Axiochus

being devoid of all contagious trouble. For being loosed and delivered out of the darksome dungeons of this body, thou shalt pass to that place where is no lack nor complaint, but all things full of rest, and devoid of evil. Moreover there is calm and quiet living without all knowledge of unrest, peaceable and still occupied in beholding the course and frame of Nature, and studying Philosophy, not to please the idle ignorant and common sort, but with upright and undeceivable truth.

O Socrates with this thy gladsome speech thou hast now brought me into a clean contrary mind, for so far am I now from dread of death, that I am even set on fire and burn with desire thereof. And that I may stay myself in the steps of them which are counted workmasters of speech, I will say thus much more excellently: Now I begin to behold those high matters, and do overlook that eternal and heavenly course of things, having now raised up myself out of my weakness, and being as it were renewed and refreshed of my former malady.