The works of Lucian

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Some time Gree Professor in the Universit os Cambridge.

Tantum obtinet in dicendo gratiar, tantum in inveniendo talicitatis, tantum in iocando leporis, in mordendo aceti sic titillat allusionibus, sic seria nugis, nugas seriis miscet, sic ridens vera dicit, vera dicendo ridet, sic hominum mores, affectus, studia, qtissi penicillo depingit; neque legenda, sed plane spectanda oculis exponit, ut nulla comaedia, nulla satyra cum hujus dialogis On-krri debeat, seu voluptatem spectes, seu spectes utilitatem. ERAsΜUs.

MDCCLXXX.

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THE TRANSLATOR.

ALEXANDER:

Though this is no the mos humorous or ity, it is perhapsine of the mos entertrining Pieces of LUCI AN containing an eradi and probabist true Accountis a mos extraordinar Charadier ho Hured in his Time, and of hos asonis i et Frnu is and Impsures he was an Oe-witness. Me cannot rea Lit,ithout onderino atii e Credulit os Manliud in the dis of Paganism nor, at the fame time , ithout refecting, Gatis glaring Frauasis, and as impudent Impositions have been proditised by the Charch of Rome even in the enligbtened Era Chrisianitu. YOU thought perhaps, m dea Celsus, theoas a very ligh and ea syone, hen ou commande me to rite the histor; of Alexander of ' Abonotichos his various schemes, triclis, and enterpri Zes Passure 3 ou,to relate them ali illi accurac an precision is as dissicultis to describe theactions of the greata son o Philip One Was as rem arkable forat sanavery, a the ther for his virtues. Is neverthel ess, yO Wili pardon m errors, an suppi m deficiencies, Ι ill en dea uou to leans this Augaean stabiecino that propos Meeping the whole, ut ni to bring yo a fere baskeis,

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, ALEXANDER; ox,

whicli three thousandixen ere se any years in making. Lblum, in deed, both for 3 ou and mysel on his occasion sor ou, holiave thus equested me to emplo m pen about so execrabie a fellow, and sor myself, ho have thus engaged to rite the histor os a man who dothno des re the regard and attentio of the learned an polite, ut is ather fitto e givei up to the populace, an torn to iecesi apes and Oxes. Lhowever Pam lanae for the undertaking there is an example to excuseni : Arrian, the disciple o Epictetus, a mani theirst character in Rome,

and who sperat his hole life in literar puritis, ill plea in m de lance by

the similitude hic hae bore t me, for e condescende to rite the lis of Tilliborus the robber We, o ou paris, sta allaea recordis a much more cruei and barbaro us One, ho id not rob in ood an mountains, ut plundered, hole cities; id not commit his depredation sint on Ida, Minyas, and the deseris of Asia, ut almost throughout the whole Roman empire. I, ill ri describe to ou his externa appea rance, and dra a good althenes of him a I can, though I am no great pa inter His bod was large an beauti fui to ook on, and to a the truth, ad ometh in nobi and majestic incit his hin clear, his hin no too rough; illi his o vn hair erenti xex me false locks, o et imitated that eis could discern the differen cebetween them, his yes sol right and sparklin a to appea more than human, his voice to the last egre Meet and clear; pora the whole, there asnoth in dilagreeabiei defective in him. Such was his externa forna 'ut for his min&anda eari, O Jupiter, Hercules, and e the sons O Jove, averters of very evit, sen us athera mongltour enem ies than curse ias illi suci a companion In understanding, in subtiliy, and mariness, he was X celle by one and ad withalis most extraordinary ea lines in earn ing, an inquisitive disposition a genius cap ableo every thing, an a tenacious memory ali these e postessed in Mostwonderit degree, and made se of them to the worst o purposes for Withali these instrui ncnts of good, he was ne of the most ic ked of men, evenbeyond the ' Cercopes, Eurybatus, Phrynondas, Aristodemus, o Sostra-- Elihorus. J No such Work of Arrian ' is no extant, nor has ossius mentione it in thecatalogue of his ortis.1 Ceroopes, is . Ait amous ascat os antiqui ty. Some of them re mentioned by Eschines. Se his ortation agaiust C teli phon.

