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one even to have read it the god will punish me forcit, hen the have sirst reven ged theia iselves o Homer, and the rest of the poets; ut the have notye meis thei reseniment against the φ rst os philosophers, hora assaid that, an is thesi mage of Od. Phad a great deal more to say, but must leave is for the Ak of this Po
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I it so indeed, Toxaris do ou Scythians sacrifice to Pylades and
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barians are than ou. Nei ther at Argos o Mycenae is there an monumentio Pylades o Orestes, hilst, have reflexa temple, oster sacrifice, and pay ver honou to them both, as hien is and companions. Nor ecause the were stranger did Scythia esteem them est orth of her orice : e neve ask of What country a good man is, nor, i the have done nobi ac-VOL. H. O tions,
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si de them astu riwn But that hicli bove ali excitet our applauserandadmirationis these me Nas that the seeme tot the est friend thateve livex the grea legislators, appoinred, acit ere, by heaven to leachmankinxtio friend should ad in ali ranks and circumstances of life and the refore intit texto the rais and worsiaip of very nobi Scythian What the disso each ther, and what the suffered, Our ancestor ordere toleon praved on a illa o brassi, in the Oresteum, an inade a a that thi; s io uid belli fir aestud of thei child ren. ooner ould ne of them for get the a me of his ather than the acts of Pylades an Orestes On the walis of the temple is patiated by ancient artists, the whol history, as en gravedin the illar here o see Orestes atting illi his frienti, his stipspli on the och himself aken, and Iphigenia preparin in sacrifice hi in i in another partae is represented Deed rom his chains, layin Thoas, and severat ther Scythians thei settinis ait illi Iphigenia and the god dest: the Scythians attemptingo board the hi P, and anging on the rvdder,sonae ounded, and repulsed, thers rightened, and in immin bae tost ore. On the opposite side of the ali is ourtrayed the mutuat affectiorio the two friend. in thei batile illi thes Scythians the pa inter agdrare one of them riving Way the nemi es bo attache the ther, illi out re ardinithose ho seli in himself, as secaret esse of his oen iis, is e could but preserve that of his frie nil, OVering him on very de, and re cet vino the stro hes that e re at med at hi m. That stron attachment thai mutua participatio os anger an assiictions that truth, honour, fideli ty, love, in Laindia ess, hicli the me ex fota acti ther, e regarde asso mething more than human, a proose of a min far superior to the generalit 3 of man kind who, heia the ' in sei fair, and the Oyage is pros persus, resent i hight y f the a re not admitte to a hare in the haps inesse of thei frien is, and et i it Urias bout retire, and leave them a lone,
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exposed to at the anger of the storin. The Scythian est em nothiniso much a true frien d statim there is no any thin Whichiives him more lea re and satisfaction than to parta he with his friendis ever sorro and calamity, no doth he hold any th in more Panae fui an ignominio us than to desert an betra him this e hono ur Pylades and Orestes, ecat se the excelle in that virtuae hicli, most admire for his reason, Ne callthem the Coraci, hic h, iniur langu age, sagini sies, the god of frien diui p. MNESIPPUS. I find, Toxaris, oti Scythians a re nolint famous for the wi fines of your arro Ws, and skill in War, ut for our eloquenoe also. Formerly Iown I id not thin s of ou ut must no confessi ou seem to have prope sense of justice, by the honour Whicli ou pay to Pylades and Orestes: nor di I nore, is friend that ou ere, Ourself, O XCellent ala internyour pictures in the restrum, the batile, and the ound whicli the oblefrien is received for jach other, re inely drawn litile thought that
wayclooked ora asin savage an inhospitable Iie apte, passio nate, quarrelso me, and contentious, stranger to friendsaip even amongst their ea resta in dredan relations; hich, I was incline to belleue, as 'eli rom many therthing that Phave ear concerning them, a frona thei customi devouring their own parent aster death. ΤOXARI S. With regar to ur reat mentis, an veneratio formur parenis, Ustalino at present enter into dispute ithoo ; ut that the Scythians are much
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dreanas, and leave ou like thos mute personages in the drama, ho gapewith immense id mouilis, and a nothing. e, o the theriand bya much as, sali sior of ou in ords, much do e excel)ou iniuractions, at least, illi regard to this subject. Let us then make his agreement We Will permit, on both sides, the friend of forme ages to rema in in eace so there, I hin k, ou ould have theae iter of me, as Our poets bear Witness, ho in mos harmonio his metre, have Ling the prat se of Achilles an Patrocles, Theseus an Piri thous, vitii other of equa reno and et ach of us produce soni seruexample iniur Wn times, I rom Scythia, and o froni Greece; and
whicheve mal bring instances of the most nobi and disinteressed frien diuis',stiuili declared victor in his honou rabie contest. For m OK Pari, atherHould I be conquered in single glit, an have in right and ut is, whieli is the punishment inflicte amongs VS, than e vercome, spec- ali a Scythiani a Greek, in his particular.
