The works of Lucian

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player's hen e lows in a narro in pipe a tengili, the question entire lylost in the genera confusion the combatanis ip the siveat frona thei fore-heads, and retire, abusing one another; andi is generali lookedipon asconqueror, ho cania tioudest, and has the most impuden ce the multitude, in the mean time, hora ave noth in eis to do, gaZe at them illiastonishment an admiration for Hown part I alWays considered themas a se of vain empi fellows, and wa no a litile angry at thei hau ingbeardos like myiwn. Whether the public a reap an ad vantage homtheirioisse, o wha good their eloque iace ma do, I cannot say; ut to spe alithe truth, as I live here in a litile cave, hard by I have een them, sonae- times, late in the evening IUSTICE. StOpra moment, Pan is no Mercur haran guing them

Orthian. T Ορθιον, say the lexi cographers, sublata et intenta voce. Carmen Vero Orth, lini dicitur quod voce subtilissima cantatura the Orthiai mode, say the Scholiath, is that, qui aiuaccendendos animos in proelio adhibellatur, hich was made se of to rais the filiis of men in

batile.

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Justice ill herset atten and preside; ill appotiat udges Domin mongst thewhole Atheni an eopten ver judge to have three oboli, and thes number of the ud ges tot in proportion to the crinae those lio, avingleganthei processe die before it a determined in AEacus has order to endi, acta: and i any one mali hin himself ronged by the sentenc here prono hanced, e ma appeal to Jupiter.

like so many VasPS. ATHENIAN. have ou O , rasCal. AN OTHERATHENIAN. Yoia re a lyar. AN OTHER.

Gmbὸr. J In ome of the Grecian couris of judicature, the number of the judges, howere cholani tot was in proportion to the weight of the cause tot decide metimes here were fifty, and somelimes in orave hundred. When causes of great consequence erea beti ted it was customary to cali in ali the udges of ther ouris and ometimes, we are told, the amo uni ed even to fifteen hundred, o two thousand.

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AN OTHER. Bring on m causeirst. A NOTHER. Conae long villain. AN OTHER.Do no throtile me.

Imprimis, Falserimprison ment an Drunkennes sues the Academ for

JUSTICE. Appoint even udges for that cause. MERCURY. Item, a misdem eanor thes Portico against Plealare, for steat in aruaythei admirer, Dionysius. IUSTICE. Five illi enough for that MERCURY. Item Luxur against Viriue, ouchini Aristippus. IUSTICE. Five ill do for that toO.ΜERCURY. Item Glution against Diogenes, o discretion. JUSTICE.

isi φαι. J The disciple of Socrates. Aster the eath of his maiier, e retire totis o uti country, Cyrene, an institute a sedi, calle irom heiace the Cyrenaic his distinguishingcharacteriistic was that he could consorin himself O very place time, an persen, and liketherapolite Paul, hecomerat things to alimen, as Horace says, Omnis Aristippum decuit color et status et res. Ev'r condition habit, and event,

Willi Aristippus suit s. He was, consequently much solio ve an admired. The Jesuits of lalter times, stem toliave adopte the Aristippi an in inas, and succeeded accordingly.

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MERCURY. Item, ainting against ' Pyrrho, for i ny initiis colours. JUSTICE. Nine for that. MERCURY.Would you have the two ne suit triedio against the Rhetorici an pIUSTICE. V ei ad belle take the old ones fir st, an defer them to nother da'. MERCURY. The cause a remearly of the sanae nature illi hos Ne have marked dorunal ready an sit is a poliata laa mouidie determin ed. IUSTICE. see, Mercury, o are sor obliging very bod that applies o ou soletis have them; ut these must e the ni Ones atri resent there rejud ges euough appotnted at ready come, produce them. MERCURY. Rhetoricaring a complain against a certain : Syrian sor male treatinent, and Dialogue also for abuse. IUSTICE. Who is se There is no a me MERCURY. The nam does no signify, e nee oni say the Syria Rhetorician. JUSTICE. These ramontanes havera bustanes in the our of Athens, hei causes stouldie tried on the ther de of the Euphrates; oKever, ut doKnjudges for the two caUse S. MERCURY.

the criminals to uia necessar eXpence.

