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 also leave out the pleasures which arise from amatory indulgences; and if I also omit those which arise from music, and those, too, which are derived from the contemplation of beauty and the gratification of the eyesight." And, proceeding a little further, he says, "All that is beautiful is naturally to be honoured; and so is virtue, and everything of that sort, if it assists in producing or causing pleasure. But if it does not contribute to that end, then it may be disregarded.

12. And before Epicurus, Sophocles, the tragic poet, in his Antigone, had uttered these sentiments respecting pleasure—

For when a man contemns and ceases thus To seek for pleasure, I do not esteem That such an one doth live; I only deem him A breathing corpse:—he may, indeed, perhaps Have store of wealth within his joyless house; He may keep up a kingly pomp and state; But if these things be not with joy attended, They are mere smoke and shadow, and contribute, No, not one jot, to make life enviable.

And Philetærus says, in his Huntress,—

For what, I pray you, should a mortal do, But seek for all appliances and means To make his life from day to day pass happily? This should be all our object and our aim, Reflecting on the chance of human life. And never let us think about to-morrow, Whether it will arrive at all or not. It is a foolish trouble to lay up Money which may become stale and useless.

And the same poet says, in his Œnopion,—

But every man who lives but sparingly, Having sufficient means, I call and think Of all men the most truly miserable. For when you're dead, you cannot then eat cels; No wedding feasts are cook'd in Pluto's realms.

13. And Apollodorus the Carystian, in his Stirrer-up of Law-suits, says—

O men, whoe'er you are, why do you now Scorn pleasant living, and turn all your thoughts To do each other mischief in fierce war? In God's name, tell me, does some odious fate, Rude and unlettered, destitute of all That can be knowledge call'd, or education, Ignorant of what is bad and what is good, Guide all your destiny?—a fate which settles