(m) Who allow that Souls abide, after they are gone out of the Body, but not always.] The Stoicks held the Soul to be a hot Breath; that is, a Body compounded of Air and Fire, so consequently subject to Dissolution, but not suddenly upon expiring. The Souls of the loose and debauched, they fancied to abide a time accordingly shorter; but those of the just and resolute, to the next Conflagration of the World.
(n) The Homer of the Philosophers.] Not only because as Homer led and excelled in Poetry, so Plato in Philosophy; but also more, because as the continued Epique Poem of Homer, was that rich Spring, from whence the following Poets drew the partial Arguments of their Poetry; so the Dialogues of Plato, are that well-stored Repertory of Wis∣dom, from whence the succeeding Philosophers have set up their several Sects, with their respective Opinions. So that, what the one furnished in gross, the others deal out by retail.