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peet, that the mis fortune a be ors than it reatly s. JUPITER.

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IUPITER. Celestia states, immortal odo give ear. MERCURY.No no; ou have give Us nough of that at readyn Oilia dieiter aheone o Demosthenes Philippi cs, patch it up and mahe a litile alteratio uliere and there many great orator praetis this no K-a-days. IUPITER. Wel ad visessi it is a most compendi ou kin os rhetoric, and ver convenient for such as do notano ho toaetin or hich way to turn them selves Come, I illi egi n. Far superior to the ricli est i eas ures, O et morta gods, ames satisfied, o Nould este em the perfecit knowlege of that busine se hich hath here calledis together, illi the greates pleas ure, there- fore 3 ou ill l oub not, isten to ha I mali ad vance concerniniit thepresent cris doth, as ita ere, illi a lovd voice, calicior ali ur immediate

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But I illiso herem Demosthenes fatis me, heXplain t you, onwhat occasion I calle this counci l. esterday, ou know, Mnestheus thepito osse redis p a sacrifice to us ora account of his hil be in preserved, whicli ad narro rit escapedo recla ne arci Caphareus, an a many aswere invited suppe together in the Pliaeus: after the libations , as oum a re member, o dropped is onera One I for it a no late, entinio the ity, and walhed about the Ceramicus, reflect in gin the sordid di Dposition o Mnesitheus, ho, after invit in si x te e god to his east, illedoni o ne cock, and that an id ne and half ead of the pip hicli asallae gave us, esides four grain os incense, hich a so mouldy that it

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loud and vehement in thei discourse findin these tole, as I di imagine, two philosopheis in a arm debate, I as resolve to ear ha they se id and be in concealed in a hic cloud I immediatet assi, me thei habitans appea rance, and by the heli os a long eard might easit have passe foris philosopher. Pelbowed through the croWd, and go in nobodyknowing, hoci as There I found that rascat Danais the Epicurean, illim o ood frien d Timocles the Stoic, in hi gli dispute. Timocles ad arguedhimself into a s weat, and almost cracked his voice illi roaring whilst Danais

continuexto provok him illi his Sardoni esse eers. Their,hole debare a concerning the villain amis dented that wetoo any care o moria is, o looked into their affairs; vir med in mori, that there,ere o go sint ali for that was plaint What he i med at, and many who ere present agree entiret y illi hi m. Timocles, on the otheriand,

who Nas of ur de of the question defende us illi alliis might, and shewed illi ha beauti ut orde an regularit Ne ruted an directed everything. He also et illi the rais an approbationis sonae, ut he was Doru gro ii tred, and spolie ut indifferently so that the multitude ea nedio variis Damis. Percei ving the anger emere in I commande night tosurro und themi, and ut an nil to the dispute. They parted there re, havi nisi Dagreed to rene the debat nex day. I follo ed the croud, andove rhear thei sentiment a the returne home, hicli,ere mostly in fa-vous o Danais, ho I found , ad go the majorit ora his fide me, in deed, eremo for predetermining the cause, ut resolve to ait ill theyheard what Timoclesia to a at thei nexi meeting. This, my brethren, is thebusnes for hic hes calledo ou together mat. ters, ou see, o no litile consequence and importance asin men allisur hono ur, glorJ , and wormi must depend. I the are iace persuaded that there areio gods orci there are that w take no care of human Tairs, we halliave o more gises, o victim frona them, but a sit an starve in heaven, Without festiva is holy-days, Walchings, sacrisces, or an pom p rceremon Whatssever These, I say, a re things of moment, anxit ili be- hove

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on this occasion. IUPITER.

Prosis age J Allud ing with a sileerito the number of ne god Who ha been admitted into the quorum, and who, consequently, couldae ut ouia in the usi ness. In the Athenian senate, notae ere sustere to spea who ere under hirt years of age. It ould not perhaps, he amisi, is a similaraa werea taxe place in the parti amenti Grea Britain. iraee Homer' Iliad book vii. l. 99.

