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preceptor of Lucias Pifo the conful. We ’earn from 
Afconius Pedianus, that it is Philodemus the Epicu- 
rean, of whom Cicero fpeaks with that admirable, 
mixture of praiie, and inventive, and excufe, in his 
oration againft Pifo ; wherein he fays, that he knew 
him to he a man of elegance and polite literature : 
That it was from him that Pifo learn’d his phiiofo- 
phy ; which was, that pleafure ought to- be the end 
of all our purfuits : That indeed the philofopher 
did at fir ft divide, and diftinguifh the fenfe, in which 
that maxim was to be underftood; but the young 
Roman perverted every thing to make it favour his 
inclinations and pleasures ; and the Greek was too 
po’ite and well bred to refill too obftinately a fenator 
of Rome. He then tells us Philodemus was highly 
accomplifhed in philofophy, as well as polite litera- 
ture, which other Epicureans were apt to negleCt 
That he wrote verfe°, which were fo fweet, fo ele- 
gant, and fo charming, that nothingcould exceed them: 
That he was betrayed into a too ha-fly friendship with 
Pifo,. from which he could not difengage himfelf 
without the imputation of inconflancy, and that, 
roga'u^ mvitutus , coactus , it a mult a ad ijlumdeiflo 
Jcripfit , ut crimes libidines , omnia jiupra , omnia cce- 
narum convivi or unique genera , adult eria denique ejus , 
delicatijjimis verfilms exprefiit. 
I h ve met with fome epigrams of Philodemus yet 
extant, fome of which are, in my opinion, molt fa- 
cetious and elegant. We might have had many 
more, had not Planudes, as 'the fcholia inform us, 
rejected fuch out of his collection, as he thought too 
loofe and voluptuous. Horace feems to have had 
y fome. 
