The lives, opinions, and remarkable sayings of the most famous ancient philosophers. The first volume written in Greek, by Diogenes Laertius ; made English by several hands ...

The LIFE of DIODORƲS.

DIodorus was the Son of Amenias, an Iassian, Sur-nam'd also Cronos, of whom Callimachus seems to have been a bitter Enemy, and writes in derision:

Yet Momus is so kind upon the Wall To write his Name in Letters Capital, Cronos the Wise; Oh! never then despise The Man whom Momus has Sur-nam'd the Wise.

He was a Logician, and the first who is reported to have found out the Involv'd and Horned Enthymemes. While he So∣journ'd with Ptolomy Soter, Stilpo put se∣veral Logical Questions to him, which

when he was not able readily to resolve, the King laught at him, and call'd him Cronos in derision. Thereupon he retir'd from the Banquet, and after he had writ∣ten a whole Treatise upon the Question propounded to him, he dy'd for meer Grief: Which occasion'd this Epigram of ours.

Poor Diodorus Cronus! which of All The Daemons was it, ow'd thee so much Gall, So to besot thy Brains, thou cou'dst not speak, And then with silly Grief thy heart to break? Alas! thou couldst not Stilpo's knot unty, 'Twas knit too fast, and that's the reason why? 'Twas that took P and K from thy Name, So Kronos, Onos, or an Ass became.

In Euclid's School were also bred the famous Ichthyas, the Son of Metallus, Clino∣machus the Thurian, who wrote a Treatise of Logical Axioms and Predicaments. And Stilpo, a most renown'd Philosopher, whose Life we are next to write.