^4 . '^T/?d Ml St d ft Y Chap i. 



with his Difciples, and doubtlefs implanted 

 arid made him Gardens there iikewife. 



I (hall pafe by feveral Gircumftances of his 

 Life, and alfo his Writings, as they relate 

 not to our prefent Purpofe, and fhall oiily 

 obferve, that he was not that Perfon, which 

 by the Name now common among us, one 

 would take him to be ^ but, on the contrary, 

 as Seneca obferves, a (bber, virtuous Perfon, 

 and a great Lx)ver of Learning ^ only, in Op- 

 pofition to the Stoicks (who were his profefs'd 

 Enemies) he allow'd the chearful Ufe and 

 Enjoyment of the Benefits of Life, whilft 

 the Others injoin'd a great deal of Abftinence 

 and Severity. 



He beftowed his Garden on Hermachus^ 

 and died in the 2d Year of the 127th Olym- 

 piad ^ he is reported by Laertius to have went 

 into a warm Bath, and drinking off a Glafe 

 of Wine, exhorted his Friends to be mmdful 

 of his Doftrine 5 upon which that Author 

 has this Epigram : 



Farewell, and hear my Doifrine in your MMs\. 

 Said dying Epicurus to his Friends. 

 Into a warm Bath goings Wine he quafty 

 And then from Pluto took a colder Draft. 



Stanly's Lives of the Philofophers.- 



Pliny^ in his Catalogue of the Grecian 



Writers, from whom he extraded part of 



Rege' Piin. his Works, enumerates no lefs than Twenty, 



lib. I. and amongft them one Pifijlratus a noble 



AthenioTf^' 



