and actions; he describes morall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in his discourses and writings:
in his ac••ions he was singular; as to his conduct, a most excellen•• Gene∣rall.
Alexander had not be••n great, i•• Xenophon had not said, even
the perfunctory actions of valtant persons ought to be recorded.
He was the first that committed the disputes of Socrates his
Master to writing, and that with much sidelity, not inserting
excursions of his own, as Plato did, whom for that reason, as
••gellius observes, he argueth of falsehood; that there was a
great enmity betwixt these two is affirmed by the same Au∣thor;
who, as a proof thereof alledgeth, that neither of them,
names the other in any of their writings: only observes,
that Xenophon mentions Plato once in his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, over∣seen
by Agellius. This enmity is further acknowledged by
Athenaeus and Laertius, confirmed by the Epistle of Xeno••hon
to Aeschines, wherein he condemnes Plato, that not being satis∣fied
with the Doctrine of Socra••es, he went to the Pythagore∣ans
in Italy, and to the Aegyptian Priests; arguments of a mind
not constant to Socrates. That he was at difference with Ari∣stippus
also, argued from his writings.
Laertius hath two Epigrams concerning him, the first upon
his going with Cyrus into upper Asia.
Great Xenophon at once made two ascents,
To Asia in person, and to Heaven by fame:
His stile and action (lasting Monuments)
Lay to Soc••atic-wisdome equall claime.
The other upon his banishment.
Thee the Cecropians, noble Xenophon,
Banish'd the••r land, 'cause Cyrus ••hou didst aid;
But strangers prov'd far kinder then thy own:
What Athens ow'd thee, was by Corinth paid
Laerti••s reckons seven Xenophons, this the first, the second
and Athenian, brother to Nicostratus, Author of the Theses; besides
many other things, he writ the lives of Pelo••idas and Epaminon∣das;
the third, a Physician of Coos; the fourth writer of the
History of Hannibal: the fifth, writer of fabulous Monsters:
the sixt, of Paros a statuary: the seventh, an old Comick Poet:
Suidas reckons three more; one of Antioch, the second of Ephe∣sus,
the third of Cyprus: Historians, or rather writers of Ro∣mances;
that of the first called Babylonica, of the second Ephesi∣ica
in ten books; of the third Cypriaca: the story of Cynaras,
Myrrha, and Adonis.