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concerning the deities fine says that Q umber is a god other sive a by' Dogs, eese, an Plane-trees: me iue the tale De very th in to onego alone, and ahe way ali power frona the rest, a carcit o deities hi chl could not ellirook other more liberal, increa sed the number of gods, and gave tomachiis separate province and employment, calling one heirst, an alio tinxto other the secondis third an os divinit Some held that god were incorporeat, and without fornaci ther suppo sed hi mo have abody. It was by no means universali acknowlege that the god took cogni lance of human assairs sonae there e re ho exempte them frona all. care an solicitude, as e exoneratemur id me fronatu sines an diro ubi eu

Number. J Alludin to the doctrine of Pythagoras, accordin to hom, number is the principi most providentialis ali heaven and earth, the oo os divine beings, of od an da . mons the fountain and root of ali hings that hicli, e re ali hings, exist in the di Vine milid, rom, hicli, andiu of hicli, at things are digested into order, an rema in numbered by an indissolubie series. The whole syllem of the Pythagorean is a large explaine and illustrat edi Stantey See his Lives of hilosophers, page 377. - Dogs, Gese, taci See ou author 's Auction o Lives, here Socrates sivears by the or

name of the gods this is a Lindis religious reas an the custom a there fore, Porphyr telisus, adopte by the wis an pio is Socrates Lucian, o ever, Wh laugiis at very thingliere a weli a the place above quot ed , ridicules him for t.

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represented a probabie, and the able-writer' sop confirmexit, ho carries up, nolint his agi es, ut his beet les, and camel thither mahewings for myself, was impossit te, ut o fit tho se of a vultu and an agi tomyiody might I imagine J, an Mer the sanae purpo se resolved there- fore, to try the experiment, and cui os the right in Ofine, and the lesto the other bound them in illi thongs, an a the extremities made

hut that concerning the camel I neve met illi.' Aeropolis. J That par of thens hic Nas calle the uppe city in opposition to thedi κατωπους, ordo C cit the Acropolis asin the opis, hi gh ock. Parnethes o H mitius mountainsmea Athens. D Geranea. J A mountain hetineen Geranea an Corinth. I Pholot, high mountain in Arcadia, to the west o Elis Erymanthus, nother, bordering upo Achaia Taygetus, nother, reachin norit, Wards, to the laot of the mountain o Arcadia.

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1 CARO - MENIPPUS. at 7

thing that a do in Lupon arti, nolint Rhole nation an Cities, ut allthe inhabitants of them, hether aging war, culti vatin thei sields, try ingcauses, o any thin et se thei Nomen, animais, verything, in hori, Nasbes ore me. FRIEND.

Most improbabie, ali his, and contradictory; ou tol l me ut jus be-

I than k o sor uti in me in mini of hat Phad sorgo to mention. When I ehel the earth, ut could no distinguis the object tapon it, naccount of the immense distance, I as horribi vexed a it, an ready tocry, heia, On a sudden, - , Empedocles the philosopher stoodie hin me, aliisve assa es, a blac as a coal, and re ad nilly corche heia Plata hina,

Rhodia Colossus J See note on this in a forme dialogue., Empedocles. J It is reportedit Empedocles that he en to Et ita, Whcre e leaped in to thesi re, that he might leave belli nil him an opinion that he was a god, and that it was alterivariis discoxered by one of his sandals, hici, theire cast up again, o his sandat were os brassi See Stantey's Lives of the Philosopheis. The maniae of his death is relate different lyra different authors. his as however, the generali received able Lucian, illi an equat degree of probabili ty, carries hin up to the OOn.

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1 CARO - MENIPPUS. et 'sister Lysimachus etrayed by his son Aiatiochus in triguing illi his' mother-i13-law; Alexander the Thessalia n, siaini his isse H Antigonus in adultery illi his aughter- in law; an Attalus polsoned by his son: iua nother place, Psa Arsaces kill in his i , and the eunuch Arbace dra initiis inordipon Arsaces Spartim, the Mede, dragged by the heel fomtheianque by his uariis, and noche o theae ad illi a cup. In thepalaces of Scythia an Thrace, the sanae vi chediaess asino in for ard and nothing could I seelut murtherers, adulterers, conspirators, ravi mers, falses earers, men in perpetuat terrors, and betrayed by thei dea res frientis and

ac quaintance.

Such was the employment of hings and great meri in private licus es ther was ometh in more ridiculo us there I sa Hermodorus the Epicureanforsruearin himself for a thous and drachmas Agathocles the Stoic quar- reling illi his discipies abo ut the salary for tuition Clinias the orator steat . ing a phialiut of the temple and Herophilus the Cynic seeping in alawdy-

ed to, hicli, at his distance of time, erare unacquainted illi, though the tacts Kere probab lyat that time ellinown, and remembered by every body.

δόAU. J Us Achilles. See theci Sth book of the Iliad.

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extensive theatre sullis various hapes and Ornas, very thin was attero lavo liter and ridicule : bove ait, Ι could not hel smil in at those hoquarret about the boundaries of thei titile territory, and anc them se lues reat ecause the occup a i Sicyonian eld, or posses that par of Marathon hichior ter on Oenoe or a re master of a thousan acres in Acharriae; hen, after ali, o me, Iulio ooked frona bove, Greece a but Mursinoeers in breadth, and Attica a very mali portionis it in deed could noti, ut hin ho litile these ricli me had tot proud of he who was lor of

the most extensive counts o ne a pol that appeare to me bout a largeas one o Epicurus' a tonas. When Plooked do mupo Peloponnesus, and be-

helix Cynuria, I reflected illi aston istiment ora the number of Argives and Lacedaemonians ho felici one day, fghtinisor a plece of land o bigger than an Egyptia lentile; and hera I sa a mani roodin ove his go id, and boastingahat he had go tu cups o ei ght rings, Plaughed mos hearti ly

Such mst friendo Vo. How ust and elegant is his comparison - a j I Greeli, ὁ χορηγος. Sicyoniatici Sicyon a a cit nea Corinth, amotis o the richnes and felicit Ofit soli. Cotitiriaci The amous Ager Cynurius, a litile illi id of Laconia, o the confines of Argolis the Argives an Spartans, hom it laidiet een agieed to decide the properi oscit bythree hundred en os a fide in the fel dri the batile asilood and desperate, ni one an re- maining alive Othryades, the Lacedaemonian who immediat ely though covered with wounds, ibi sed a trophy, hichrae inscribe with his xvii lood, to Jupiter Tropaeus This victorythe Spartans, hos: om that time had qui et possession os the fiet d, early celebrat ed with a festi-

val, to commemorate the event.

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1 CARO - Μ ENIPPUS. 22 Iat hi in t whil the whol l Pangaeus, illi ali iis mines seemedio larger

Wings, and seruiis,' o oin the sacre senate of the seres. Scarce had I gone a furtong, hen the oon, in a sost se male voice, crie lout o me, Menippus, ill o carr someth in for me to Jupiter, soma your ourne be prosperous.' Mith at my heari, se id I, Di is nothingvery heavy. V ni a me Tage, replied me, a mali petition to hina: m patienceris absolutet Nor out by the philosophers, wh are perpetuat lydisputin about me, hori am, of What Ze ho it appens that I amsonae times round and fuit, at ther cut in half, o me a I am inhabited, other that Lamini a looking-glas hangin ove the ea, ando hundred conjectures of this kin d; even m l light, the lay, is non eis, O n,

i Pangaeus A mountainis brace Dion Cassi is places itinea Philippi. It was supposedio have abo unded inviolden mines in sonae paris oscit. Murmidons. When acus was king of Thessaly, his kingdom as alino depopulat edi ad readfui pestilence he praye to Jupiter o veri the illemper, and rea med that he ax an

innumerable quantityi Dant creepitat oi an oldiali, hici, were immediatet turne i into men whenae aruoke, the dream inas sulfilled, and he found his ingdom more populous than ver; froni that time the eopte ere called Myrmidons Such is the fabie, hich owed iis rise meret to the nam o Myrmidons, hicli it a supposed must come frona αυρι ηξ, an ant, Urpismire To sonae such trifin circumstances a these e re indebled sor half the fabies of antiqui ty. - Tobois, s e J See Homer' lli ad book i. l. 9έ. M ljbf. This a the opinion tranaxagoras, and is confirmed by the more accurate Observations of modern philosophy.

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but stolen frona the unci thus en de avouringeto et me and y brother together by the ears, no content inith abusing him, and callin him 'otione, an a massi fire. In the mea time, Pana no strange to hat these men, Who look so grave and owe ali Jay, a re do ingi'nighis; ut se an saynothing, notath in kiniit decent tota ope thei vile and abominabie lives tot he public for hera I catch them committing adultery thieving, o practi sing any of thei nocturnal trichs DKraphys et up in a cloud, hac maynot exposse to the worid a parcet os id felloins, lio, in spite of their longbeards, and profession si viriue, area alit os e ver vice, and et the areat ways ait ingrat and abusing me. 4 ea by night I have osten resolve lio move fartheriis to geli ut of the reach of thei bus longuesci an Phegyo would et Jupiter ilia I cannot possibi sta here an longer uni est hewil destroy these naturali sis, op the mouilis of the logicians, thro dorun the Portico, burn the Academ y, and mahe an end of the inhabitant of Peripatus M a I et o a last a litile est, hicli these fellows are perpe

diate ly, and carried ita his master; oon after I was et in and tremi, lingsnd quaking ith fear, ound ali the god siti in together, and seem inglyno a litile alarme a m appearance there, expecting, probab ly that theyshould oon have a number of inged mortal travelling up to them in thesa me manner: hen Jupiter, ookin a me illi a most severe and ' Ti

