the greatest philosopher of his age, was born at Gargettium in Attica, about 349 B.C., in the 109th Olympiad. He settled at Athens in a fine garden he had bought; where he lived with his friends in great tranquillity; and educated a great number of disciples. They lived all in common with their master. The respect which his followers paid to his memory is admirable: his school was never divided, but his doctrine was followed as an oracle. His birthday was still kept in Pliny's time; the month he was born in was observed as a continual festival; and they placed his picture everywhere. He wrote a great many books, and valued himself upon making no quotations. He raised the atomic system to a great reputation, though he was not the inventor of it, but had only made some change in that of Democritus. As to his doctrine concerning the supreme good or happiness, it was very liable to be misrepresented, and some ill effects proceeded from thence, which discredited his sect. He was charged with perverting the worship of the gods, and inciting men to debauchery; but he did not forget himself on this occasion; he published his opinions to the whole world; he wrote some books of devotion; recommended the veneration of the gods, sobriety, and chastity; and it is certain that he lived in an exemplary manner, and conformably to the rules of philosophical wisdom and frugality. Timocrates, a defender of his sect, spoke very scandalously of him. Gaffendus has given us all he could collect from the ancients concerning the person and doctrine of this philosopher, who died of a suppression of urine, aged 72.