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IUPITER. D yo doubi then, hether there are reWard an punissiment in another state, here ver man 'clis and actions illi en quire into CYNISCUS. Lam tol that Minos the Cretan is appotiate judges belοN; o caninform me about him for the se heri your son. JUPITER. What would you know concerni nihi pCYNISCUS.whomae inflict the greatest punissiments n. IUPITER. Oniad men thieves, and murtherers. CYNISCUS. And whom doeche sen to keep company illi the heroes ρIUPITER. The good and pious, hoclive accordin to the dictates of honou and
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lege, it is Fate that obliges him to it; and i Minos acts justly, e must punish the Parcae, instea of Sisyphus an Tantalus ; for hateve both id,
wasini in obedience to thei command s.
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See his Histoire des oracles.' Ab Gher ore, Vo. Mercury findi nihi master Iupiter in a melancholy ood, and re. citin strapsi a tragedy like a true ourtier talis in illi his humour, and ad tresses hi in tu heroi cs. The wotas in the original re probabi quote smin ome traged of Euripides not
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And thou Prometheus, hat a trai of ills Didsi thou procure me MINERVA. Tel us, for thou speak'st To thy est friends, th felloK-deities. IUPITER.: What hast thou done forme, thou nois thunderi MINERVA.
ing, Uc. J Minerva no tot bellinxhand in complaisance, appealso Iupiter in hexameters. Her speech is a littie Lindit cento, taken from various paris of Homer, an puttogether ad libitum.' T re' nos, Ne PFroin the Orestes of Euripides, with a litile variation. Wba has, Vo. This is ei ther rom sonte id poet, hole Nork are uot come do totis, or an imitationi Luci an himself.
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have found om ne Danae, Semele, O Europa, that O are fora os, and are considering hether you halli a buli, a satyr, or a mo eri go id, Bowing through the tiles, in to the osona of our mist rest fghs, groans,lears, and that pallidiue caia e sympto in os nothingi ut love. IUPITER. Ridiculous to thin Lamineas abola such tristes. IUNO. What is there et se that can mahe Jupiter unliappylIUPITER. Juno the assair of the god are in imminent anger Ne stand a the
be totali neglected, and despi sed .
IUNO. Has the arth the brought forti more gianis have the Titans burs theirchains, subdued theiraeepers, and ahen uinarius against us p IUPITER. Bemo alarna'd for alnis sese below. IUNO. What then an happen esides, o ver terribies is his is no the cause of ourari ef, hat is it that an mahe yo thus puti ' Polus and Aristodemus, inste ad of Jupiter λIUPITER. Ι ill tello oin there as esterday a dispute, I domo kno ho it beagan, etween Timocles, the Stoic, and Danais, the Epicurean, concerning providen ce, e re a large and respectable audience. Damis afferted whichhur me ost), that there Nere o gods, o ook ver an direct humanassair ; hiis the good Timocles, o the theriand undertook o defendour cause A number of people croudin in pon them, the di not finissithe discourse, ut parte With a resolution to meet again, and determine thepoliat ome ther time an no it rema in in do ubi ho ill gain the victory. Io se What anger e re in and that ali depend onine an
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Pam qui te os a different opinion heaven I hin k, ought notet be disia turbed nor ould I haverit knoAn that you stirre in the assair: very thingstouldie carrie o privately, is ou ould have Timocles comemis conqueror, and Damisi laughexad, and ive 'theloint. MERCURY.It jam neverae in secret Jupiter, ras the dispute is to e in public, and the will say, o play the tyrant, in no communicatin to them Gliat
IUPITER. Give notice, then, and et them ali attend. MERCURY.Vo are certaini right es, O es: Way to colincit, ali e go is, immediate ly on assairs of the ulmost importance.
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Τrue: ut his is heiu sines of rhapsodi sis, and heroi writers Iam nopoet I statimni spoi the business, b exceed in the meas ure of the verse, o patchiniit up hen it talis hori, and the will augh a me foris 3 i norance have de Apollo hi in sel serve so for sonae of his oracles: though the obscurit of the prophec hides a great many fatalis, and thelieare is let dona a leisure to examine the metre.
