CHAP. I.
His Master.
THE first Master of Socrates was* 1.1 Anaxagoras, whereby a∣mongst other circumstances it is demonstrable, that the accompt of Laertius is corrupt, Anaxagoras not dying in the 78. but 88. Olympiad.
Aristoneus saith, that as soon as Anaxagoras left the City, he ap∣plyed himself to* 1.2 Archelaus, which according to Porphyrius was in the 17. year of his age.* 1.3 Of him he was much belov'd, and travell'd with him to Samos, to Pytho, and to the Istmus.
He was Scholar likewise to Damon, whom Plato calls a most pleasing teacher of Musick, and all other things that he would teach himself, to young men. Damon was Scholar to Agathocles, Master to Pericles, Clinias and others; intimate with Prodicus. He was banish'd by the unjust* 1.4 Ostracism of the Athenians for his excellence in Musick.
He heard also (* 1.5 as he acknowledgeth) Prodicus the Sophist a Cian, whom Eusebius rankes in the 86. Olympiad, contempo∣rary with Gorgias, Hippias, and Hippocrates the Physician.
To these adde Diotyma and Aspasia, women excellently learn∣ed, the first suppos'd to have been inspir'd with a propheticall spirit. By her hee affirmeth that he was instructed concerning love, by corporeall Beauty to find out that of the soul; of the Angelicall mind; of God. See Plato's Phaedrus, and that long dis∣course in his Symposium upon this subject, which Socrates con∣fesseth to be owing to her.
Aspasia was a famous Milesian woman, not onely excellent her self in Rhetorick, but brought many Scholers to great per∣fection in it, of whom were Pericles the Athenian, and (* 1.6 as himself acknowledgeth) Socrates.
* 1.7 Of Euenus he learn'd Poetry, of Ichomachas, Husbandry, of * 1.8 Theodorus Geometry.
* 1.9 Aristagoras a Melian, is named likewise as his Master.
Last in his Catalogue is Connus,* 1.10 nobilissimus fidicen, as