. toAthens, and there probably studied underXenocrates, who was then at the head of theAcademy. After a short stay at Athens he wentto Colophon, and subsequently resided at Myti-lene and Lampsacus, in which places he wasengaged for five years in teaching 80S) when he had attained the age of 35, lieagain came to Athens, where he purchased for80minae a garden—the famous KrjTroi ZiriKovpou—in which he established his philosophicalschool. Here he spent the remainder of hislife, surrounded by numerous friends and
. toAthens, and there probably studied underXenocrates, who was then at the head of theAcademy. After a short stay at Athens he wentto Colophon, and subsequently resided at Myti-lene and Lampsacus, in which places he wasengaged for five years in teaching 80S) when he had attained the age of 35, lieagain came to Athens, where he purchased for80minae a garden—the famous KrjTroi ZiriKovpou—in which he established his philosophicalschool. Here he spent the remainder of hislife, surrounded by numerous friends and mode of living was simple, temperate, andcheerful; and the aspersions of comic poetsand of later philosophers, who were opposedto his philosophy and describe him as a per-son devoted to sensual pleasures, unjustly fixupon hint the reproach which belonged to someof his followers at a later time. He took nopart in public affairs. He died in 270, at theage of 72, after a long and painful illness, whichhe endured with truly philosophical patience EPICYDE 319. Bust of Epicurus. and courage.—Epicurus is said to have written300 volumes. Of these the most importantwas on On Nature (Ilepi u<recos), in 37 bis works are lost; but some fragments ofthe work on Nature were found among the rollsat Herculaneum, and were published by Orelli,Lips. 1818. In his philosophical system (seeDiog. Laert. book x.; Lucre-tius, iii. 3, &c.; Cic. de and ii., N. D. i.) Epicurusprided himself in being in-dependent of all his pre-decessors ; but he was inreality indebted both to De-mocritus and the regard for science andphysics was mainly on theground that a true under-standing of them mightfree mankind from the fearof the gods (religio) and ofdeath. He regarded oursenses as the guide to truthin theory and our sensa-tions of pleasure and painas the motives of choice in practical life. Inhis physics he followed Democritus in hisatomic theory, except that he saw that atom
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