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jovial good fellows and the best companions. Diogenes the Sinopean was so far altered from the man he was before that he married with Lais the harlot, and was many times so drunk that he would rise and dance about the room as a man out of his senses. ÆsopThe fablemaker. the Phrygian served them for a jester. There was not one StoicNo stoics in Elysium. in company but were still busied in ascending the height of virtue's hill: and of ChrysippusA philosopher, scholar to Zeno, the greatest logician of his time, and chief of the Stoics' sect. we heard that it was not lawful for him by any means to touch upon the island until he have the fourth time purged himself with helleborus. He means not the Platonics, who are called the old Academics, but the new Academics, who would affirm nothing, and held it impossible that anything should be truly known, andThe Academics, they say, were willing enough to come, but that they yet are doubtful and in suspense, and cannot comprehend how there should be any such island; but indeed, I
