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is there so ridiculous in hat Psa id p

Alfar. J Alludin to murtherer an lither criminals yin se melle to the temples of thegods, here the were alway sese, non dari indito follo them into the sacred asylum. Thiscussom, among many other pagan superstitious practices, has been adopte into the Romistichurch, an is ne of thos reproaches, hic li, as it is rendered serviceable to the cause of superstition her etealous defender do not Wish o ipe Way.

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MERCURY.It was a good observation, Pthin k of the ' comi poet, that o injur is done, here non is feli: and what great harnacis it is a se mesa go a wayPersuaded by this sello N, he ther are so many thousand who hin thecontrary three paris of the Grecians, ali the rabbie, and ali the Barbari an s. IUPITER.

True, Mercur : ut a Darius a id of ' Zopyrus Phad ather have this Danais on in side than a thousand Babylons

Comio poet. J Menander i is amongst the fragment cited by Plutarch. 4 Zoortis. J Darius, e are told, Wed the ingdom o Babylon to the contrivance of this ingenio us genti eman who, at the siege of that city, hau in ilit his π nose, ut is his ears, and mangle his Ody in various paris, presented himself in that condition to the Babylonians; complaine to them os Darius' crueity, hicli ad reduce hi to that readfui state, and vowed revenge against hi m. The Babylonians inere taken in entrusted hi in illi the command of thei ariny, hicli, in consequence of a preconcerte scheme et ween him and Darius, hebeti ayed to that monarch, andiu him in possessionis Babylon Darius, after the conquest, is reported by Herodotus, o have said that he would ather isti to se Zopyrus sese, uulturi, audin mai med than to acquire twent more Babylon besides that hich he had at ready sub- dued. V Theserare the word of Herodotus, hicli Jupiter here applies; ut, a the readerma observe, With a litile variation to his friendi amis. The account of this transaction tollat large, a be Dund at the end of the third book or Thalia, o Herodotus.

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Or, scit is aso calleri for a very obviolis Resson, the DREAM, Done of LUCI AN 'smos entertaining Dialogues. Mela of G Hremour and Plessant runs throughthat cannot fallo recommen it lo ever Reader of Tas and Genius. The -- Ihor has mari an excellent Use of the Pythagorean Do Irine of the Transmigrationos Sonis, hich is, in Led, a rich Fund for Ridicule, and a Lindis Hol-bed forrae Productions of Fancyand Imagination amon Goth ancient an i modern I riters.

There is a Gell,ritte essa on his stibject in the periodicat aper calle Tua o Lo, by the ingeni ou SOAM JεNK1 Nos, Esq. to hic Prese m readers, as a prope commentationis this dialogue.

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Yoiseem my good master, tot ver illiterate, an neve to have eadHomer, here ' Xanthus, Achilles horse, alie his leave of eighing, and in the id ille of the batile, talks a Way, o like me, in humi, te prose,

JVisis Hr eri. orling. J Greeh, τερασιε. The ancient gave their god different epitheis in con sequene of the different functions assigne to thema thus upiter Nas called ξενιος, the hospita table, φιλιος the friendly, σκιηπιουχος, the scepter-bearer, P. Lucia here gives hi in the nerun a me of τε σιος Prodigialis, o the onder Norkerri alludin to the extraordinary prodi gy of speaking coch. , Xanthus. J Alludin to that passage in the alter end of the ineleenth book of the Iliad, Where Achilles addi esse his pontes, Xanthus and Balius o Podarges strain. The forme answers him, and foretelis his death. Homer telis us, that Iuno endo Ved linwith the facult of speech on his occasion, and the Furies took it aWay again immediat ely. Luci an ullo neve mi isses an opportunit o ridiculing Homer' speciosa miracula, eiges on thisto augh at hi in or the improbabilit of this event. Seelope' Homer' Iliad book xix. l. 6. Shi'. J The Dinous hip that carried Jason to Colchos in earch of the goiden fleece, assaid o have been made ut o the ak of Dodona, sacred to Jupiter, rom hici ruere deli ver-ed so man fine oracles: that these alis ere oracular no orthodox heathen eve doubtes sortue his ' speaxing. e have no authorit but Luci an 's. L Oxi u. J Alludin to that passage in the Odyssey, here the companion o Ulyses sex theoxen of the sun an mos strange prodigies euiued for Heau n

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Do noti abusive, my good frien d forano Lam that ver Pythagoras: be quiet, there fore, ill yo se What sor os a person Lam.

T iv M. The Pythagoreansaad a very good reain se abstaining rom fiesh, as theywere persuaded that the ouis of men transmigrate into animais, birds, c. and that eating, thereiore theirmem, might be eeding on thei oKn relations as Ovidiosi charmingi and poeticuli expresses thei sentiments, Nos quoque pars mundi quoniam non corpora solum Verum etiam volucres animae imaus, inque ferinas Possumus ire domos, pecudumque in pectora condi Corpora, quae possint animas habuisse parentum, Aut fratrum, aut aliquo junctorum foedere nobis, Aut hominum, certe, tuta esse .honesta simamus i Neve Thyesteaeis cumulemur Viscera mensIS.

See the fifteenth book of the Metamorphosis, here the whole Pythagorean system is beauti fuit explained and illustrated. - Euphorbus. J nother Trojan who ad the honour of oundin Patroclus. Se a d seriptionis him in theixteenth book of the ili ad 'e was aste ard flain is Menelaus. Con- cuining the transmigration, se Ovid, Trojani tempore belli Panthoides Euphorbus eram, Se roo xv. l. 6 MI

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there is ver litti probabilit in ali his, specially, heia I perceive Nothings in ou that suit ut ill with a Pythagoras.

A Samian. Pythagoras as of Samos. Amanagraean. Tanagra, a to o Boeotia, on the Euripus was amous, as et as

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Pythagoras, hat a quantity of it didri belloid hining and obeauti fui reliat is it that Pindar lay in prat se of it in the beginning of his finest ode, here he tallis firaeos ater d you remember λ

And columns air, incas'd with polisti' horn; Where images of truth sor passage ait, With vision manifestis future fate. See Pope' Homer' Odyssey, . ix. l. 6s6. This is a ver indifferent transationis the lines in Homer, ut Phave no time at present togive in readers a better See also the lalter end of the sinth book of Virgil's AEneid.

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Frona ala conspicuous gleam,

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there fore, made a motion to retire, hen Eucrates seein m pileous face,

came, ve lust yountselloKs, with sonae dissicut ty, iste the philosopher