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Hegesianax. Of Human Life, four books. Of Just Dealing. Neocles: dedicated to Themista. Symposium. Eurylochus: dedicated to Metrodorus. Of Vision. Of the Angle in the Atom. Of Touch. Of Fate. Theories of the Feelings—against Timocrates. Discovery of the Future. Introduction to Philosophy. Of Images. Of Presentation. Aristobulus. Of Music. Of Justice and the other Virtues. Of Benefits and Gratitude. Polymedes. Timocrates, three books. Metrodorus, five books. Antidorus, two books. Theories about Diseases (and Death)—to Mithras.The full title, Περὶ νόσων καὶ θανάτου, Of Diseases and Death, is preserved in a Herculaneum papyrus, 1012, col. 38, thus correcting our mss. of D. L. Callistolas. Of Kingship. Anaximenes. Correspondence.
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The views expressed in these works I will try to set forth by quoting three of his epistles, in which he has given an epitome of his whole system.
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I will also set down his Sovran Maxims and any other utterance of his that seems worth citing, that you may be in a position to study the philosopher on all sides and know how to judge him.
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The first epistle is addressed to Herodotus and deals with physics; the second to Pythocles and deals with astronomy or meteorology; the third is addressed to Menoeceus and its subject is human life. We must begin with the first after some few preliminary remarksi.e.§§ 29-34, the first of those summaries of doctrine which take up so much of Book X. upon his division of philosophy.
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It is divided into three parts—Canonic, Physics, Ethics.