The irronus. In allusion to the anne offghting generali made se of by the Scythians vitii bows and armos, in hicli the were remat Labi skil sui.' 'he rex o. J Ivlades and Oreites, a represented by Toxaris in the picture.
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MNESIPPUS. Bear itnes then, O Jupiter Philius, that ha I am ab Out o say, et thero myiis knowlege, or hich I have gathered rom the certain informationo others, is stridi ly true 'hac Nili mallem fabulous, or theatrical addi tion to t. Fit si, there re, I hali relate the friendissilinos minias and Ana thocles, o much celebrate amongst the Ioniaias. his Agathocles, holias no been long ead Was of Samos, no distingUished rom his countru men or birthis fortune, ut by the incerit of his friendi his for Diniaqo Ephesus, the son o Lycion, illi ho m e Nas acqua in ted rom his in sancy. Dinias as immens ely ricli, and a is usual illi suci a come lud dent into great fortunes, Was visited by a Umber i PeOPle, lio came toeat, rin k, andrae meri y ith him; ut lio, at the sanae time, it te merit ed the ille o real frientis Amongst these, Agathocles, though he deli litacd o much in sicli company was admitte Dinias ab in litile more regard o him than to the stat terer Aho hirro unde him, he a at ast evenasiron ted at the re edom hich e ook o reprovectim, by rem indino, hi m
Philius' The friendly. Jupiter a calle ξενος an φιλιος, as the great protedior of friendΑan guests Cleodemus, in Plutarch, calis the table the altar of the god of friendo imand hos pitali ty. 1 Theat, ioni. Alludin to the liberti es generali taken by the ancient di amati inriter 'frepresentin facts in an manne that best sui te thei purpose, Mithout a strict regaris is itatorical truth reedom hici, the supercilious critic o modem times a re alivays exclaim in against Nith a degre os asperi ty, hicli the crime, iis suci ille, by no me ita deserves.
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of the dignit; of his ancestors, and ad visi nihim to e care sui os that state whicli his sat he had acquired by his industry, andaequeathed to him. Forthis reason Dinias no longe invited Agathocles to his east and entertain menis, ut drank With the est of the company, and Quiane him a muchas possibi e . At tengili, his hin fortunate oung man was by the sycophanis about hina dra n into an astri With one Chariclea, the wife of Demonax, man of the fitst quali ty in Ephesus, ho, the made hi in belleve, was vio lently in ove illi hi m. They too care me mould en him letters garland half-Dded, apples biti hiriwn Aeet lips, and other such ohens os love, illi, hici arti ut omen allure ovia men These things, the wellknein, g a great way to ard drari in in the uri ary, speciali suci assen cy the mulic hand thnie, and cassi lyciali in to the nare. This Chariclea was a most agreeable omnia, ut the true lady fileastare, an always ready for any an hos hewed the east inclination to her; hoeve looked at her,ste Nould an siner illi a nod, and there a no ear of Chariclea's refusa LShe had moreover, heyonil any otheriai tot of her time, the artis attract-ing and engagin her admirers of sub duing the indifferent, an fixin theland lover, o increasin his passion by lattery by resent ment, by oyness, by feigning an inclinatio for thers site as, in mori, complete ly killeclin every tricli and device that could seduce and secure admirers. This Chariclea, the stat terer of Dinias, ho acted the unde paris in theplay endea volared by at the mean in thei power o mali him in ovewith ohilst lie, ho h ad at ready ruin ed many a wealthy fami ly, and with pretende passiona ad in vel gled hundreds, hen sit perceived that he hadlaid holdin his ea and nexperieraced ouia man, ould not et hi mescape out of her talons,' ut hel him fast, ill