CHAP. III.
His Apothegmes, Writings.
HE was famous in the Schooles (saitha 1.1 Plutarch) for as much as hearing his Brother in in a wild rage, say, Let me perish, if I be not revenged: he answered, and I, unlesse I perswade you to lay aside your anger, and love me as at first. Ifb 1.2 Hierocles (who relates the same story) for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 writ not as Plutarch 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, ••hat epithite occasion'd the mistake.
c 1.3 He said, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 there is one kinde of sleep, a young pliant Deity, easie to be driven away; the other gray and aged, chiefly frequenting old men: Pertinacious and inexorable, from this God, if he once come, it is hard to get loose; words avail nothing, for he is deafe; nor can you shew him any thing that may move him, for he is blinde.
d 1.4 Being demanded what the Gods are, and wherein they de∣light: Of all things else concerning them, saith he, I am ignorant but of this, I know they hate curious persons.
e 1.5 He wrot (besides other things) six Dialogues (f 1.6 Panaetius doubts whether they were genuine or spurious) their Titles these,
- Lamprias.
- Aeschines.
- Phaenix; or (as Suidas) the Phoenixes.g 1.7
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