Note 146
From Chapter 40 of the Decline & Fall

See the Testament of Epicurus in Diogen. Laert. l. x. segm. 16 - 20, p. 611, 612. A single epistle (ad Familiares, xiii. l.) displays the injustice of the Areopagus, the fidelity of the Epicureans, the dexterous politeness of Cicero, and the mixture of contempt and esteem with which the Roman senators considered the philosophy and philosophers of Greece.

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