me go the entire post monos him, destro 'ed herself, and involve him in a thous and calamities. hestri sent hi in private letters, and dispalchedrae maid o im inho was to vatch alliis motions to weep, and et him ho deei lyrae inistressi asenamoui ex ith him ill the happy 3 ouili vas thoroughi persuade he was the most beauti ut of men, and the admiration os very ila in Ephesus. At en gili, verco me byae solicitati in f, he niet, and ad frequent inter- course illi her. Fro that time, ne ab naturali suppose, he was easty an totali subdued by a beauti fui and lovet woman who et laneue homi charmi in by her conversation, and who, in the id si oscit, ould
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frequently bur into ears, and latch de ep lis, run ut o me et imwith ardour, and embraces him tenderi at his departure frona her; ho
hear of her intrigue illi hi m. his a more than e could bear notio se he was absolutely intolerable he wepi, an raved e re the sycophanis, calle o the a me of Chariclea, and embraced e statue, hic lilia been ad for in of hi te arbie, an cri ex out in agoni es, thenthre himself doren on the round and was almost disti adtex insteas ofapples an garland s, e sent ter hole sields, and ouses, servanis, sine cloaths, an a much old a me could desii ea in sta ori, in a very litile pace of time, the riches an nobi est hous in ali Ionia inas empti ed, and iis rea-ires enti rely consumed. hen Dinias as lengili sic hed dry, and ο- tali exhausted , he go in other over, a Cretan Johath, of a good fortune
cles, wh ait ad lineis inio via a sit uation he was, and after confessing, no without sta me, his rei folly, related o hina very thing that ad appened his passon, his overi y the ride and insole iace of the woman herreception of the Cretan rival assur in him ster ali that he could not live vithout Chariclea Agathocles thought it was then an uia se a sonable timeto reproachaim for his asst bellavio ur, in reject ini suci a frie nil for syco phanis and flat terers, ut erat immediate ly, sol his paternat est a te a Samos, hic limas ali that he had for reo talenis, and brought them to hi m. Aster the receipt of this, Dinias as again iit tot stela by Chariclea againhe appeared beauti fui tester, letters again a me to hina, and the ma id assent to reproachaim for his tedio us absence, the stat terer Io once more came about hina, in ling that he wasince more sit tot sed pon he appotiate a time o meet her, and came to hera ou se accor lingly, heres hewas o ooner entere than Demona X, the humand of Chariclea, liother
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nia go offas privately sae could, mi stayed illi Agathocles ij morn. in g, deliberat ing on lis it a best o do ora this occasion the magistrates havin intelligences isor the thium Mas no v ieco me Public), came early, sei Zedipon Dinias u lio id nor de ny the ad , and carrie him e re thegovernor of Asia, I ho sent hi in to the em peror a liti te hil aster he was transporte to Gyarus, ne of the Cyclades, bella conssem ned by the m. peror o perpetua banistament. Agathocles a lone, o ali his friends, accompani ed him into Italu attended him to the tribunal, and assisted him in everything mei ther, hen he went into banishment, id his ait hi ut frien deserti im, ut condem ning himself to voluntary exile, rema ined illi imin Gyarus, and when e ecam so Oor as O Want common necessaries,
hi rediimself omne of those ho dive so the ui ple-fim, and with the wages e received supporte Dinias, too care of him during a long ill ness, and even after his death ould no return to his own country, ut stayed in thesis and ascis to guar the rem alias of his departe friend. This is a very recent example, asci belleverit is carce sive years ago since Agathocles die d