ustoming one's self to bear fatigues, by
which men attain to great wealth and honor. And as for Parmenides, he
beautified and adorned his native country with most excellent laws which
he there established, so that even to this day the officers every year,
when they enter first on the exercise of their charges, are obliged
to swear that they will observe the laws and ordinances of Parmenides.
Empedocles brought to justice some of the principal of his city, and
caused them to be condemned for their insolent behavior and embezzling
of the public treasure, and also delivered his country from sterility
and the plague--to which calamities it was before subject--by immuring
and stopping up the holes of certain mountains, whence there issued an
hot south wind, which overspread all the plain country and blasted it.
And Socrates, after he was condemned, when his friends offered him, if
he pleased, an opportunity of making his escape, absolutely refused
to make use of it, that he might maintain the authority of the laws,
choosing rather to die unjustly than to save himself by disobeying the
laws of his country. Melissus, being captain general of his country,
vanquished the Athenians in a battle at sea. Plato left in his writings
excellent discourses concerning the laws, government, and policy of a
commonweal; and yet he imprinted much better in the hearts and minds of
his disciples and familiars, which caused Sicily to be freed by Dion,
and Thrace to be set at liberty by Pytho and Heraclides, who slew Cotys.
Chabrias also and Phocion, those two great generals of the Athenians,
came out of the Academy.

As for Epicurus, he indeed sent certain persons into Asia to chide
Timocrates, and caused him to be removed out of the king's palace,
because he had offended his brother Metrodorus; and this is written
in their own books. But Plato sent of his disciples and friends,
Aristonymus to the Arcadians, to set in order their commonweal, Phormio
to the Eleans, and Menedemus to the Pyrrhaeans. Eudoxus gave laws to
the Cnidians, and Aristotle to the Stagirites, who were both of them the
intimates of Plato. And Alexander the Great demanded of Xenocrates
rules and precepts for reigning well. And he who was sent to the same
Alexander by the Grecians dwelling in Asia, and who most of all
inflamed and stimulated him to embrace and undertake the war against
the barbarian king of Persia, was Delius the Ephesian, one of Plato's
familiars. Zeno, the di