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tus. He rote lac to his rother in-la; Rutilianus, and modesti compare himself to Pythagoras Pythagoras, heaven state id me was a is eman, and ut of the divini ty butiadae lived hen Alexander id hewould have been aio toraim. no mean sine a by the Graces bythis to reflee o Pythagoras, o to compare them together illi regari tothei actions. ut is emere to ut together very thing hicli caluinnylia suggeste against Pythagoras, and which Pgive no credit o it ould not amounta half the cras and iniquit Rhich, as to e found in Alexander Imagine to oui sel a dispositioni min perpetuali misting, adempos falsehood, lying, ei jury, and very villari active, bold, despis nidan-ger, indefatigable so plausibi and persuasi ve, as even to force belle taponyou, alWays Puttingon the appea rance of good, and seem in the direct contrar to Uliat he reatly as; no man, after the rst intervie with him, could hel looking onctim as ne of the est and worthi est, and withal asone of the momplain an simple men, ithout arti dis ui se There asmoreover, a Lindis magnificenc in him, hicli prevente hin frona everattending to any thi nilo or litile, ut alWays urge him to the pursuit of

When a boy, eing extremel hand me, by the stubble ne might see ha the corna ad been, a Was very debauched, and used to et himselfout for hire Among the est of his lovers was an old juggler, one of thos vilio praetis magic aris an incantations love potions philters, and charnasto findi id len realares, subdue enenates, an gelistates This fello find- inihi in an ingenious ad an sit for an kin os mischie , instructed him, an tos him into his service He Was himselfi profestion a physici an also, and like the φ Wife of Thoon the AEgypti an, could, of good an evi mix' the rugs prepare; et ali hich Alexander Eas sterward hei and successor He was lihewiseweli aequa in ted illia Apollonius Tyaneus, hose hole ory he was nostrange to. Io se What an excellent schooltur hero asarought up in.

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Alexander beingio groK uinto maia' estate, his beaut gone cri and his master dead found himself ut indifferenti provide for, and began to considerohat extraordinar way of liferae mouid turn to and meet in by

lowed her frona Bithynia into Macedonia: for me came frona ' Pella, hic hin the time of the Lings of Macedona ad been a famous ity, ut could noruboast of ew, and thos very oor inhabitant s. Here the met illi omeserpent of a prodigious si Ze, ut qui te tam an gentie so that omen fed, and child ren septi them the wouldae rod pon ithout turning, and sucked milh like in fanis. The have manv of them, i seems, in this place; heiace probabi the able of Olympias took iis rise, an sonae suci serpent corresponde Mith her hen he was illi child of Alexander the Great.)One of the most beauti l of these they purcha sed sor a Diu obolici and this, a Thucydides says, was the ource of the batile. For hen these two infamous enterpri Zing villains, hora Uc at nothing, go together, thens ondiscovered that his life is entiret governed by the t o passions ope andiear, and that he who akes a proper se of them On Ver occason, ill

qui chly grow riclici and with regard o both these, the knowlege of suturi ty, the perceived was of at thing the most necessary, and the most desii rabie. This it was that ad ea Delphos, Delus, Claros, and the Branchidae, sola mous and o opulent me continuali socking to them, urged by thosesam tyranis hic hes jus no mentioned, ope and ear, t en quire into

sion is no a common one.

' Ellis. J A districtis Macedonia, amous serieing the birth-place of Philip who enlarged

it, and after vard of Alexander the Great. Delabo, So. Places ali amous for the oracles stablistae in them. I in readeraliave an curiosit on this su edt, I reser them to Plutarch, an Fontenelle' Hist. des