found ?ii^H Laer^ 



*' Name in Homer for pruning of Hedges/^^' 



" and clearing away Thorns and Briars 5 



'^ while King Attains lives in his poifonou^ 



" Plantations of Aconite and Henbane, &c. 



" while many of the Antients do poorly 



" live in the fingle Names of Vegetables; 



'^ all Stories agree that Cyrus was the firft 



" fplendid and regular Platiter." Thus far 



this Authour, whofe elaborate and ingenious 



Pen has not a little added to the Noble- 



nefs of our Subjefl:. 



The Gardens of Epicurus were, without 

 doubt, the moft famous of any in the Gre- 

 fian Empire. He was born, as may be col- 

 leded out of (0) Laertius^ in the 109th 

 Olympiad (and fo not much before Arijiotle^ 

 and confequently Alexander^ Arijiotk's Pu- 

 pil:) The Place of his Birth is fomcwhat 

 difputed 3 Conjiantinus Porphyrogeneta^ and 

 Others, that he was born at Samos 5 and (p ) 

 Strabo^ that he was born at Lampfacene. 

 Whether thefe different Opinions might pro- 

 ceed from his living fome part of his young- 



Co) Diogenes Laertius Vitis X)o§. & Phiiofophorum, lib. lo. 

 (f) Straboj lib. 10. 



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