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allivera pitch, romiein han ille every a by the statuaries. Why in

Danais and - A boa at way say, es cali a spade, a spade. V very nation, asci observed in a sorinem

note has a different anne os expressinit his sentiment chos to preserve the original dea. A homo-quitum, J In the Grecian couris of uilice here Nere No sors of evidelices, befirst of hicli a calle εχ αξτυρια , he the person, o homC- itness, wh More, as an eye-witnes of the fact; the ther em by the Rame of εκμαρτυρια, heia the uror received ha helesti fied froin another person ho had Qen it allegations , ONever, rom absent person ruere seldom aken or la tu evideiace. The witnesse always rote do via thei testimon on tableis but the tableis of those lio came rom homerio deli ver thei testimontes ere disterent Domthos of the witnesse Kho came casuali into court This a sussice to explain to the reader the appellation Da home-witness, as applied o Hercules. See Potier.

Pifeh. This amotis brage statue o Mercury, o frequently mentione by the ancient, was confidered, like ou Venus o Medicis, as a standardi persed tion, the statuaries, there- re, ere perpetuali taking modet of it, hicli, e suppose, the di by eneruli in thewhole ver illi a mould of pitch, o molit clay, and se procul in an exect resemblance of r. The idea fis od in his diri condition running u on an errando heaven, and ad-dreising upiter in heroi es, has semething truly laughable in it.

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IUPITER. Ceaseuli tragedi sinistrain, Andrieli me,so Ianow hom ou mean are the en gaged in batile λHERMAGORAS. Not quite a litile stirmis licis' eguia, the are staking thei sings, and

IUPITER. Thus far ut frien has the eiter of him helawl loud est, and demsmost in earn est Vel done Timocles, abus him and somely that is your forte a to every thing et se, he will oon mahe o as mutem a sim.

Ceafe, lue. It is observabi that these Nord are in verse, as et a Mercury'su Iupiter, insensibi ascit ere, return the compliment in heroi cs, though e desitres him to leave itost , and descenda plui prose.' ut pry c. J See Pope' Homer' Iliad book vii l. 23 i. What des, se. The god are supposed nox toae go with in hearing of the dispute, and listentia tocit. Timoclesiegins Lucian's motions on these occasions are generali very rapid, e carries us, like Horace' tragic poet, ut , hereae pleases, Modo nos Thebis modo ponit Athenas. Alicis animaled changelat, and entertaining. I.

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Bymo means.

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haps, the are gone o the ther fide of the ocean, To grace

se asons, the generationis planis an animais, the creature them lues, form-

acknowlege that o provide iace the are indebled for their orde an regularit 3 the man, there re says in the t comedy, thi argumen is nought, hi in me an Other.

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ened I suppose, by the wound he had received frona Diomede, anu Against Latona march'd the se of May.or, perhaps, o was struch illi the probabilit of l Diana' resentur her

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Sedit hians. Se Lucian's Toxaris. Zamouis. J his extraordinar personagemas, as Herodotus insorm us, amave in Ionia, but notis Luci an alis him, a fugitivea e came to Thrace, herem acquire great riches, reformed an instructed theseople he vanished on a sudden stomahel right hi himselfforthree years, and on his return, a Worsta ippe a a god.

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IUPITER. Momus, ou helint ruin us Withoour impertinent rem arks.

Ibis. J -- Crocodilon adorat, Pars haec, illa pavet saturam serpentibus Ibin juv. Cynocephalus. J Dog's-head Anubis, the god of the AEgyptians, and supposed by ome tobe the sameras the Grecia Mercuiγ, eing osten calle Hermanubis hecis represented with

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by the ear. Disha.J Alludin to the sarage custo in Tauri Scythia, o sacrificis strangeticis

Diana.

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The silp, then, could o have salie Without a pilot an do thouthin this universe could subsist Rithout a guide and director λ

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parricide perhaps, a buffoon, or a pathic, hold the best places in the stip,

Callia, So. A amou libertine, satirired by the comi poet Cratimis, se debauching the wife or Phorus o Phoryon, and buying ost the indidiment against him for three talents. Midia,

is censured by Plato anyothere, as a Wiched fello v and an embearier of the public mone en-trusted olim Sardanapalus asinain o Assyria, remarhable sor his vices, dissipation, and effeminacy, hic ended in the destructionis himself, and the ruinis his empire. Fusifait. Μomus, o carry on the allusion speak in thesailor' style, and concludes the allegory, hichris carri edin throughout illi the greatest degre of humou and proprie .

Saered anchor. J Iacere sacram ancoram, to thro out the sacred anchor, as a proverbial