Kitap 10
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He was born, according to Apollodorus in his Chronology, in the third year of the 109th Olympiad, in the archonship of Sosigenes,341 b.c. on the seventh day of the month Gamelion,The eighth month of the Attic civil year. Thus he would be born about February, 341 b.c. Plato died 347 b.c. in the seventh year after the death of Plato.
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When he was thirty-two he founded a school of philosophy, first in Mitylene and Lampsacus, and then five years later removed to Athens, where he died in the second year of the 127th Olympiad,271-270 b.c. in the archonship of Pytharatus, at the age of seventy-two; and Hermarchus the son of Agemortus, a Mitylenaean, took over the School. Epicurus died of renal calculus after an illness which lasted a fortnight: so Hermarchus tells us in his letters. Hermippus relates that he entered a bronze bath of lukewarm water and asked for unmixed wine, which he swallowed,
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and then, having bidden his friends remember his doctrines, breathed his last.
1.16
Here is something of my own about himAnth. Pal. vii. 106.: Farewell, my friends; the truths I taught hold fast: Thus Epicurus spake, and breathed his last. He sat in a warm bath and neat wine quaff’d, And straightway found chill death in that same draught. Such was the life of the sage and such his end.