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At his I thought I siould have die Nith fear I stoo motioni est, an d

astoni med at the arui haes and majest of his voice ; ut recoverin myselfin a mortui me, I relatest hina very th in frona thei egintaing, ore de sirous I was of knowing sublime trullis, o I en to the philosophers, and hearing them contradictine another, and dri Ven to despa ir, thoughtin the scheme of mal in me ings, with ait thalaad appened in myci ourneyquite uinto heaven. Uthen deli vered the message to in frona the oon, at hich, ostenm his contracte broN, he mile a me, an cri ed, 'hat were ' Otus and phialtes in compari solam Menippus, ho hasthus dare tora uinto heaven : ut come, emo inVite Ou to suppe rei thus, to-morro Ne ill atten to your usiness, an dii missi ou.' At thesewordoli roseminand wen to that par of heaven here every thinifronale lorucouldie heari most distinctly for his, it seems, a the time appo intellto hea petitions. As we went long he sic ed me severa question abo ut earthi matters sicli as, Ho much cor is there at present in re ece pliadio a hard inter last year andi id our abbages an ratis is a ny of Phidias' famil alive noN What is the reason that the Athenians havelestiis sacrificindito me for so many yearso do the th in os bui id in his the Olympia temple gales are the hie ves ta ken that robbed the Dodo naean λ' hen Phad anfwere ali these, iray, Menippus, salilae, haldoes an k in reatly th in o me Hota stould the thin k of you, a id but illi the ulmo veneration, that yo are the greatio vere ignis the gods. V There oti est, ait he I am ure, I kno, Neli enough horu fond the are

Sa 40ho, 'L. See Homer' Odyssiey, . v. 7o. Ottis. J Otus and Ephialae Nere tino iant of an enorm ous Ze me of the ancients who, o doubi, ere Iact in thei meas urement, asture Us that, at ni ne ear old the werentne cubit round and thirty- si high, and gre in proportion, ill the thought prope to attach, and endea voti to ethrone Jupiter sor hicli purpos the pile molant si an Pelioli upon Olympus, ad Mars prilbner, an played severat trick of this hind, ill Diana by ar tisiee subdue them, contriving, sonae Way or ther, o make them ilico thei arrows againstaud destro each ther, after Whicli upiter sent them O n to Tartarus. Some attribute to Apollo the honour os conquering the m. his stor has been explained, and allegoriaed, and tortur Dio an disterent Nays that it is no eas to nrave the foundationis it.: Phidia,'s, e Iupiter though himself, Ne a suppose, much oblige to Phidias sorine amous statue hici heia made of him, and there re in return, complais antly nquires after his fami ly.

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o novel ty though ou illiso oKn it there Nas a time, in deed, lienes was held in sonae estimation, heia I Was the reat physician, henes asevery thing, in hori, When stre eis, and lanes, an ali as ullis Iove. Pisa anda Dodona Nere distingui sae above ver place, and I could notse for the smok of sacrifices; ut, ince Apollo has et up his oracle at Delphi, and Esculapius practis es physic a Pergamus; since temples have been erected , Bendis a Thrace, to Anubis in Egypt an to Diana at Ephesus, ver bod runs after thenari illi them the feast, to them theyosse up thei hecatombs, and thin it honour nough for a orn-out go as Irim, is the sacrifice Once in si x ear at Olympia; hil my altar are scolixand neglected a i Plato' laKs, o the syllogis nasi Chrysippus.

With his and ich- like chat e passe Maway the time, ill e came tolli place here the petitions ere orae eard here e found severat holes, with coversa them, and clos to very one a place a goiden chair. Ju

' VI eni, pers. J Fro Aratus.' Pisa. cit 3 o Elis, here there as a temple dedicate to Olympia Iupiter, and public games celebra ted every fifth year. Dodona. J A cit os Thessaly, here there Was a templerio Iovea his a likewis the seat

o the amous oracle.

Bendis. A goddes Worstiippe in Thrace Hesychius Dys this as Only another ameformiana. See Strabo. t Plato' laqus. J Alludin to his republic, hicli, probably, a considered by Luci an and others, as a Lind of topian system.