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other consequences of the tempest sussice it here o observe, that henthe came ea to Zacynthus, illi thei fail-yard ali torta, and their opes haule out o stop the force of the current, Damon, ho was sic k illi the

sea, and the hi te an ing that way, a Nave a med hi in head long in to the ocean, and which was orse, illi ali his lothesin, o that he could not

do was to thro out sonae pieces of cork ade Mars, and a large hii l adde r. An now, I beseecho ou conside for a moment, hether ou an conceive

MNESIPPUS. You have no occasion the were both saved, and are o philoso

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Overboard the other eaped in afteraim, and that the Mam sonae timedit asiarcand he could se no more, Euthydicus himself telis the rest, and insorin sis that the firγgoti me pieces of ork, hicli hept them pwith dissiculi sor a se hours, and that in the orning the spie the lad-der, hic hahe got pon, and came salal to Zacynthus. Aster these two instances, hicli are nota ones, Iulial now produce athird nolles remarhable. Eudamidas, o Corinth, ho was himself very poor, had Ko ricli friends, Aretaeus, a Corinthian, an Charixenus, a Sicyonian : henae di edine testinwill, whic to any ma perhaps appea ridiculous though to a good man, like ourself, ho knows the meritis hiendmip and is no contendin forthe nobtest example oscit, it cannot possibi appear in his ill was the followin Marti cle, es leave to Aretaeus the care o nouriming and provid inglar m mollier in heril age, and o Charixenus the portioning out of my

time a mollier lio Nas ver old, and a aughter arriageable I Dei ther of these, it en on mouida appen to die, the ther is to per forin the partos the person o dying, as ei as his Kn.' The willieing ope ned in thepresen ce of sonae ho ere acquaint ex ith the overt o Eudamidas, ut not with the sincerit of his friends, the turn exit into ridicule ho happy, said they, aughing, ill aretaeus an Charixenus e and what a nobi elegac Nili the receive, hera the are t pay for Eudamidas, and whil stli ving them selves have a dea dian to inherit their states tolle heirs, not-withstanding, o hom it a bequeat hed a Mon a the heard the contenis of the will resolve to execute it accordindito his desire Charixenus, however, ted himself,ithin sve dayx aster; ut Aretaeus, the est heir, per-haps that ver lived most nobi performed the par of both, fora took

care of the mollier, an no long ago gave the daUgliter a portion, and out offue talenis, hic li,ere at he was orth, gave two to the daughter of his friend, and wo to his own and the were both married the fame do . What thin you, Toxaris, of this Aretaeus; ascit no a nobi instance of

affection, tota suci a regarii to the willis his friend will o allois histote one of the vel

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would himself have acted in the same manne so them, even though theyli ad not mentioned i in their il l. MNESIPPUS. I belleves Q ut proceed Ne now to in laurili instance, Zenothemis os Massilia, the soni Charmoleus. He was hewn to me in Italy, henes, ason a public embasi there tali, and sonae OUng man, and a the informed me, ver rich in the chario by him satra Oman, extremel ugly, and deformed her right side seruia uinan Withered, illi only one ye, in1hori, a perfex fright on expressing m surprige, that a out so beauti- ω mould have suci, woman with him, the an ho hewed them to me, and who was himself a Massilian explaine the Tair o me, hici he was perfecti acqua in ted, illici enothemis, Didae, a the intimate friend of Menecrates, ather to that gly Oman; the were both, indeed, of equalrank and fortune ita appened, Οwever, that, On a certain occasion, Menecrates Nas at once deprived os ali his riches, and trippe of his honoursand dignities by the hundred senators forat vin sentence contrar tolaw; for so e punisti offenders of this kin in Massyli the n happy manwas deepi affecte a bella thus reduce frona Suence to penury, stomhonour an reputation to infam an disgrace; ut haliave in thegreatestineasines was his aughter, o marriageable, eing abolat two and Kenty, homie fore this, richissae sether the was, Obody, evenis the lowerran or condition, hos to marry, o inhappy was e formand appearancea besides that me Nas subjectri falli nisiis, at the increase of the oon. Ache was one da lamenting these missortune to his friendienecrates,said Zenothemis to him, me com forted, ou hali neve want, and ourdaughter hali marr a manis famil equa to her Nn.' Saying this, heloo Menecrates by the hand carried him home ithaim, and gavelim nequat mare of his fortune, hicli a very considerableu ordered a splendidentertainment tot go ready to hicli Menecrates, with the friends,

were invitex intimating that he had procure a humand fortis aughter. When the had supped, and made a libation to the gods, e too a bowl

Perfect fright. Grect μορμολυκειον, terriculamentum. Six bundred. LVenenum datur ei qui causas sexcentis id enim senatu eius nomen est exhibuit See Valer Max. lib. ii cap. 6. . Uabandi. Literati stomahe Gree ο, ιν κακοδαιμνα.

