gods. But in the ensuing year they
recalled the hasty decree, restored the liberty of the schools, and
were convinced by the experience of ages, that the moral character
of philosophers is not affected by the diversity of their theological
speculations. [150]

[Footnote 143: The life of Isocrates extends from Olymp. lxxxvi. 1. to
cx. 3, (ante Christ. 436--438.) See Dionys. Halicarn. tom. ii. p. 149,
150, edit. Hudson. Plutarch (sive anonymus) in Vit. X. Oratorum, p.
1538--1543, edit. H. Steph. Phot. cod. cclix. p. 1453.]

[Footnote 144: The schools of Athens are copiously though concisely
represented in the Fortuna Attica of Meursius, (c. viii. p. 59--73, in
tom. i. Opp.) For the state and arts of the city, see the first book
of Pausanias, and a small tract of Dicaearchus, in the second volume
of Hudson's Geographers, who wrote about Olymp. cxvii. (Dodwell's
Dissertia sect. 4.)]

[Footnote 145: Diogen Laert. de Vit. Philosoph. l. v. segm. 37, p. 289.]

[Footnote 146: See the Testament of Epicurus in Diogen. Laert. l. x.
segm. 16--20, p. 611, 612. A single epistle (ad Familiares, xiii. l.)
displays the injustice of the Areopagus, the fidelity of the Epicureans,
the dexterous politeness of Cicero, and the mixture of contempt and
esteem with which the Roman senators considered the philosophy and
philosophers of Greece.]

[Footnote 147: Damascius, in Vit. Isidor. apud Photium, cod. ccxlii. p.
1054.]

[Footnote 148: See Lucian (in Eunuch. tom. ii. p. 350--359, edit.
Reitz,) Philostratus (in Vit. Sophist. l. ii. c. 2,) and Dion Cassius,
or Xiphilin, (lxxi. p. 1195,) with their editors Du Soul, Olearius, and
Reimar, and, above all, Salmasius, (ad Hist. August. p. 72.) A judicious
philosopher (Smith's Wealth of Nations, vol. ii. p. 340--374) prefers
the free contributions of the students to a fixed stipend for the
professor.]

[Footnote 149: Brucker, Hist. Crit. Philosoph. tom. ii. p. 310, &c.]

[Footnote 150: The birth of Epicurus is fixed to the year 342 before
Christ, (Bayle,) Olympiad cix. 3; and he opened his school at Athens,
Olmp. cxviii. 3, 306 years before the same aera. This intolerant law
(Athenaeus, l. xiii. p. 610. Diogen. Laertius, l. v. s. 38. p. 290.
Julius Pollux, ix. 5) was enacted in the same or the succeeding year,
(Sigonius, Opp. tom. v. p. 62. Menagius ad Diogen. Laert. p. 204.
Corsini, Fasti Attici, tom. iv. p. 67, 68.) Theophrastus chief of
the Peripatetics, and disciple of Aristotle, was invol