when their fears of one another were equall; nor the Leasure to observe any thing but one another.  At length, when Warre had united many of these Graecian lesser Cities, into fewer, and greater; then began Seven Men, of severall parts of Greece, to get the reputation of being Wise; some of them for Morall and Politique Sentences; and others for the learning of the Chaldeans and Egyptians, which was Astronomy, and Geometry.  But we hear not yet of any Schools of Philosophy.

Of The Schools Of Philosophy Amongst The Athenians After the Athenians by the overthrow of the Persian Armies, had gotten the Dominion of the Sea; and thereby, of all the Islands, and Maritime Cities of the Archipelago, as well of Asia as Europe; and were grown wealthy; they that had no employment, neither at home, nor abroad, had little else to employ themselves in, but either (as St. Luke says, Acts 17.21.) “in telling and hearing news,” or in discoursing of Philosophy publiquely to the youth of the City.  Every Master took some place for that purpose.  Plato in certaine publique Walks called Academia, from one Academus:  Aristotle in the Walk of the Temple of Pan, called Lycaeum:  others in the Stoa, or covered Walk, wherein the Merchants Goods were brought to land:  others in other places; where they spent the time of their Leasure, in teaching or in disputing of their Opinions:  and some in any place, where they could get the youth of the City together to hear them talk.  And this was it which Carneades also did at Rome, when he was Ambassadour:  which caused Cato to advise the Senate to dispatch him quickly, for feare of corrupting the manners of the young men that delighted to hear him speak (as they thought) fine things.

From this it was, that the place where any of them taught, and disputed, was called Schola, which in their Tongue signifieth Leasure; and their Disputations, Diatribae, that is to say, Passing of The Time.  Also the Philosophers themselves had the name of their Sects, some of them from these their Schools:  For they that followed Plato’s Doctrine, were called Academiques; The followers of Aristotle, Peripatetiques, from the Walk hee taught in; and those that Zeno taught, Stoiques, from the Stoa:  as if we should denominate men from More-fields, from Pauls-Church, and from the Exchange, because they meet there often, to prate and loyter.

Neverthelesse, men were so much taken with this custome, that in time it spread it selfe over all Europe, and the best part of Afrique; so as there were Schools publiquely erected, and maintained for Lectures, and Disputations, almost in every Common-wealth.