Capitolo 55
Diogenes stamps on on his/her couch with muddy feet, and in order that him
it would devote him to the philosophy it established his/her academy in a
remote place from the city, and not only uninhabited but few healthy
how good. This that he did in order that is probable that the furious assaults of lust are
broken by the fear and continuous presence of illness, and that his
it is probable that followers don't find rescue to like in the things that they has learned."
Such life, likewise the children of the prophets that were the
followers of Eliseus are brought for having conducted. Of these Jeromes also
it tells us, while writing so to the monk Rusticus as if describing the
monks of those ancient days: "The prophets' children, the monks
whose we read in the Old Will, built for them huts from
the waters of Jordan, and abandoning the insane one and the cities,
lived on soup and the grasses of the field" (Epist. iv).
Also so it made my followers they build their huts above of the waters of the
Arduzon, so that they seemed hermits rather than studious. And as
their number ever grew greater, the works that them gladly
borne in the interest of my teaching it seemed to my competitors to reflect
new glory on me, and to throw the new shame on them. Neither it was it
strange that theirs that had done their maximum hurt me, owes
you are distressed to see how all the things worked together for my good person, also
although now I was, in the words of Jerome, away from city and the
place of market, from controversies and the crowded ways of men. And
then, as Quintilian says, envy you look for out also me in my hiding
place. Secretly my competitors complained him and they complained about one to another,
saying: "Now sees, the whole world works later our and he
persecution of him has made rescue of nothing to increase its glory. Us
him striven to extinguish his/her fame, and we have but the new datum
brightness. Here, in the researchers of city has by hand everything of them
you/he/she can have need and anchor, spurning the pleasures of the city, they looks for