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Not insorining him hether his arm Was to e his own or that os his

Anil again, Thou Salamis, stri fatexto destro

The sons of Nomentoria. No both Perstans and Greelcs, weano , Nereior Os Nomen. When, moreover, the are tot d by the rhapsodi sis, in thei verses, that we ali in ove, that e re made aves of an bound that e quarret with in another, and a re subjecto a thousand is fortunes, hera at thes a me time e reten d tot unchange able happy, and immortal, hat canu e expedi, ut that they must augh at, an de spisse us' nil et e re an gry ecause sonae mortals Who a re not mere o bis, sin fauit illi us, and en our provide nee, When, in faet w ought to thin k urselves elloff, that aster ali ur follies, there are sonae et re maining, ho sacrifice

prevent them an uni est furystheus, a good and just an led by humanit an compassion, adio sent his trust servant here, the industrious Helcules, litile ould o have care about the 4 Hydra the bird of

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Stymphalus, the Thracia horses, o the runken Dolics of the Centaurs. To say the truth, ait, trouble urseive abolat, is, o se that mortal sacrifice torus, and rais the moke at Cur altars e very thing et se florus on init own channei, and juras fortune a direct it it is not, therei se tobe ondere a no , nor lio ut it be hereaster, is me open the trisyes, and discove that it is of itile service to them to sacrifice and make libations torus. Many an Epicurus, Metrodorus, and Damis must yon expet to seel augh ingrat, an despisinnus, an diu advocate subdued an destroyed by them Berit our's, there re, to appeas these tumulis, Orao have rat sed them; our' to heal these Wound 8, forIoui ave inflicted them. Momus rura,

IUPITER. Shall,e, e go is suffer his ad mano rave on thus, at ways severe ashe is, an always abusive But, a the excellent Demosthenes says, it is very eas to censure, to calumniate, an fila fauit illi things, and a b done by any od who has a minit ocit; ut to ad vise eli ho the may bemended, is the parti a good and prudent counsellor and this, Pirust

I, Myo ali very wellano , live at the botto of the sea, and ahe care of thing there, preserve mariners, saVeriaips, and pacis the winds; at the fame timeri animo indisserent bout assair here an dis opinion is that this Damis stouldae immediately aheniis, e fore he enter again ora his disipute, itheri lighining ordome ther Way, for ea he mould get the betatera sor)oisa he has the talent of persuasion thus hall, mei man Lindiliat weano ho tot revenged on those ho declaim againstis. IUPITER. Surely, Neptune, o are in est, o mus have orgo that thes thingsaremo iniurio er, and that the lates lone determine hether a manis to diei lighining sever, Nord, o pestilen cera ere it no so, do outhin Liuould eve have suffered these sacrilegi Ous retches t have gone offwouldio agre to se it down as ne of the welve labour tote imposed on him, ecause do lau assisted him in the conquest The truth of this stor is that the marsties Ofierna were in sested with serpents of Whichribere seeme tot no end like the Hydra 'saeads , Herculesdrained the marines, and go rid of them ali the est is poetical able. Fates une. See Jupiter confuted in the precedin Dialogue.

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the cause, and achnota legemurselves tot overcome. NEPTUNE.

Veli Pont thought this a the hortest rea os gaining the victory. IUPITER. The best,a os hilling eis, rother, I grant ou is to spea them buti is a strange hind of device, to destro 3 our enem that he ma die unconquered, and at the sanie time, to leave the matte in dispute undetermined. NEPTUNE. Isis arguments are tote ELIFIE in hi manner, o ma even hinhos a belle method Ourset Ues. APOLLO.

had an altar erected to them, called the Βωμος των δω κα Θεων the altar of the welve ods. Pausanias telis us that the figures of them ere ainted in the portico of the Ceramicus, and that thei statues were rected in the temple o Megara The are likewise called by the poetar αδεδαι, and ρα ιεe, and Omeaualiors mali a distinistion bet ix the ουραδεω,a: and the λυμπιοι, giving the forme titie to the old gods, unde Saturn, hicli Lucia here calis Saturn's councit, :md the alter to the nexu gods, unde Iupiter. Is the reade is est rotis fanowing the ames

of these respectabie eathen idermen the are ac sol lows, Jupiter, Neptune, Apollo, Mi

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conversant illi.

IUPITER. Speah m sola, ou have re leave. APOLLO. This' imocles stem tot an hones man, a love of the go is, and oneWho is eli acquainte Nith the Stoic doctrines. He te aches philosophy to number of ouilis, and a Iam informed is elliat forcit; and et hecannot spea wel in a large company has a fallering oice, oes no puthis ord weli together, ut stulters, and even heni most, is hes o heruthe orator, is a semi-barbari an, and mahe the audience laugh at hi mu noti, ut he has an excellent under standing thin k deeply, and is horought y verse in ali the precept of his sedi, hicli, heia' ende avour to explainan illustrate, he ni confound 8, and akes the riddie ut the more obscurei his solution o it those, there re, Wh cannot Unde istand constanti laugh at hi m. A manciliould spea clearly, and with h perspicui ty, i he expect tot under stood. MOMUS. Yoia ive good advice, however, Apollo, and prat se that perspicuit; in others, hicli ou neve practi se ourseis forJOUr oracles a re alWay Obscure an perplexed, o that hat ne Pythian declares, and in need os

