Among the numerous scholars of Epicurus [1071] the best known are Metrodorus [1072] and Polyænus, [1073] both of whom died before their master; Hermarchus, [1074] upon whom the presidency of the School devolved after the death of Epicurus; [1075] and Colotes, [1076] against whom Plutarch, four hundred years later, wrote a treatise. Many others are also known, at least by name. [1077] The garden which Epicurus in his will left to the School [1078] continued after his death to be the external rallying-point for his followers. Hermarchus was succeeded by Polystratus, [1079] with whom Hippoclides is also mentioned [1080] as joint-president. Hermarchus and Hippoclides were succeeded by Dionysius, and Dionysius again by Basilides. [1081] Protarchus of Bargylium, [1082] and his pupil, Demetrius the Laconian, [1083] appear to belong to the second century before Christ; but the time in which these philosophers flourished cannot be established with certainty; and the same remark applies to several others whose names are on record. [1084] [C. Epicureans of the Roman period.] Before the middle of the second century B.C. Epicureanism is said to have obtained a footing in Rome. [1085] It is certain that it existed there not long afterwards. C. Amafinius is mentioned as the first who paved the way for the spread of Epicurean doctrines by discussing them in Latin; [1086] and it is stated that these doctrines soon found many supporters, attracted partly by their merits, but more often by the simplicity and the ease with which they could be understood. [1087] Towards the close of the second century Apollodorus, one of the most voluminous writers on philosophy, taught at Athens. [1088] His pupil, Zeno of Sidon, the most important among the Epicureans of that age, laboured for a long time successfully, both orally and in writing. [1089] About the same time Phædrus is heard of in Rome and Athens, [1090] and at a little later period Philodemus, [1091] and Syro or Sciro in Rome, [1092] and Patro, [1093] the successor of Phædrus, in Athens. The number of Epicureans at Rome, known to us chiefly from Cicero’s writings, [1094] is not small. No one of them has obtained a higher repute than T. Lucretius Carus. [1095] His poem, carefully reproducing the Epicurean notions on natural science, is one of the most valuable sources for the knowledge of their system. Contemporary with Lucretius was the celebrated physician Asclepiades of Bithynia, [1096] who resided at Rome, but to judge by the views on nature attributed to him, he was no genuine Epicurean, although connected with the Epicurean School. [1097]