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an ble the wic ked and Oolista nec bach that the mi i lit no ris toli cave one petition in deed, puZZledraim a litile; two men scin favoursos him, direct ly contrary to ach other, at the same time, and promising the sanae sacrifice he was atra tosi hic licio oblige te ecam immediatet a persed Academic, and like ' Pytalio, as held in suspense et ween them. When he had done illi the prayers, e satio Vn pol the ex chair, veranother hole, and iste ne to ethose 'ho ere iwearing an mali in vows :when he had finis hed his business, and Qestroyed Hermodorus, the Epicurean sorte Ury, e removeil O the ex seat, and ave audience to the auguri es, oracles, and divinations hicli avin dispalched, e proceededio the hole that rought up the sume of the victims, together illi thena me of the sacrificer Theni gave ut his ordei s to the in is andiorna : iet there e rain to-da in Scythia, lighining in Africa, and novi in Greece do yota Boreas, bio in Lydia, and whilst Notus te stili, et the North, i d ais the waves of the Adriatic, and about a thous and meas ures
of hail e prinkledive Cappadocia. When Jupiter ad done ali his usiness, e repatred to the east sor twas no v supper-rime, and Mercuryiade me si do uni Pan, the Corybantes, Attis, and Saba Zius, a Lindis demi-gods, horare admitted a visitors there Ceres serve lis illi bre ad , and Bacchus illi inea Hercules hand exabout the lem, Venus scattered myriles, and Neptune brough us sim not to mentio that go syly a litti nect ar and ambrosiaci for my friendGanymede, ut o good- nature, iste fi Jove ooking anothe way, ould frequently thro me in a cup O two. The greater go is, a ' Homer telisus who, Psippo se, ad seen them as et a myselo, never aste meat orwine, ut laedi pon ambrosia, and get runk illi nectar, at the a me timethei greatest luxury is, instea os victu ais, o sic in the fumes that risesrom the victims, and thyblood of the sacrifices that re os redis to them. Whil we were at supper. Apollo played in the harp, Silenus an ced
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a cordax, and the Muses repeated Hesiod' Theogony, and the sirsi de os Pindar. When these recreations ere ver, Ne ali retired, tolerabl 'isell-
him a beard andio there came toae night in heaven though the sun is always present there, and Dastin wit them. I sep a litile, an early in the orning Iupiter ordere the rier o summon a counci of the gods; and when the were ali assembled thus ad dressed himself to them. The stranger, lio came heres esterday, is the chie cause of in convening yo this ab . I have long anted o talla illi ou concerning the philosophers, and the complainis no sent to Us seo the oon ahe itim mediatet necessar to take the assai into consideration there is latelysprung up a race of men, soth fui, quarret me, ain-glorious, Dolisti, petulant, gluttonous, proud, abusive in hori, hat Homer calis,li An die burthen to the ground . These, divid in thenaseives into sects, run through at the labyrintlis of disputation calling themselves Stoles, Academics, Epicureans, Peripatetics, and a hundred ther ames stili more ridiculous the wrapping thenaseives Di in the sacre vellis virtve, the contiae thei brows, and et downthei beards, unde a specious appe arancea id ing the most abandone profi-gac like ne of the players o the stage, i yo stri hi in f his fine habit, wrought with gold, ali that rem ain bellindris a ridiculous spectacle of a lit-lle contemptibi felloK, ire to appea there for seven drachmas and et these mei de spisse ver body tal absurdi of the gods, and draiuin in a
Midis, E . J See Homer' Iliad book xviii. l. 3 . number
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hiimber os credulous boys, roa to them in a tragica style asout triue, and enter into disputations that are en dies anxian prositable To thei disecipies the crym fortitude and temperance, a contemptis riches an dilea- lares, and when alone, indulge in tot an debauchery. The most into ierable of altris that though the contribute noth indito Nard the good and wellare of the communi ty though the are Unhno K althe in councillan in seld yet are the perpetuali findi notauit illi, abusing an revit in otheis. andae s counte the greatest among them horis mos impudent, oisy, and malevolent is ne mouid a to ne of the se fellorus h si ea illissevery body What service are o of to the common ealth he would re plue , iste spoke Diri and honestly be a fallor, or a sol dier, o a us band man, or a mechanic, I hin beneati me; butes an mali a noi se an look irty, wasti mysel in cold ater, o bare- O ali, inter, and then, like Momus, find Dult illi very bod ei se any ricli an ipsi uxuriousy, o Leeps a misi resse, I rai at, an abus him; ut is a nyo m frien d or ac quaintanc sal sic k, and want m assistance, I ake nonotice of them.
