DIOGENES, 
cients, Diogenes was a philofopher “4 : ae genius, 
not unacquainted with learning, an eply verfed in the 
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fuverior to the viciffitudes of fortune, patient of fufferi 
‘and incapable of fear. Contented with a little, he defpifed 
the luxuries of jae age. eam | defirous of correQting and 
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e that a per o has Been extolled by 
molt eminent pilofopher for his “fobriety and 
virtue, and reprefented as one endowed with divine wifdom, 
chronology ; e 
£ Atheneue, we ought to recolle&, thaz 
this writer has amaffed a variety of ac to the diferedit of 
‘philofophy. From the charge of philofophical pride, how- 
ever, the moft sales advocates of Diogenes cannot acquit 
him: hence, he w ed to treat other philofophere, and 
even magiltrates and princes, with contempt; and 
r ed vice, wherever he found it, pee bitternefs, and 
even a“ {eurrility. True wifdom oneal this con- 
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fecncies “ e time and manner of his a ath are not fatif- 
faGtorily ane It is moft probable that he died at 
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mere decay, in the goth year of his age, 
if year of the 114th olympiad, B.C.'324. He was buried 
brazen ftatues to his m 
The philofophy of ay es ste was practical, con- 
fits of the following heads :— Virtue of mird, as well as 
ftrength of body, is to be sequited chiefly by exercife and 
habit. Nothing can be accomplifhed w 
f life.?? 
The Pllowing maxims or adgcls a Diogenes, 
JeGted from a variety of ot 
s, may be gr atifying to 
the reader trample nde foot i pride of Pia 
to,” fai logenes, treading upon his robe. ‘* Yes,” 
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, and turning bin ie academy, 
exclaimed, * S-e atate man.’ D one who 
afked him at what time he saan to aac. ie bid “TE you 
are a rich man, when you will : if you are poo when yo 
can,’ Flow happy,” faid one, * is Calli ee in living 
} “*No,”? faid Diogenes, * he is not 
appy 3; for he muft dine end fup when Alexander pleafes.’? 
Plato, difcourfing concerning ideas, {poke of the abftratt 
idea of a table and a cup. Diogenes faid, “I fee the 
table and the cup, but not ‘lie idea of the table and the 
cup.” Plato replied, * Ok wonder, for you have eyes but 
no pai as ig an 
eand dine wi is him 
afked oars eoneee ae 1e Ww 
zen ae the world.” Too e 
one will bie you when you me, any more 
than they would believe me if I were to {peak well of you.” 
Hearing one of his friends lamenting that he fhouid not die 
in his own country, he faid, “* Be not uneafy, from every 
place there is a paflage to the regions below.” Would 
you be revenged upon your enemy,” faid Diogenes, ‘‘ be 
irtuous, that may have ree: to fay againit . 
Laertius, 1 
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as been recovered f 
2NES, furnamed ‘lie Baby! onian, from this eae 
place, Seleucia, near Babylon, flourithed in the fec 
tury, BC. was the difciple of Chryfippus, ana i ie 
ceflor of Zeno of Tarfus, where he eran the principles of 
his feet with unwearied diligence, and a 
8. s faid to have lived to the age of 
88 years, and philofoph'zcd to thelaft. Tat he was highly 
eftee by his contemporaries is evident from his being ap=. 
oe in conjun&tion with Carn adea, the head of the 
academics, and Cricolaus, the chief i 
to the se to Rome. 
conformed to his principles, we are told, that when he was 
once difcourfing againtt anger, an infolent young man, with 
e hope of expofing i to the ridicule of his audience, 
ae upon him, and otherwife contumelioufly treated him, 
upon which the pilfopher obferved with mecknefs, <* I am 
tul whether I ought to be fo.’? 
fo named from the fuppofed 
oe cr pleea in Cilicia, was a Gree 
share. flourifh 
Others, however, have thought it more probable 
that he lived under Severus a his fucceffors, and that his 
book of the ** Lives,”’ &c. was written about the year 270, 
in which cpinion Dr. Lardser ceca. Asan aay the 
principal werk of Diogenes is entitled ‘The Lives, Opi- 
nions, and Apo — of ane ed Philofophers,” in ten 
books, which has been regar ome as a very valu- 
able repofitory of mate rials, ie ie hifto ory of phi lofophy ; 
ae the character ate of it by Brucker is, that the author 
“ bas colle&ed from the ancients with little j nt, 
patched nie contradictory accounts, relied upon doubte 
ful authorities, admitted as fais, many tales which were pro- 
duced in the [chools of the fophitts, ‘and has been inatten- 
tive to methodical arrangement.” The work appears, upon 
> the whoie, to have seen the pro roan of a credulous and 
k of epigrams, to 
ttle i wn, but he is 
fuppcfed to have been inc ied to the Epicurean philofophy. 
Hs Life of Epimenides contains a paflage which ferves to 
iliuftrate the infcription on the altar at Seen 7° THE 
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tions of Menage. Brucker’ 8 Hift. Philos. by Enfi 
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