1(5 Tk His t o r y Chap, i, 



pofe of his own Bones 5 he gave particular 

 Orders therein for repairing the Walks, and 

 for a G)ntinuation of Po?npylus^ whom we 

 may fuppofe to be his Gard ner, for whom 

 and Hippias he had before made a good 

 Provifion^ and at laft, the Manumiffiort atid 

 Enfranchifement of the reft of his Slaves 

 or Under-Officers, after a 1 mie then limit- 

 ed, provided they behav'd themfelves Well. 



Laertiiis fays he lived to be Eighty^ 

 five Years of Age. (^) As he lay on his 

 Death-bed, he blam'd Nature for giving 

 Harts and Crows fo long Life, that could 

 do no good thereby 5 and to Men, who do 

 moft good, fo fhort5 whereas, if Man had 

 been allowed longer Time, his Life might 

 have been adorn'd with the Perfedion of 

 Arts and Learning. But to return to the 

 Hiftory of Gard'ning. 



This appearing to be the State of Gar^ 

 d'ning amongft the Grecians^ I (hall finiflt 

 this part of my Hiftory with that memo^ 

 rable Account given of Abdolonymus^ as we 

 have it from Quintus Curtius. 



He is reprefented (by that eminent Hifto- 

 rian and Rhetorician) as a Perfon, tho' of 

 a Royal Oft-fpring, yet by fome fort of 

 Chance, and by a rigid kind of (b) Ho- 

 nefty, very Poor ^ and therefore no doubt 

 fubjed to thofe violent Concuflions and 



(d) Cicero Tufculum, lib. 4. {h) Caiifa ci paupertads, 

 ficut pkriquv, Hcncftas erat, &c* (^wint. Jib. 4. 



Per- 