Such, myirother gods, are the ' catile hiches compla in os and of allthes the Epicureans are the orst, horassert, that the god take no careos human assairs, o loo at ali into them it is high time, my rethren, that we hould ake his matte into consideration, forci once the can persuade the eopte to belleve thes things, o must ali starve for ho illsacrifice to ou, heia the can et nothingi iti ha the oon accusesyou Loo ali eard est erda frona the stranger consuli, heres ore, among yourseives, and determine hat a best promote the happines of man kind, an diu own security. V When Jupiteri ad thus spolien the assem-bi run with repeate cries, of thunder, and lighining burn, consume, destroy own illi them in to the pit, o Tartarus, and the giant i Jove,
y6udes re the and thei philosophy shali per ista together: ut at present,no punistiment must be inflicted thes four monilis to come, as ou ali
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This Titie is talen fom the alter par of the illi Piece before us; bere LUCI AN, in imos ingeniores Manner defendue his own Methodis 'riling, Gai is hos Critios Gho blamediim for te ing Orator , Declamation, and Philosophy, tospori in themore plea et Maia os asst Dialogue. He ridicules the Logicians, Lugh at the Epicureans, and diveris himself,ilh the Platoni and Socrusi Disputants. The
IUPITER. A Plague on hos philosophers, wh say that the od Malone et O true felicityl f the kne in ha troubles ea through for man Lind theywouldio callis happy, meret because e have a litti nectar an ambrosia, o place suci implici faith in that lini impostor Homer, ho telis suci stories of urilis above, and allis abo ut things in heaven, heia hecannotio much a se Rhat pati su pon arti, There is heloor uia, clothedwith sire, and shining illi his rays, runs about ali da in his hariot fronaone en d of heaven to the ther, an has no te is ure, a they say, to cratch his ars for is e mould op ut a moment, the ho ses ould shake ossthei bridies, turn ut of the way, and set every thing onire. Then observethe oon, o care fuit me tali es heroound o light opers that re homelate a night rom supper Then again, Apollo, holas taken a heau lassi upon him, is almost stunned illi the nois of thos that are calling ponhim for divinations no heri forceiicio go to Delphi, a litile aster he postsi, Colophon, then, perhaps crosses ' Xanthus, and run a a in his
Colophon. J A cit nea Claros in Ionia, here there was an oracle of Apollo. otter does not, L lieve, mention it though it is taen notice of by Philostratus, Porphyry, and Janilichus.' Xanthus. JQualis ubi libernam Lyciam Xanthique fluenta Deserit, ac delum maternam invisit Apollo. Virg. n. v. l. q. J.
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chario to Claros, Delus, o the aranchidae; hereuer, in mori, his prie stest, aster di in Ling the sacred liquor, ut on his laurei, o moved the tripod bid shina go, wayi must march to delive his oracles, i he has an regar tolli honou and glory of his art notrio mentio the triclis hicli the playhim to tr his potver, mixin lamb' stem and tortois together so that is helias no a mar nose, to meli ut the dissere iace, the ' Lydian il laughhim to scoria. sculapius to has nough o do illi his patienis, meetswith many a dis agreeabie glit, aste, and mella and in mori, is made un-happy himself, by the miseries of others. Nee I spe a of the in is, hoare constanti employed in notarim in Planis, transportin vesteis, and breat hing on the fiet d and mea lows Somnus also, ho goes bout visit ingevery body, and carrie his ream and his oracles a long ithaim. his, and a great deal more, are the god obliged to do for the benefit an happines of man kindri ut thei raro ubi is noth in to mine. I, horam the Lingand ather of them ali, fiat hardihi ps do I go through, and what cares m
i, at waysmpo the walch, looking after Si eves, false s ea rers, and sacrifices, observing hos altar smoah, ha saliors an sic me a re sending up their prayers to me : then, hic licis orstis ali, at ne and the fame timeri mustat te nil the hecatombs at Olympia, and the warrior at Babylon, senda ait toth Getae, and east illi the AEthiopians and after ali, there i no scap- in murmur an complainis. hali immortals lumber o thei thrones aboVe, Ali ut the ever-wakeml ye of Jove. For, ii here is the least neglect Epicurus prono Unces immediate ly that weta ke no care of human assair and letnae tell)OU, is Once me come o be-- , nisi bidi. J An oracle or Apollo, in the territor o Miletus is called from the famil of the pri ests. a The L diau. J Croesus. Nemiis i. i. e. a the strepherd inhabitin that territor must always have been besere H rcules a s hi nil a totay the famous Nemean lion.
T,' immo fati, S. . Se beginning of the second book of the Iliad.