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ullis ine, and holdiniit in his and receive, says e to Menecrates, this cumo friend&i froma son-in-law, sor his da I mean to eduourdaughte Cydimache, at ready I have received the portion, hic is sive and

twent talents. Zenothemis, replied the ather, this must nolle, neve can bear tesse a beautilat 3 outh like thee, edde to a gir so deforme anudi segreeable Zenothemis, however, ledae forti into the ride-chamber, and , after consummation, returne to Menecrates frona that time e has lived illi her, reat he with the greatest tendernes an affection, and asyo see, carries her very here long Withraim; so farris e DomJeingashamed of this malch, that he stem to glor incit, meruing thus his indinserence illi regaresto the externa forna, hether it e beautili or gly, and manifestingis the sanae time his contempti riches an splendor, considering only the happines of his friend whom he di no esteem lese orth of his assectio frona the udgment of the senate against him For his integrit heiath beenae Narded by Fortune, avin since ad a most beauti filio by this gi Woman whom hei ut the ther a carried in to the senate with an olive branch round his head, and lothen in mourning the more to excite thei pit in favour of his grand-father, hen the chi id mi ed, and clappe iis an iste fore the senators, ho, o uch est at the glit,

pardoned Menecrates, and hecis nota restorei to his hono tars by means of this litti advocate Such, accordin to the Massiliata' repor of it, a thebellavi ou o Zenothemis to his frie nil an ex ample, I belleue, hic li ills carcete paralleled by Scythians, ho the say, alKay take care that heirmi stresses hallie hand me For in fifth and las example, must no serget Demetrius of Sunium, vilio travet Ied into Egypt illi Antiphilus theolopectan. The had been brought up together frona child ren, ne applying to the Cynic philosophyonde the famous sophi it o Rhodes, and the ther stud yitig physic. I sohappened, hen they ere there, that Demetrius too a ourney to visit thepyramids, and the statue Memnon the forme of these, he had heard, though

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though immenset hi gh, made no madoW, and the lalter se unde Konder- fuit at the rising of the ex to se an hea these extraordinar things, heloo a voyage of si monilis p the Nile, leavin bellin his frien Antia philus, ho was deterred by the tength of the ourney, and eat of the climate, frona accompany in him thither. During this time it as, that Anti philus et illi ne of thos missortunes hich stem more peculiari to callso the assistance of a good an generous friend his servant, it seems, ne Syrus, ad entere into a confederac With sonae sacrilegi ous villains, hobrohe into the temple of Anubis, an stolera a two goiden Ups, a sceptre, seme silve seat with the dog head n them, and ther hings, ali ofwhicli, the broughtuo, and lod ged illi Syrus. Bein after ards ahenandi ut to thes torture, the confessed the fact, an sent the ossicer to Antiphilus' house, here they found the stole good hi unde the bed. He, and Syrus, ere both aken, bound and sent to prison not one of those whoa ad besere Leptiuini company daringa reli evem assist him, conclud in him o have been guili os sacrilege, and that those ould be implous

an de filed, ho even eat o dran withraim. Hi treo the servanis, after pili aging the hou se of e very thing that re mained, an way. The wretched Antiphilus was ore confined in a tangeon, and realed as the worst os malefactor the goaler himself, ho was a sup ei stilious gypti an thin kin ille id a meritorious service to his God revelaged the injury offereti to him, by oppres- findit his uni appy criminal, ho, is at an time e deni ed the fact, a sint rdee med the more insolent, and was trea ted accor lingly. Hes Oon gre sic kandemacia ted a Nelli might laying on the gro Und, andio able even to stretcho ut his stet 'hicli ere bound tight illi a cord In tiae a 3 - time, in deerisones place in an particular anne could produc lach unda. V Other imagined, με That it a some secret contrivance, probabi an initi ument conceale in theiod of the statue, the chord of whicli, after hein relaxed by the moti night ir, recovered thei tone andelaimici ty by the heat of the in; hicli, illi ali due detereiace to the earned Strabo, is ut an aukward solutioni the riddie. It was more probabi sonae trick of the ancientsi tests, sorthe statue os idemnon as oracular once in even ears Cambyles, in ordei totandis ut the Dystery broke thecitatue in lino, ut it seem to litile ui posse, O th remaining part we area si ured, possessed the sanae power, and gave, for a long time after Valds, mos excellent music. fine applicationis this able, is made by r. Akenside in his Pleas ures of the Imagination, one of the finest poenas iniur langu age.