Ο, Ρ . J The Linous munder of the Sceptic se was a Apollodorus telis us, originalty alainter. In the Gymnasium os Elis a pretervexa very good piece of his doing, represent- in torch-bearers. See Diog. Laert. hing. Greeli λειαιταξιο, desertio ordinis. Here, by a luch expression in ur langu age, eoincidin with the ense, the translation I exm readers ill uot pasi vero extraordinarya circumstance nobserved, is belle than the original. Θ ian. The ingenious method hicli Luci an has here taken to introduce an defendhin self, cannotae sussicienti admired. Academy' si eakin for both fides of the question is a fine strok of indirect satire.

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υ intelligibi phrases, ut o care an miser inste ad of that ros colouri hich sed to mine n his counte nance, he oon re pale, languid, and dii ty, formi ali his songs, and would sit ithout meat o drin tit naidni glir, stud; in sonae non sense or ther, that Academ ha taught him: besides his, hic licis ors than ali, he oes noth in nox but abus and

traduce me. '

rhus hasti the advocate fortarunkennes pleaded her cause an noN, Omost venerable ud ges, Dyo will listen to me it kiiadnes an attention, I hope fuit to prove thates have done her no injury for sae hersei de bauched his Polemon, a nobi an ingenuous Oxath, and naturali Heli aD sected to me, eiged pon him in his earli est years, and with the assistance of hera an d-maid leas ure, corrupted his ind, and ted hi in to avern and brotheis, ill he had lost ali sense of shame What me se id in heriwn defence, may as eli sui me he was aiking night and da through theci ty, aloeays iste ning to sonae dille or ther, and neve sober, to the disi grace of his familJ , a laugh in stocli to the whole o n, and ever strangerincit hen e came, I appened o be, asci osten am, discoursing ithsonae of m frientis; alii stae madem violentioisse, and roaring, and endea-voured a much a he could to interruptiu lecture, ut perceiving that eloo no notice of him, by degrees, as j et he was carce recovered Domitis drunken fit, he gre in oberri ur conversation ad suci an effect pon

the rebel a tengili came entiret ove to me no a sile telis ou ei thersorcedis even invitexto it, ut of his Kn accord, and convince that t

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ing counten ance, that courtegan 's rest, illi ali iis meretrici ous ornamenis,are proo enough against her; illi hos me seduce m lover, the oncewis and ober ' Dionysius thea cause o just no determined, ut toonearly resembles minera consider illi in Ourselves hicli is most eligibi e to vallo in the mire os luxur an intemperance, like so an Mine, illi out a thought of any thing greati nobi eri or preferring the good an use fui, tothe leasant an agreeabie, to a like reemen and philosophers neverd reading ain and amictio as viis no tot surmo uia ted nor placing like faves, ou happines in fig and hone : theserare the bait siue throws ut toallure the wea an id te, representing tot an labour, a sumeth in fright- fui an disgusting and then it was that he persuade hi in tocili ake me ostri

Lady. J r. ποδε ιλη Poecile. The portico here Zeno aught the Stoic philosophy, was called Ποικιλη Poecile, o various sto the variet os curious pictures hicli it contained, drawn by the greatest master in Greece.

' Diovistis. A famous disciple of Zeno's. His recorded of him, that labourinisor a longii me unde a dreadfui di sorde in his eyes, he renounced the Stoic doctrine, and o far apostati sed

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and deserves, there re tot punished for her impiet hea me oes notnaean orans Ner forter self, ut has ire Epicurus to lea forter in sicli contem p does me hold the eat of judgment: ut assi her, I intreat ou, what sae hin ks Hercules, and our Theseus ould have been i the had sed frona labour, and follo ed the campi pleas ure the arth ad thenbeen fulli nothinibu injustice and oppression This is alles stiali observet you, a Pana no land of long speeches, though, i me thought proper, t enter into a dispute illi me, I could oon ste 3 ou ho litile me has to

Change the water ou Epicurus, a spea in de lanceis our client,

Pleas ure.

