lived with Leontion the courtesan ; that he put forward as his own the doctrines of Democritus about atoms and of Aristippus about pleasure ; that he was not a genuine Athenian citizen, a charge brought bv Timocrates and by Herodotus in a book On the Training of Epicurus as a Cadet ; that he basely flattered Mithras, a the minister of Lysimachus, bestowing on him in his letters Apollo's titles of Healer and Lord. Furthermore that he extolled Idomeneus, Herodotus, and Timocrates, who had published his esoteric doctrines, and flattered them for that very reason. Also that in his letters he wrote to Leontion, " O Lord Apollo, my dear little Leontion, with what tumultuous applause we were inspired as Ave read your letter." Then again to Themista, the wife of Leonteus : " I am quite ready, if you do not come to see me, to spin thrice on my own axis and be propelled to any place that you, including Themista, agree upon " ; and to the beautiful Pythocles he writes : " I will sit down and await thy divine advent, my heart's desire." And, as Theodorus says in the fourth book of his work, Against Epicurus, in another letter to Themista he thinks he preaches to her. b It is added that he corresponded with many courtesans, and especially with Leontion, of whom Metrodorus also was enamoured. It is observed too that in his treatise On the Ethical End he writes in these is one of the fifty scandalous letters alluded to in § 3, Froben's gut^ TrepcuVeij', which Bignone and Apelt adopt, may be