Hippocrates cured many sick people, then got sick himself and died. The Chaldeans and astrologers predicted when others would die, but fate surprised them too. Alexander, Pompeius, and Julius Caesar destroyed many cities and killed thousands of soldiers. But in the end, they all had to give up their own lives. Heraclitus wrote many books about how the world would end in fire. Then he died with his body full of water and covered in filth. Lice killed Democritus. And Socrates was killed by another kind of pest — wicked, godless men.
Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died. The Chaldeans and Astrologians having foretold the deaths of divers, were afterwards themselves surprised by the fates. Alexander and Pompeius, and Caius Cæsar, having destroyed so many towns, and cut off in the field so many thousands both of horse and foot, yet they themselves at last were fain to part with their own lives. Heraclitus having written so many natural tracts concerning the last and general conflagration of the world, died afterwards all filled with water within, and all bedaubed with dirt and dung without. Lice killed Democritus; and Socrates, another sort of vermin, wicked ungodly men.