Essays and Miscellanies

 Table of Contents

 Philosophical Essays That it is Not Possible to Live Pleasurably According to the Doctrine of Epicurus. PLUTARCH, ZEUXIPPUS, THEON, ARISTODEMUS.

 That a Philosopher Ought Chiefly to Converse with Great Men.

 Abstract of a Discourse Showing that the Stoics Speak Greater Improbabilities than the Poets.

 Common Conceptions Against the Stoics. LAMPRIAS, DIADUMENUS

 Contradictions of the Stoics.

 The Eating of Flesh.

 Tract I.

 Tract II.

 Concerning Fate.

 Against Colotes, the Disciple and Favorite of Epicurus.

 Platonic Questions.

 Question I.

 Question II.

 Question III.

 Question IV.

 Question V.

 Question VI.

 Question VII.

 Question VIII.

 Question IX.

 Question X.

 Literary Essays.

 The Life and Poetry of Homer

 The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. The Seven - Solon, Dias, Thales, Anacharsis, Cleobulus, Pittacus, Chilo. Niloxenus, Eumetis, Alexidemus Periander,

 Diocles to Nicarchus

 How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems.

 Abstract of a Comparison Between Aristophane and Menander

 The Malice of Herodotus.

Question VI.

How Comes it to Pass that in Phaedrus it is Said, that the Nature of a Wing, by which Anything that is Heavy is Carried Upwards, Participates Most of the Body of God? (See "Phaedrus," p. 246 D.)

Is it because the discourse is of love, and love is of beauty inherent in a body? Now beauty, by similitude to things divine, moves and reminds the soul. Or it may be (without too much curiosity) he may be understood in plain meaning, to wit, that the several faculties of the soul being employed about bodies, the power of reasoning and understanding partakes most about divine and heavenly things; which he did not improperly call a wing, it raising the soul from mean and mortal things to things above.