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he hadini a log oni ne hand, ut at night, chains ere putin ver limb. The stench of the prison the eat rom so many eopte stussed clos toge-Ither, and carce able to bre athe, the nois of the fellers, it the tota wanto res and seep, ere altogether readfui an intolerable, speciali to aman who had neve experie ced suci calamittes Herat tength gave himselfuplo despa ir, and refused to asse any ood O nourishment When Demetrius, litherio a strange to ali this, returned the mc menti heard of it, he ranaoth prison, ut could notaget admittance, forcitieing the late in the even-ino , he goaler, leaVing ther matters to the care of his servanis, ad lockedu the gate, and wa gone to fleep. Tarly ho ever, in the moria in g, after much intrea ty, he was et in He en quire for Antiphilus, ho was orat. tered by his missortunes that he could noti known and ran bout examining at the prisoners, like the friend of the lain ook in for thei dea bo dies haliacorrupted in the fiet os latile. At tength. he callex out severat times to him by name, and Antiphilus knowing the voice, an diut-ttingi side the dime velle hair that ungi ver his face, discovere himself. The melanchol spectacle ad suci, an effect that the both ain te and when, in a litile time aster, the came to thenaseives, Demetrius as Oonas he had eard the whole stor of his missortunes, ad him e of good chear, ou away the ag he had been to the in and wrapped hi in minpar of his own cloah Frona that time e constantly, he neve he could sin time an opportunity, attende on him. He even orked illi themerclianis in the pori, an carrie burthens ver morning, and with themoneyrae goti it for he was wel pald, provide for his friend, and, withat, ribe the goale to bellave ithaindnes and civisit to im In the day-time, he stat with, and com forte him, an a night made himselia bed os leaves usi on the ouisside of the prison gale, hereae alWays sept. In his manne they lived sor sonae time, Demetrius havinifre acces tolli prison, and Antiphilus beariniliis mis fortune more easiily, frona the societ of his friend. It happened sonae litile time aster that a robber die in prison, ascit assupposed by poison in stricter guard was immediatet placed, and no strangeradmitted in to the oal. Demetrius, in the ulmost anxiet on his account, en to the commandin officer, an accused himself of hein con- cerned in the robber of the templea pon hicha was immediatet sentio prison, here e prevalledin the Leeper, by many prayers and suppli

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cations, o place immea to Antiphilus, and o bin him illi the samecha in that he might embrace, assist, and though he was ill himself, ahecare of his sic frien&: thus id the both, illi essiain andineasiness,

suppor them lues unde thei common calami ty. An event a tength ook place, hicli, neXPected ly, ut an nil to thei missortunes one of the

prisoners havingi sonae means o other procured fles by the assistance of his fellow- captives, sawed os the great chain that in ked them together, and et them ali a liberi the then ea sal murthere the se heepers, and made thei escape the seon dispersed, and severat of them ere re-taken. Demetrius an Antiphilus, however, rem aine there, havinis ei Zed Syrus juxas he was geliing is in the orning, hen the overnor of AEgyptheard of it, e dispalched his ossicer in ursui of the fugitives, en d in atthe fame time so the wo friends, hom illi man commendations of their bellavi our, in no goinya a Nith the rest, he et a liberi y. Demetrius,however, o content ii suci, dismission sat he thought it ouldae anasfrontin them to receive thei pardo thus as a favo umor reward he solici ted the ud ge, there re, for a publicariat who grante it alid finding on xamination, that the were innocent, et themino no Nithout his Prais and admiration, specialty o Demetrius, whomae presented illi 'tinent thou sand drachmas, ut of his o n private fortune, tuin a the a me time hal fas much to Antiphilus, o mahe them amen d so the punishment hichthe hadinjusti sustere l. Antiphilus is no living in AEgypt Demetrius gavera a ali his fortune to Antiphilus, and et ire a mons stoli Brach mans in India, saying, e fore his de parture, that he hoped his friend would

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each cut his finger, and drops the lood into a bowl the then dii thepoints of thei Mord in the lood, and both drin together of it, after Whicli noth in cantis bive the ond. Three may be admitted, ut never

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more so he lao has an frien d is in ur opinion, like a common har- lotu no do e thin h. that friendilii P an ver eiurna bicli is divi ted intoso many channet S.

three thousand three hundred oot a they a me nexpectedi Upon S, Newere Mon routed, and putato stight many of ur soldier iserea illed, and many aken prisoners, ali in deed, who could not malle thei escape, bysis imming ove to the other de of the river, here hal ou arm an parto the carri ages e re post et for our genera is, Iano no why, Ead thought

These0ind. J The Scythian's ath, though a serious matter olim, has omething, it mustbe confessed, ather comica in t and I facian who neve misses an opportunit of this ind, has accordingi endeavoured to throw it into ridicule.

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Amigoces, hein amongst the est alien prisoner, and bound in chains, calle loudi on his friendorem indin him of the solem bond, and theblood bowl: Danda mi hear his cries, an immediatet leape in to ther iver, and sta am to ard the enem y the Sauromatians observing, evelled thei arrores at him : henae crie ovi, iris loliis, is an one repeais, heis neve flain, a the concludeae comes o redeem a captive he was ac-

no bear the thought os ei oy in his sight, hilst Dandam is as de prived ofit, ut ut out his Nn yes and the no sit together, are maintainei atthe public expence, and held in theaighest esteem an veneratio by very Scythian. Can ou, Mnesippus, produce any thin equa to this p no no is ou ere o bring ten more, esides 3 ou other sive, and without Mearing to the