EPICURUS. mali not etain ou, Jud ges, with a long speech, nor haveri occasionsor many arguments is Pleas ure has in realit made se of any oi sons orincan ration to seduce an betra this a me Dionysius, et heri condemnedas an enchan trest, an punissaei accordingly but is, on the otheria nil afre man, in a re city, dis gusted at the fournest of the Portico, and findingilia felicity, hic licit promised, ni an id te preten ce, mould qui it crooked pallis, and labyrinths of argument, and shake is it chains, mouid con si de man, o as a stoc o sione, labour ascit reali is, an evit, an plea-sus ascit always mustae, Neet an agreeable must suci a man, ecause just escaped rom a sat p-wrechae ould sinim into the haven, e forced into incessant toti, and give ut a victim to des pati , henae ne for refuge tot he arm si Pleasure, like a suppliant a the altari mercn or mould he labour perpetuali in se archis that great an celebrate object viriue, and spen a hole lis o miser an sorro here, in opes of happines hereaDter could an man determine more properi thalli did, ho though hewas et acqua in ted illi ali the Stoic doctrines, and achno leged that what was honest, could alone e good; et found that labour as a realculi, and made choice of that hicli experience aught him a the est. He

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He perceived moreover, that hos Who aike so much abo ut patience and long- suffer in g, ere, in private fond of Pleasi re and hori ever the mi hiboast abroad os temperance an sortitude, Ouid indulge thenaseives in lux ury at home that he the were found a litile remisse, in no adherinst tothei tenets, the would luit at the disco very though the could ut illsupport his tantali sing punishment and liene ver they ad an opportuni tyo violat ing the lares in secret, and without ear o Punishment took own fuit draughts of sensuali ty Is, there fore, the could procure the ring of Gyges, o the et me of ' Orcus, o make them invisibi e mali nodoubi ut they ould allii adiet to labo ur, and one aster another, follo pleaire, a Dionysius didie fore them, lio, for a long time satiered himself, that thei lectu res and disputations ould ei service to im: illscknes an dia in came pon him, and theniundinet, experierace, that the Portico and his ea fra me dii no agree eli Ogether, gave credit omne rat hertha the ther; egan to feel that he was a mortal, andi ad a mortal 'siodi he resolved there re, o to reat i like a statue, ein weli convinced

ring by turning a certain par of Whicli up ards, e could render hiin seli invisibi e Is thereader ould wim to know ho he came by the ring, and what se e made, it Presera inito the hir book of Tully' Ossices, here e ill find the whole romunt i stoi told from Plato by the Roman orator, with his philosophica reflections pones t. Oreus. Alludi nito that passage in the fifth book of the Iliad, here Minerva, - totide her heau 'ni vis age, spread Blac Orcus helmet 'errae radian head See Pope' Hom. l. b. v. l. 236. As very thing that goes into the arcem pirem Pluto, or Orcus, di sappears, and is scen nomoreo the Greeks rom henc horro e this figurative expressiona o putia Orcus, o Pluto's helmet, that is to say, totecome invisibie.

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I mould inevitabi have conquered, i I could have gonein illi myquestions in the thir figure of the in demonstrabies. JUSTICE. Whicli has gained the cause p

Lappea to Iupiter.

' , demonstrabtis. J Modi indemonstrabiles appellantur, says Apuleius, non quod demonstrari nequerunt, sed quod tam simplices tamque mami sesti sunt, ut demonstratione non egeant-Theyare called indemonstrabie, o hecause the cannot be demonstrated, ut because the are soplain and simple, that the do no standri nee o an demonstration. his is bout a good an illustratio of the word, a serjeant ite' in the Reerui ting mcer Demonstratio DomDaemon the fallier sales.'