abstention from affairs, so that Timon in his Pytho a and in his Silk b says ' : O Pyrrho, O aged Pyrrho, whence and how Found'st thou escape from servitude to sophists, Their dreams and vanities ; how didst thou loose The bonds of trickery and specious craft ? Nor reck'st thou to inquire such things as these, What breezes circle Hellas, to what end, And from what quarter each may chance to blow. And again in the Conceits d : This, Pyrrho, this my heart is fain to know, Whence peace of mind to thee doth freely flow, Why among men thou like a god dost show ? Athens honoured him with her citizenship, says Diocles, for having slain the Thracian Cotys. He lived in fraternal piety with his sister, a midwife, so says Eratosthenes in his essay On Wealth and Poverty, now and then even taking things for sale to market, poultry perchance or pigs, and he would dust the things in the house, quite indifferent as to what he did. They say he showed his indifference by washing a porker. Once he got enraged in his sister's cause (her name was Philista), and he told the man who blamed him that it was not over a weak woman that one should display indifference. When a cur rushed at him and terrified him, he answered his critic that it was not easy entirely to strip oneself of human weakness ; but one should strive with all one's might against facts, by deeds if possible, and if not, in word. They say that, when septic salves and surgical and caustic remedies were applied to a wound he had sustained, he did not so much as frown. Timon