Vitae philosophorum

The first deals with the same subjects, except that the poem is a monologue. It begins as follows[*](Fr. 1 D.):

Ye sophists, ye inquisitives, come ! follow !

He died at the age of nearly ninety, so we learn from Antigonus and from Sotion in his eleventh book. I have heard that he had only one eye; indeed he used to call himself a Cyclops. There was another Timon, the misanthrope.[*](Diels regards the passage from καὶ ἔπη,§ 110, down to Τίμων ὁ μισάνθρωπος,§ 112, as an insertion, disturbing the symmetry of the materials derived from Antigonus of Carystus.)

Now this philosopher, according to Antigonus, was very fond of gardens and preferred to mind his own affairs. At all events there is a story that Hieronymus the Peripatetic said of him, Just as with the Scythians those who are in flight shoot as well as those who pursue, so, among philosophers, some catch their disciples by pursuing them, some by fleeing from them, as for instance Timon.