72.) A judicious philosopher (Smith's Wealth of Nations, vol.ii.p.

340--374) prefers the free contributions of the students to a fixed stipend for the professor.] [Footnote 149: Brucker, Hist.Crit.Philosoph.tom.ii.

p.

310, &c.] [Footnote 150: The birth of Epicurus is fixed to the year 342 before Christ, (Bayle,) Olympiad cix.

3; and he opened his school at Athens, Olmp.cxviii.3, 306 years before the same aera.