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sieve his, e are in imminent angerri ur temples illi ave no garland s, our cups illi empty, and ur altar cold we halliave no victim si sacrifices, and famine must en scae in the mean time, iand like the captainof the esset, it the rud de in myra and the mariners ali runk, o fast
ti me the thin Ne an have to e Moy ur nectar an ambrosita, 'ith somuch busines siniuriand wantis eis ure, I have no by me, Iano no how many old book of causes, covered illi rus an spider' webs, particulari belween the pro sors of aris and sciences, hiches have ne verbeen able to setilea these the a re alway calling Upon me to decide accusing me of soth an indoleiace, not knowing that the dela is occasione no byneglect, ut by that state os felicit whicli I am suppost to live in for sothe chus to calli perpetua hurr and fatigue. MERCURY.Ι have osten heard them complain, ut neve dared to teli ou oscit butasIoui ave mentioned the assair ourself, I ma Venture to inform o that the are ery angry, and though the are astat to spea Out murmur anil hisper together, accusing o os de lay, hen the ought to e thoroughlysatisfied. IUPITER. What is tole done then, Mercur saall, give them ara earing ore, orput it ortili nexi ea pMERCURY. by no means tetras have it immediate ly. IUPITER. Becit so thei do ou si down, and give ut that whoeve has nycauseri try, must come orth to the Areopagus, Justice stati there appotiat pro per udges to determine . ut Dany one mali hin himself aggrieved by the sentence, he ma appea to me, and I, ill rejudg the cause.' Go ou, m ' aughter, as assessi, to theri venerable od desses, an preside ver
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IUSTICE. Mustricio arti again the es t be turne out once more, o bear the insulis of in rival λIUPITER. Hope et ter things; times are altere noW, and the philosophers have persuaded men to preser ou to Injusticeri speciali the divine Socrates, holias rore ned ou illi the highest prat se, an demonstrate that ou are thechie nood. IUSTICE. And of hat service a his incomtum n me to the oor an himself, Who was condemned by the ' eleven thrown into a goal, an force tos allo violson, evenae fore he had sacrificed his cock o Esculapius p somuch more powermi ere his accus ei s Who philosophi sed in favo ur of my
JUPITER. Philosophyla that time a unkno vn mongst the Vulgar, and there Sere very se virofessor oscit as O Wonder, heres Ore, that they mould lis ien to ' Anytus and Melitus: ut nota it is qui te another hing do noto ou observe horu many cloak8, and lub S, and sat chel there are bour, longbeard on very de With book unde their est arnas, an ali aikini r ou one meet troops O Philosopher in Very stre et, and no a man but is a dis ei ple or a teacher of Virtueri hundred leaVe thei occupations and et thenaseives scrips, an long cloaks, lachen theiriodies, like AEthiop, in the sun frona oblers and lacksmittis, turn extempore philosophers, and , abo ut prat sim g O and Our Viriues the Proverbiays, it is Leasieri or a mani: board a hi prio void Ouching Ood than, a Ne at along, to ei cape meetin a philo pher. JUSTICE. These, ather, are the ver Te, Plea an mos astat os for the rare alia..ways disput inmabotat, and et I ON Othin O me; in ord, the pre-tend o have a great veneration, ut in sae have no regar se me, and will
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no se much as admit me into thei Jouses, here in enem y Injustice, has atready met illi alearly et come. IUPITER.
forgo the way How this cry in and lamentini neve be a fra id, child, his is qui te a different age the Scyrons, and Tityocampti, and Busiris's, and Phalaris's, homJo ruere so a fra id of a re ali dea an dione ;Wis dona no , and the Academ y, and the Portico a re ali in ali, the arelookinisor, and aiking Dyou, ait in impatienti for our arrivat. IUSTICE. You, Mercury, and youini can teli the truth, for o a re osten iththem, both in the Forum, and the Gymnasium 'o i are thei hera id and thei crier, and there re cani est inform me hat the are, and whether itis probabieri cantila amongst them. MERCURY.That 'o certain ly may uirius it ould certaint be in me to decet veyoin the generalit of peopte are reali much improve by philosophy frona a regaresto Xterna appearances, they a least in illi more decency; though, o say the truth, ou ill meet illi man profligate nough, an lwith sonae that are ut half-wise, an half-wickedci hen Philosophy rittoo them in hand a many as ear tity imbibe the tincture hicli siegave, Change thei colour, and eca me perfecti good these a re ali fondos, and ready to receive ou thos e lio, rom the diri and filii the had formeri contracted, could o take in nough of her salutar medicine, were belle than an others, ut stili ea an imperfect stili spolied, like leopards, illi vice an folly and sonae there are, ho ni 'Iouch-ing the esse it was prepared in thought the had done nough ota,
- ouebis, Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu. Eor.
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Mercury, ou servant; ustice, our's. JUSTICE. Your's, mos nobi Pan, thou prince of Satyr so singin Mand dancing, at Athens the triti Narrior too.
The domo treat me qui te so et a the ought to do, considering myservices, in defending them Domi man Barbarians; two or three times year, in deed, they sacrifice a si in king goat o me, honour me illi a litile empi prat se, an seed thenaseives pon the fessi oscit their j est an merrument, however, is sonae diversion to me.
Pau. J Theriodis strepherds, uniers, and countrymen, generali represented Nith horim, and a long beard like a fuyr Ue was,ormipped in Arcadia, here he had an oracle. His suid, ut o What good authorit xv know not, o have fought for the Athenians at the batile OP Marathon, and to have laina great number of Barbarians.