ny money for a picture in which should be presented to the life this
fine story of one lying prostrate at the knees and embracing the legs of
another, who mutually again adores him and makes his devout prayers to
him. Nevertheless this devout service, how well soever it was ordered
and composed by Colotes, received not the condign fruit he expected; for
he was not declared wise; but it was only said to him: Go they ways, and
walk immortal; and understand that we also are in like manner immortal.

These men, knowing well in their consciences that they have used
such foolish speeches, have had such motions, and such passions, dare
nevertheless call others odious. And Colotes, having shown us these fine
first-fruits and wise positions touching the natural senses,--that
we eat meat, and not hay or forage; and that when rivers are deep and
great, we pass them in boats, but when shallow and easily fordable, on
foot,--cries out, "You use vain and arrogant speeches, O Socrates; you
say one thing to those who come to discourse with you, and practise
another." Now I would fain know what these vain and arrogant speeches
of Socrates were, since he ordinarily said that he knew nothing, that he
was always learning, and that he went inquiring and searching after
the truth. But if, O Colotes, you had happened on such expressions of
Socrates as are those which Epicurus writ to Idomeneus, "Send me then
the first-fruits for the entertainment of our sacred body, for ourself
and for our children: for so it comes upon me to speak;" what more
arrogant and insolent words could you have used? And yet that Socrates
spake otherwise than he lived, you have wonderful proofs in his gests
at Delium, at Potidaea, in his behavior during the time of the Thirty
Tyrants, towards Archelaus, towards the people of Athens, in his
poverty, and in his death. For are not these things beseeming and
answerable to the doctrine of Socrates? They would indeed, good sir,
have been indubitable testimonies to show that he acted otherwise than
he taught, if, having proposed pleasure for the end of life, he had led
such a life as this.

Thus much for the calumnies he has uttered against Socrates. Colotes
besides perceives not that he is himself found guilty of the same
offences in regard to theory and practice which he objects against
Socrates. For this is one of the sentences and propositions of Epicurus,
that none but the wise man ought irrevocably and unchangeably to b