(k) That he heard ill.] M. Crassus the Triumvir, one of the three Keepers of the Liberty of Rome, with Pompey and Julius Caesar; he certainly lay under a flagrant infamy of unsatiable Covetousness, both at home, and with the Per∣sians. On this account Tully inveighs against him in his last Paradox. He was also brought into some suspicion in the matter of Catiline, but there compurg'd by him; and per∣haps he doth the like here, only in point of disaffection to the Government, in his time establish'd.
(l) Our Epicureans.] A colour or facetious Argument, taken to expose that Sect.
(m) Why do we make much difficulty?] A Stoical case to favour impatience in Pain.
(n) Theodorus.] Call'd Atheist, was sent Embassador by Ptolomy to Lysimachus King of Thrace, where speaking reso∣lutely, he was threat'ned by him, who was of a cholerick Temper; when he bid him come no more into his presence; he reply'd, he would not, unless Ptolomy sent him again. Some of the Fathers count him falsly traduc'd of Atheism,