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seventy-second year of his age, A.C. 428, de-
siring, as the greatest mark of respect which
the inhabitants could offer to his memory,
that the boys might be allowed in future to
play on the anniversary of his death.

Among the disciples of Anaxagoras was
Archelaus. Archelaus, surnamed Physicus, on account of
his having introduced from Ionia the study
and practice of physic. He followed the phi-
losophical system of his master, but engrafted
on it certain doctrines of his own; he taught
" that all actions are, intrinsically, indifferent,
and that they are just or unjust, as law and
custom render them." He was principally
distinguished as having been the preceptor of

Socrates.

Poets.

As far back as the heroic age, or rather
within the fabulous, in the reign of Pandion,
Musseus. fifth king of Athens, lived Mus?eus, justly ce-
lebrated as one, if not the very earliest, of
poetic writers. Virgil in his sixth iEneid
makes the Sibyl thus address to Musseus her
inquiries, in the Elysian Fields, after the Tro-
jan patriarch Anchises: