CHAP. I.
His Life.
HEGESIAS, Disciple to Paraebates, was sur∣named 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Death's Oratour, from aa 1.1 book he writ, entituled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, upon occasion of one who had famish'd himself nigh to death, but was called back to life by his friends, in an∣swer to whom, hee in this Book demonstrated that death takes us away from ill things, not from good, and reckon'd up the incommodities of life, and re∣presented the evills thereofb 1.2 with so much Rhetorick, that the sad impression thereof penetrated so far into the breasts of many hearers, that it begot in them a desire of dying voluntarily, and many laid violent hands upon themselves. Whereupon hee was prohibited by Ptolomy the King to discourse any more upon this Subject in the Schools.