17 The UlSTOKY Chap. i. 



cr Years in both thofe Places, is uncertain ^ 

 for Epicurus indeed was an Athenian as (q) 

 Laertius, (r) Suidas^ and infinite other 

 Writers affirm. 



But be the Place of his Nativity as it 

 will, he purchafed a very pleafant Garden 

 in Athens for Fourfcore Min^x., (every Mina 

 ' being with us Three Pounds two Shillings and 

 (ix Pence, which make Two hundred and 

 fifty Pounds, a good Sum, doubtlefs, in thofe 

 Times) where he lived with his Friends 

 and Difciples, and taught Philofophy. And 

 (j) Vliny writes, that he was the firft that 

 brought into Athens the Cuftom of having, 

 under the Name of Hortus^ a Garden, the 

 Delights of Fields and Country Manfions 

 within the City itfelf, or rather Suburbs of 

 the City 5 whereas until his Time 'twas not 

 the Faflion to have thofe kind of Manfions 

 (RuYo) in Towns, and probably they might 

 have no other Gardens but in their Balco- 

 nies, as the Hanging- Gardens were. 



And indeed, all that 1 can colled: from 

 the Life of Cyrus (already mention'd) is, 

 that his Regular and Quincunciai Planta- 

 tions were no other than Walks, Plattoons, 

 and Avenues, or perhaps the Columnial 

 Difpofition of the Pillars that fupported 



(^)Laerthjs, lib. 5. {r) Suidas in voce Epicuri. (j) Jam 

 quidem Hortorum nomine in ipla urbe dclicias, Argas, 

 Viirafqi pofTident •, primus hoc inflicuit Epicurus otii magifter 

 ufque ad eum, moris iHon fucrat in oppidis habicari rura. 

 Plin. Jib. 1 9. cap. 4. 



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