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and thin k, and speakfor ali, and subjectis to innumerable cares, and ternaldisquietude. Me member hat Homer lays, The Ling alone illi various thoughis oppress 'd, His count ry's cares a rollin in his reast. An this, hiis the Greeks e re ali noring. A dumi, o made Croesus miserable and ho dixi Clearchus use Xerxes by lead ingra foret gra ar myin favouris Cyrus t Dionysius amicted another, by hold in conferen ce illiso me of the Syracusans; Alexander as ealous o Parmenio Ptolemyen vied Perdiccas, and Seleucus Ptolem the ho un happy is the prince, is his ni isti esse is no fond of him, or perhaps, oves omebod ei se helicars thatio me of his c uriters have deserte hina, o sees t o or three of his dependent xv hispering together i ut halcis stili orse, the a re alwayssuspecting their deare friends, and in re ad of heingae trayed by them for omeli mesone is polsoned by his son, notheri his mistresse another MICYLLUS. no more oscit for heaven' salie ali his is terribi in dee&; it is et-ter, I finit, tot rea one' bach witii mendi nisto es than to drin hem lochand aconite uti a goiden cup. I myanis stips, the worst that can hap
The his lone, Ue. J See s iner' Iliad b. X. l. 3., Clearchus. Se Xenophon' Retreat os the et Thousand. Maeander. See Quintus Curtius. one
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Cati open. This circumstance of the Cock' ather is himsical and ingenioris. e Sage Rem to have haesit in his eye in his Diable Boiteux, here heuakes se of simila contrivance: Perhaps, indeed the whole nocturna expedition in that excellent romance, may oKe iis riserio the hin here gi veni Lucian.
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Patis Alludi indit Simo' havingi tolen ne of the obter' pans, a mentioned in the be-ψnning of this dialogue.
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MENIPPUS. Marve not m friend, D ulter hings aeriai and sublime for I am re- counting the wonder of m late ourney. FRIEND. What tracing ou road by the stars, a the ' Phoenicians do
' Stadia. The ancient Gree stadium is supposed to have contained an hundred and wenty- sue geometrical paces, o si hundred and twenty-sve Roman feet, corresponding to ur fur-long. Eight stadia mali a geometricat, or Italian miles and wenty, accordin to Dacier, a French league. It is observed notivit listanding, by Guilletiere, a famotis rench writer, that the stadium aconi si hundred Atheni an feet, si hundred an iou Englisti stet, or a hundred and three geometrical Paces. The Greeks meas tred ali thei distances by stadia, hicli, after ali, cara discove eoncerning them, re disterent in different times and places. t Phoeni abis. The Phoenicians, it is supposed, ere the sirst saliors, andraeere theircoui se according to the appearance of the stat s.
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MENIPPUS. No se by Joves I have been amongst the star thenaseives. FRIEND. Yo must have ad a long ream, in deed, o trave so many leagues incit. MENIPPUS. I is no ream, I assure o am just arrived rom Iupiter. FRIEND. How say oi Menippus, et do inia frona heaven MENIPPUS. Eve so this moment come frona the nce, here I have Dei and eardthing most strange an miraculous Is o do ubi the truth oscillem the happie mali Uberio have seen haesis past belles. FRIEND. How is it possit, te, o heaveni an divine Menippus, that a mere mortal like me, hould dispute the Veracit os ne ho has been carri edabove the cloudq; ne to spea in the language of Homer of thes inhabitant of heaven. ut in forna me, I beseech Ou, hich Way o got up, and liore o procured so many ladderM: for by our appea rance, Icilio uidno talae o for another ' Phrygia boy tot carrie ui by an agie, and
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Lartis.J Icarus Icariis nomina fecit aquis. The stor is to wellano vn to standri need os an illustration his accounts for the ille of Icaro-Menippus. Eos D. See bismo Wilkins' Arti Flying. here this ingenio us contrivance of Menippus' is greatly improvexupon. For a humourous det ait of the many advantages attending this nobi art, I reser in reader to the pediator.
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pierces through very thing the impetuo us hunder, thes ratia, hall, and Doru, ali ai sedi admiration, and see med inexplicabie to humanoea n.
In his siluationi mind thei est hing I thought hic hes could possibi do,
pudence in the relation os extraordinary evenis to th in that men, hocreep pon this artii, an are notis hi Wiser, O ca see farther than ur-selves, o me of the old, linii, and la Zy, sliould preten to kno the limit and extent of heaven, meas ure the sun 's circuit, and wal above themoon that the would ei us the si Ze an formis the ars, asci theywere just come down Do in thema that hos , ho carcet knowio many furtong it is rom Athen to Megara, sto ut inform ou exacti ho many cubit distanc the in is frona the oon, mould mar o ut theraei ght of the air, and the depiles of the sea, describe circles, frona quares pota tri-
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ano les, ah spheres, and determine the tength and re ad th of heaven it-1elf is it no to the last egre impudent an audaci ou hen the tal of thing thus obscure and uia intelligibie, o meret to osse thei opinion asconjectures, ut boldi m urge an insist pota them to do very thingiuiswear, that the uncis mas is liquid re that the oon is inhabited, that ille star drinii ater, and that the sun dra s up the moisture frona thesea, as illi a xvell-rope, and distributes his draught ove the whole creation λHo litile the agre u pon any one hin g, and what a variet os tenet theyembra ce, si ut to evident for fir st, illi regari to the worid, thei opinion a re totali 1 different sonae assii in that i ha thieit herlegi nning norin d; sonae, hom I cannotitit admire potnt ut torus the anne os iis construction, and the akeris it a supreme deity, Whom the wormip as creator of the universe; ut the have no tot dis hen cerae came, nor herei exists: nei ther, besore the formation of this orld, an e have an id eam time or
Thestiis is, Ni . This a the opinion o AnaXagoras, ne of the Ioni philosophera, bor at Clazomene, in the first year of the eventi et Olympiad. Se Plutarch and Diogenes
Ideat. Alluding to the doctrines of Plato an Aristolle. A nudi Go, Us. This was the opinion o Democritus, ho et that here ere infinite worid in infinite pace, accordin to ali circumflances, ome of Whicli are o oni like to ne another ut every way so persedit an absolutet equat, that here is no disteretice et Aixtthem See Plutarch and Tully, Quest Acad. Ahotbi r. Empedocles, of Agrigentum, a Pythagorean he held that there are Ko principat potversia nature, amity an discord, and that Sometimes by frien istii p, ali areani in one, Sometimes, b discord sever'd and undone.
See Statile 's Lives of the Philoliphers, page 3 a. concerning