CHAP. II.
Of his Masters.
ZEno thus changing the course of his life, applyed himselfe to Crates,a 1.1 being apt to Philosophy, but more modest then suited with the Cynicall Sect. Which Crates to remedy, gave him a pot full of pottage to carry through the Ceramick, and per∣ceiving him to hide it, as ashamed, with his Coat, he struck the pot with his stick and broke it. Zeno running away, all wet, what, said he, are you running away little Phoenician, no body hurt you? Hee made a litle hollow cover of a pot, in which he carried the mo∣ney of his Master Crates, that it might be in readinesse when hee went to buy meat. Thus hee lived a while with Crates, during which time he writ his Book of the Common-wealth, whence some jeasting, said, it was written under the Dog's tail.
At last deserting, Crates he apply'd himself tob 1.2 Stilpo the Me∣garick Philosopher. Apollonius Tyrius saith, that taking hold of his Cloak to pluck him away from Stilpo, he said, O Crates, the han∣dles by which the Philosophers are to be taken hold of, are their ears; Lead me by those your way, or else though you constrain my body to be with you, my mind will be with Stilpo. With Stilpo he remained ten years.
From Stilpo he went to Xenocrates, being so well satisfied with the instruction of these two Masters, that he said, he made a very good voyage when he was shipwrack'd, though others apply it to his living with Crates.
c 1.3 He afterwards apply'd himself to Diodorus Cronus, as Hippo∣••otus avers, under whom he studied Dial••ctick, to which Science he was so much addicted, thatd 1.4 when a certain Philosopher of that Sect had informed him of seven species of Dialectick, in that sallacy which is called the Mower, he asked him what he was to give him for his reward, the Philosopher demanded a hundred pieces of Silver, Zeno (so much was he affected to Learning) gave him two hundred.
e 1.5 Lastly, notwithstanding, that he had made a great progresse