Chap. I . of GARDENING, &c. 1 5 



the Hanging- Gardens we have been fpeak- 



ing of. 



But to proceed : " Hence we may con- 

 '' jedure (fays Mr. Stanley, in the Life of 

 " Epicurus) that this was the Place which 

 " (t) Paujanias reports to have been called, 

 " even in his Time, the Gardens o[ Pbilofo^ 

 " phy 3 adding, that there was in it a Statue 

 made by Alcemenes, one of the greateft 

 Curiofities in Athens (as may be gathered 

 from («) Lucian ) and that the Temple of 

 Vem^ did join to it. 



This Garden is often mentioned (fays the 

 fame Author) in the Plural Number bj (a:) 

 Cicero, (y) Juvenal, and Others, and fome- 

 times diminutively Hortulus^ as Virgil 3 and 

 this gave name to his Seft of Philofophers; 

 as well as it fignified a Garden : For Sextus 

 Empiriciis cail'd the Epicureans the Philofo- 

 phers of the Garden^ (as the Stoicks the Phi- 

 lofophers of the Stoa otCloifier-^ ^nd Apollo- 

 dorus being in his Time the Matter of the 

 Garden, was (as Laertiud affirms) cail'd the 

 Garden King. 



Befides this City-Garden he had at Athens^ 

 with Houks belonging to it, and joining 

 upon the City, Epicurus had an Houfe in 

 Melite a Town in the Cecropian Tribe, as 

 Siiidas affirms, inhabited by PhiUus, one of 

 his Anceftors^ thither he fometimes retir'd 



0) Paufanias in Attic. («) Lucian in Jmag. 



ix) Cicero ad Attic. (y) Juveiul. $a:. 4, 



with 



