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28 DIADUMENUS. And what do we now else, O my best friend, but demonstrate that their sect perverts and destroys all our common conceptions with improbable things and unusual expressions? For none would hinder the solicitude of these wise men towards young persons, if it were free from all passionate affection, from being called hunting or love of instruction; but they ought to call love that which all men and women understand and call by this name, like that which Penelope’s suitors in Homer seem to acknowledge, Who all desired to lie with her;Odyss. I. 366. or as Jupiter in another place says to Juno, For neither Goddess yet nor mortal dame E’er kindled in my heart so great a flame. Il. XIV. 315.

29 DIADUMENUS. Thus casting moral philosophy into these matters, in which all is A mazy whirl, with nothing sound, and all perplexed,Eurip. Andromache, 448. they contemn and deride all about them, as if themselves were the only men who regulated nature and custom as it ought to be, and who at the same time adapted reason to each man’s peculiar state by means of aversions, desires, appetites, pursuits, and impulses. But custom has received no good from their logic, but, like the ear diseased by vain sounds, is filled with difficulty and obscurity,—of which, if you think good, we will elsewhere begin a new discourse. But now we will run through the chief and principal heads of their natural philosophy, which no less confounds the common conceptions than that other concerning ends.