HIPPARCHIA.
HIpparchia was likewise taken with the Discourses of those Cynicks, she was Sister to Metrocles; they were both Maro∣nites. She fell in love with Crates, as well for his discourse as man∣ner of life, from which none of her Suitors by their Wealth, Nobility or Beauty, could divert her, but that she would bestow her self upon Crates, threatning her Parents, if they would not suffer her to marry him, she would kill her self. Hereupon her Pa∣rents went to Crates, desiring him to disswade her from this reso∣lution which he endeavoured but not prevailing went away, and brought all the little furniture of his house and shew'd her, this saith he, is your husband, that the furniture of your house, consider upon it, for you cannot be mine unlesse you follow the same course of life. She immediately took him, and went up and down with him, and in publick, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and went along with him to Feasts.
At a Feast of Lysimachus she met Theodorus the Atheist, with whom she argued thus; If that, which if Theodorus do be not un∣justly done, neither is it unjustly done if Hipparchia do the same; But Theodorus if he strike himself doth not unjustly; therefore Hipparchia doth not unjustly if she strike Theodorus; Theodorus an∣swer'd nothing, onely pluck'd her by the Coat, which she wore not like a woman, but after the manner of the Cynicks, whereat Hipparchia was nothing moved, whereupon he said,
Her Webbe and Loome She left at home.
I did saith she, Theodorus, and I think have not erred in choosing to bestow that time which I should have spent in weaving on Phi∣losophy.
Much more saith Laertius is ascribed to her.