A breviate of a discourse, showing that the Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets. (2)

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Euripides’s Iolaus of a feeble, superannuated old man, by means of a certain prayer, became on a sudden youthful

and strong for battle; but the Stoics’ wise man was yesterday most detestable and the worst of villains, but today is changed on a sudden into a state of virtue, and is become of a wrinkled, pale fellow, and, as Aeschylus speaks,

Of an old sickly wretch with stitch in’s back,

Distent with rending pains as on a rack,

a gallant, god-like, and beauteous person.

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