A treatise of morall phylosophie contaynyng the sayinges of the wyse. Gathered and Englyshed by Wyl[lia]m Baldwyn.
Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?

¶Of Xenophon. Cap. xix.

XEnophon the sonne of Grillus was borne an Athens, he was shame∣faste, & exceding bew∣tifull. It is sayde that Socrates met hym in a narrowe laue, and wold not let him passe tyll he had answered him to dyuers questions: and whan he axed hym, where men were made good and bad, at whiche he stayed, and could not tell: Socrates sayed, cum with me, and learne. And so he did, untill suche tyme as he went to Cyrus, whose fauour he obteyned & became in great reputation with him, and wrote all his actes, he had a womā also called Philesia which folowed him: of whome he had two Page  [unnumbered] children. He had much trouble in his lyfe, and was banished, & fled from place to place, till he came to Corinth: where he had an house. And whan ye Atheniences, enten∣ded to succoure the Lacedemoni∣ans, he sent his two sonnes called Diodorus & Grillus to Athens, to fyght for the Lacedemonians: from whiche battayle Diodorus returned, without doing any great feate: but Gryllus fyghtyng man∣fully amonge the horsemen, dyed about Mantinia. And when Xe∣nophon (whiche was doyng sacri∣fice with his crowne on hys head) hearde that his sonne was ded, he put of his crowne, and when he af∣terwardes hearde, that he dyed fyghtyng valiantly, he put it on a∣gayne, not so sory for his death, as ioyous for his valiantyse. He dy∣ed at the citie Corinthum as saieth Page  [unnumbered] Demetrius being very olde: a man both good and valyant, expert in tydyng and huntyng, and greatly skilled in marciall affayres, as ap∣peareth by his workes. He was also religious, & muche inten∣tyue about sacrifice, & was a folower of Socrates. He wrote .xl. bokes in∣tytled euery one by a sondrye name: & Tucidides workes which by negligence were lost, he brought to light. And was him selfe so pleasaūt in his style, that he was called the muse of Athens. There were more of this name, of whom this is the chiefe, whose good sayinges & pre∣ceptes hereafter shalbe touched.