and then, having bidden his friends remember his doctrines, breathed his last.

Here is something of my own about him 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.

His last will was as follows: On this wise I give and bequeath all my property to Amynomachus, son of Philocrates of Bate and Timocrates, son of Demetrius of Potamus, to each severally according to the items of the deed of gift laid up in the Metroön,