IUPITER. Yo ma give trus ut o Homer cali the councillas heia done I su p. pose yo can recollecto t. MERCURY.Not exaetiy, Pana Daid Q, ill try, oKever, hates an do, maste allo male and se male deities, Attend with me, the senate of the lites,
Each fair-hair'd Dryad of the hady ood, Each agure sister of the silver stood
Y first an last, and ye ho have a name, An ye ho have not, ye, hos altar claim The mohing victim hi ther ali repair. IUPITER. Very well, in deed Mercury, o a re a mos excellent crier: sor Dethe are croudin in ali eady do ou se at them accordin to thei rank, both, illi regard to the ' materiais, and the workmans hi in firs, the go id, nex the silver, then the ivory the the bras and stoneri and do ou hear, letabe ork of Phidias, Alcamenes Myron, Euphranor, and the like excellent arti sis have the preferen ce a to the Vulgar, that a re oori exe
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do, fine of the olde ones that ei glis severat talenis, moui diei ut indifferently orked, of the commones sori, an no ans Nering in the therre spe dis musici placet imae fore theiragen ones of Myro, an Polycletes, o the one o Phidias an Alcamenes o do ou thin k, that those hoste Nilio greatest perfectio in therari, mouidi preferre pIUPITER. I shouldae seu ut, must put the goiden ne sirst. MERCURY.Lunder stand youa ou ould have me place them, o according to their merit, ut thei riches Come there fore, o goiden ones, in to the sir stsea is But now, ehold Jupiter, hebes places are illed, illi barbari anguγου see ha the Greeks are, beauti sui, O a sine appearance, and wrought in a masteri style, ut the rare most os them in stone or brasi the ostvaluabie of ivory, with a Ver litile old just to colour an adoria them, whils the inside is ood, that furnis hes an habitatio sor a colon os mice. But Bendis and Anubis, and with them Attis an Mithresare ali solid old, and of infinite value. NEPTUNE. And where is the justice, Mercuru in placing that dog- face AEgypti anhelare mes do)ou know ho nam pMERCURY.I do : ut o must remember my good Earth-Jaher, that Lysippus has made cum nothinibu pcor brast for the Corinthians, at that time, hadiso golyamong them; hicli, ou know, is the riches of ali metat s. Yo must submit there fore, to e set aside, o must o take it ili, Phewho has suci a large mi de nose, is preferredie re you.
Yes and si h calis Apollo the rich and wealthy, and yet yo ma see
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him tting amongst the ploughmen, his crown ta ken ost lis head by th leves, and the string of his lyre crached by a se of russians; e contented there-
fore, that ou are nolint the head of the assembly. COLOSSUS. Who mali dare o conten for preceden ce illi me, the immenses Colos sus, illi his radiant in the Rhodians might have made t enly goiden sto ssor the money that I cost them by the ruleis proportion, heres ore, I liouldbe placed above them ali besides that, ou hould conside the ari and ex quisite orkman ip employed about me. MERCURY. What is ole done in his assair, Jupiter λ it is a dissiculi poliat o deter mine for, illi respecta the materiais, hecis nothing ut brassi; and et ora themther hand, si e considerio many talent he cost maliing, he must
Here is nother dissiculi for)o two gods both os brasi, and the semeworkmanship both roughti Lysippus both qua in birili, the fons ofJupiter Bacchus and Hercules; hicli mus have the precedenc y the areboth, o ste, contendiniso it. IUPITER. Mercury, we are tosing time here, instea os indita our usin esse; e
Colosus. J his semotis statue, hicli is called one fili seven onder of the worid, as ahuge and immense representation o Apollo, o the uia, orsa ipped by the Rhodians. The ancient historians, horare very api tot on these occasions tellis that it was event cubiis hi gh or, accordin to Festus, a hundred an sive seet long allis brasi, the work of one Chares, a disciple of the famous statuar Lysippus it stet ere placed on two immenset hi gh ocks orpedessais, at the entrance of the portis Rhodes, an a suci a dii lance rom acti ther, that,ips in fuli sui passed in belween them Plin inform us, that bout sty- si x ear after iis erection, it a laidiat, an rem ained in that condition ill the time o Vespasian who et itumagain. When the Saracens hecam matters of Rhodes, the mund it again thrown do ii, and sold i sor an immense sum to a Jew, who oo it to pieces, an carried of the bras it Wasmadet inmine hundred cameis. The thumb, it stems, was a much as a man could ellipaninit his two arnas, and every finger a a large a a common statue.
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1hould have go totur speeches besere this: et them eat them selves promiscuous ly, just here the pleas for the present; by and by we ili calla counci about this, and setile the orde os precedency. MERCURY.But har i liat a tot and tumuit there is amongst them l the are cryingout as usual, here is the nectar an ambrosia, here are the hecatombs and the sacrifices IUPITER. Mercury, command silence, that the ma hear hat e re et about, an no th in os such tristes. MERCURY.But hal hali I do, Jupiteri the do no ali understan Greeh, and Iam not so stille in langu ages a to e ablerio tal intelligibi to Scythians, Persitans, Thracians, and auis; I belleve I ad belle make a signis it hin hand. IUPITER.
ti occasion. Gisiadi ain. J See Homer: the passage has been quoted besere.