nerva, Ceres, Vulcan, uno, ars Mercury, Diana, Venus, Vesta. indar calis them , , ανακτες, the twelve hings. An old poetias put at their ames into four hexameter and pentameter verses, and another, illi great ingenui ty, crouded them into KO. Timocks. J Damis and Timocles ere, probably, in philosophers, the ne a Stoic the otheran Epicurean wellanown in Luci an ' time otio, like the orator of Our esim inster Forum, o Apollo Societ y diverted thenaseives illi public disputes o religious subjects Lucian, holaugiis at every thing takes this opportunit os produci ianthei characters, and exposing them both. Perspieui'. J Fieri poteti, lays Tully, ut recte quis sentiatin id quod sentit polite eloqui non possit, e mandare quenquam literis cogitationes suas, qui eas nec disponere, nec illi istrare possit, nec delectatione aliqua allicere lectorem, hominis et intemperanter abutentis Wotio literis.

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So the chil must have a tutor for hina in philosophy, to explain his mean in to the auditors Damis is to spea for himself, hilst the othermakes se of an actor, and whispers in his ear hat he would have him say, the puppet, perhaps, no understandin Whatae is to ulter for his friend:wouldio the audience laugh at this λ, must thin os sonae other method in the mea time, m nobi frien d forJo professaoursei tolera prophet, and indeed, are preti Nel pat for it hau in received many a good goldenarichin his account, no iue your ari, and teli us hich of these sophist will et theaetter; ou re a diviner, an must know ha is

Golde brici. Gr. πλινέους χρυσας, lateres aureos, edges, ricks, o large ieces of goldwere frequently sen to the oracles, and generali secured a favourable ansKer Lucia here alludes to the magnificent presentcsent i Delphos by Croesus. inter-

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17 3 interpretem there is no clam an tortois no tote rested in Lydia. acu

knowwhat the question is. IUPITER. What are o about o say, m sono for at ready Ι perceive the dreadfulpreparatives of the oracle; our colour changes, ou eyes ol about, ourhai stand an end, and there is a corybanti motion in libour limbs alipoint out the possessed the horribie, the mystic divini ty.

Anytheioru asst shali ore his nimbie oal. IUPITER. Momus, hy split our de thus this is no such laughing matter have

' Attend. ω . The ancient oracles, o give a greate solemnit to thei predit tions generali deli vered them in verse the originat is in hexameters, an imitate froin the ποτσις fAristophanes. The oracular pom p obscuri ty, and nonsense, is finel burtes lued in this speech

b Apollo. No Themi oles.' De instantibus optissime judicabat, de tuturis callidissime conjiciebat stys

Cornelius Nepos, in his life of Themistocles, and a litile aster, proves the truth f his assertion, b observing that when the Pythia oracle a consulte concerning the expeditionis Xerxes against Greece, therans rWas, ut moenibus ligneis se munirent, that thensiould defend them-ielves

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oracle clearly means that he is an impostor, and wemni pack-asies and mutest inive credit o im, Without more rander standin than O many grass-

HERCULE S.

And now, ather, though Lami ut as a strange here, I ill ventur togive o in opinion am so permitting the combatanis to procee in thei controversy and D find thing go rong, I Will, Dyo thin proper,puli the whole portico do An pon the head os Danais that he ma no longer

So, hen Philled a ioni a hydra the Fates dixit through me:

IUPITER. Certa in ly. HERCULE S. And i any od abuses me, tunder m temple, o throw down mystatue, I must notanoc him o the head untes the Fates have so decreed: JUPITER.

HERCULE S. Hear me then Iupiter, hi lit Pspeatam sentiments Pam a Dee speaher,

selves xviiii liei Wooden alis; hich, i seems, obod undet stood ut Themistocles, havery sagaci ouily lator me them, that by ooden alis, nothing more a meant, tha thattheytiould trulla their hippin Dor marine torce, as thei hestiui ar against the enemy. Apiece of advice a sui table o old Englandis ali times, ascit could possibi berio ancient Greece. reticis. This as a common Grecian ath. The applyiniit in conversation illi Hercules himself has methin laughable in it.' Ba otian. Bceotia, a cit of Greece, as unsortunatet distingui med though weanoruno isellin hat oundation, for the ignorane and 1tupidit os iis inhabitanis, and vin ancient Boeotian was suppost to have a litile it as a modern Laplander : ence the epithet Boeotium always igni fled eavy. A person o a clownish an aukwar deportinent, a calle sus Boeotia, and Horace, si ea ingi a duli felloiu says,

Boeotum in crasso iurare aere natum.

Boeotia, in istori, a themoliandi antiqui ty. a.