The life of Asclepiades, the celebrated founder of the Asclepiadic sect in phisic ... / From the Italian.

  • Cocchi, Antonio, 1695-1758.
Date:
1762
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Credit: The life of Asclepiades, the celebrated founder of the Asclepiadic sect in phisic ... / From the Italian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there fiorifhed among the Greeks, that high character for which Pericles extolls the Athe¬ nians, as may be feem in Thucydides for be¬ ing at once magnanimous, voluptuous, of a fine taffe in the arts and fciences, found reafon- ers and philofophers, and withal robuftr, capable of fatigue, difcreet and courageous warriors. It does not, however, appear, that the middle- rank, affigned as the moil probable one to Af- clepiades, implied, in the lead:, his not having been originally provided with aneafy fortune, or good circumflances; fince he could, in his earlier years, apply himfelf to his ftudies, travel thro® Greece, make fome flay in Athens, to accomplifh himfelf, and add to his own native flock of abillity, the knowledge of the various fiftems of philofophy ; and, finally, take a journey to Rome, and fettle there •, all which could not be done, without a pecuniary competency. That, after his arrival at Rome, on his being acknowledged the greateft: phifician of his time, as it is univerfally allowed that he was acknow¬ ledged in that charafter, he might make a great fortune is highly probable. Experience demon- flrates, that nothing is eafier than to acquire iru¬ men fe wealth, for one who is efteemed an able phifician, in a city where a ftudied luxury is f Hi ft. II. §38. and foil. cultivated, V *