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Updated: June 8, 2025
There you are again, cheating me with your irony; you take me for a blockhead, who will believe that an intelligent person like Hermotimus, at the age of forty, would accept the word of laymen about philosophy and philosophers, and make his own selection on the strength of what they said. Her. But you see, Lycinus, I did not depend on their judgement entirely, but on my own too.
Consider what hath been said; and the Lord give you understanding in all things. Farewell. 1 Hermotimus of Lucian. During one of these wanderings his wife thought him dead, and his body was burnt. Whether the poor soul, thus suddenly ejected, obtained another habitation is not narrated. 2 'Of their relations, related or belonging to themselves. Ed.
The Neoplatonists were no wiser, and Greek legend tells a well-known story of a married mystic whose suspended animation began at last to bore his wife. "Dear Hermotimus" that was his name, if we have not forgotten it "is quite the most absent of men," his spouse would say, when her husband's soul left his body and took its walks abroad.
'There is but one way to Corinth, as of old; but which that way may be, oh master of Hermotimus, we know no more than he did of old; and still we find, of all philosophies, that the Stoic route is most to be recommended. 'To despise all things, to make use of all things, in all things to follow pleasure only: that is not the manner of the new, if it were the secret of the older Hedonism.
The next step will be the application; my questioner will say, Now Lycinus, let us suppose an analogue, in a person acquainted only with the Stoic doctrine, like your friend Hermotimus; he has never travelled in Plato's country, or to Epicurus, or any other land; now, if he were to state that there was no such beauty or truth in those many countries as there is in the Porch and its teaching, would you not be justified in considering it bold of him to give you his opinion about them all, whereas he knew only one, having never set foot outside the bounds of Ethiopia?
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