What are Epicurean Delights?

EPlCURUS (-i), a celebrated Greek philosopher, was born B.C. 342, in the Island of Samoos, and took up his permanent residence at Atbens, in 306. Here he purchased the garden, afterwards so noted, in which he establlshed the philosophical school; called after him the Epicurean. He died in 270, at the age of 72, after a long and painful ilIness, which he endured with' truly philosophical patience and courage. Epis Is the great leader of that philosophical school wbich teaches that the summum bonum, or highest 'food, is happiness. The happiness that he taught his followers to seek after was not sensual enjoyment, but peace as the result of the cultivationl of all the virtues.According to the teaching of his school, virtue should be practised because it leads to happiness; whereas the Stoics teach that virtue should be cultivated for her own sake.,The pupils of Epieurus were very numerous, and were excessively devoted to him. His system has been most violently attacked, partly because after the days of Epicurus men who professed to be his followers gave themselves over to mere sensual enjoyment, partly because it has been but imperfectly understood, and partly because it was really founded onl an erroneous principle, in making virtue dependent upon consequent happiness.