1. MOSCHIO. And you, Zeuxippus, diverted Glaucus the physician from
entering into a philosophical discourse with you yesterday.
ZEUXIPPUS. I did not hinder him in the least, friend Moschio, it was he
that would not discourse in philosophy. But I feared and avoided giving
so contentious a man any opportunity of discourse; for though in physic
the man has (as Homer[116] expresses it) an excellency before most of
his profession, yet in philosophy he is not altogether so candid, but
indeed so rude in all his disputations, that he is hardly to be borne
with, flying (as it were) at us open mouthed. So that it is neither an
easy nor indeed a just thing, that we should bear those confusions in
terms he makes, when we are disputing about a wholesome diet. Besides,
he maintains that the bounds of philosophy and medicine are as distinct
as those of the Mysians and Phrygians. And taking hold of some of those
things we were discoursing of, perhaps not with all exactness, yet not
without some profit, he made scurrilous reflections on them.
MOSCHIO. But I am ready, Zeuxippus, to hear those and the other things
you shall discourse of, with a great deal of pleasure.
ZEUXIPPUS. You have naturally a philosophical genius, Moschio, and
are troubled to see a philosopher have no kindness for the study of
medicine. You are uneasy that he should think it concerns him more to
study geometry, logic, and music, than to be desirous to understand