The works of Lucian

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who was himself the parasite os meleus ' ' Euripides, besides, as ouvery wellanow, a parasite o Archelaus to the da of his dea th, asa Anaxarchus was to Alexander a io Aristolle, touched tu lightly thisari, sae didis Ill the est Philosophers, there fore, as I ustis o observ-

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An excellent tria o stili ou have propo sed, and I cannota elim ilinguomyself, hei th in os a parasite an a philosophe thus compare to-gether.

Nelatis. J Concerning this Neleus e have ver litti information to e depended on, though he is sighil mentione by Athenaeus He was, probably, oKever sonae man offastilon and consequencerat that time, illi horai Aristoxenus as intimatet conne fled. - diripides. J his amous tragedian, ascit is ellanown, an recorde by ali his lographers, est his native country, probably on account of som ill reatinent froni his rivals and spent the lalter par of his life at the our of Archelaus, in Do Macedon, ho loade hi m illi favours, and treat exhina illi ait the respect due totis character an abilities this as alassicient seundation sor Luci an to cali hi in a parasite, a name hicli, notWithstanding, hemight probabi very litile deserve. Anaxarchus. A philosopher of Abdera, and sol lower os Democritus. He live inti relywith Alexander the Great, and Bourished abolit the hundred and tentii olympiad. 7 uchia esse. Aristolle, Dys Lucian, ni stim med the surisce of this ari, as e did

illi regat esto any thers by hicli e means, e mansuppose, O insinuate that this great writer trealed alter but superficiat ly, and neve wen to theiottom of them. of his abstrusephilosophy, have certaint enough, hecause is he hadisi more, he would ni have been more tedious: ut lien, turn to his rhetoric, tragedy, c. e Wissi, perhaps, illi Lucian,

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I M . To stomyour admiration, an convince yo that it is no jesting matter, let ustu sor a momen stippos Word was ustio irought, that the enemyli ad invade this country that e could n longe suffer hi to lay asteoli lands, but e re unde the immediate necessit of aking up arnas againsthim; that out commander had stim mone ali to the sield Who ruere of age tofght, and among the est, the Philosophers, rhetoricians, an parasites e re gathered together : rst, then, et u se them naked for the mustae strippedae re the pucdown thei arnas observe the me one by one and examine theiriodies ou illiunx me of them pale, hin, an emacia ted,

to imagine, that suci poo iuretches a thes could everae fit for a close en-ga gement, or be able to endure the fatigue and bust te of a wari ut noru, on the otheriand turn ou eyes to Nard the Parasite, and mar his appear-ancae observe What a bod he has, and what a colour, noti lac like a fave, nor hi te like a oman, ut os a fine sanguine complexion, an a counte-

But Rhy nee we orna conjectures bout liat e may asil prove by x- ample to say the truth, never ould our orator o philosopher ventureo the ouisi de of the alis, or is the were ver force into an engagement, the were ure to qui thei rank and run Way.

passage in an no extant.

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and Demosthenes, ho ere so much braver, ho ere alWays abusing

Philip and stirring p the eopte against in in thei harangues, halmight ad di they perform against hina heia the wariegan Hyperides and Lycurgus neverio much as dared tolut thei head out beyon the itywalis, but sculked belli nythem, and during the siege, contente thenaseives with mahin litti speeches an decrees against ina; hiis their great

Boeotia, before the batile egan thre down his siteld, and fled. Thisyo must have heard ascit is universali known noti Athenians only but by the Thracians and Scythians, hos barbarians frona hom his cois ard

These, Tychiades, though the are perpetuali talkin about sortitude, and hackneying the nam os viriue, a re more timid and oKardi even than Our orator who evera ear of a philosophe dying in batiles the eith et neve mugiit at ali or is the did, too the rst opportuni tyrio run Way. Antisthenes, Diogenes, Crates, Zeno, Plato, schines, Aristolle, and the

whole tribe of them, neve so much a faman engagement. The wis Socrates alone venture to a batile, ut a glad to et reat rom Parnethe tolli palaestram Taurea a thought it much plealanter and more polite o divert himself,it the ounymen, and throw out his est an sarcatas, hanto figlit,ith the Spartan S.

Leador. Demosthenes.' Parnetbe. J Socrates, in spite o What is here roundi asserteda Luciati's Parasite, as noco ard; ut accordin to lutarch's testimony, alway bellave weli in batile, o eli, in-deed that an honourable re ard was assignedri hi in by the generat, hicli e decline in fa-vour of his men Alcibiades. illi regari to the aisai here allude to Luci an has inis representedit for a Plutarchaelis us, in his tractioncerning the daemonis Socrates, a thearna camerio a Way that was divide into tWo, Socrates made a stand an advi sed hos that were ithaim nota take the path the were goin into, long the mountain Parne, ut theother, by the way called Retiste, forsueti, Didae to them, a the daemon' ad vice most of them, oKever, persisted in their Kn opinion, ere me by a part of horsemen, and ali cutoff. Socrates, and those ho sol lowed him, o sese home. This, urely, a prudence, an no coWardice. e must not alWays depend on m friendLucian's veracitae.

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meneUS.

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particular occasion S.

Again, after jacha fought in single conabat illi Hector the i edhim, he telis us, to the divine Agamemnon, here he was e Narded by supping illi the Ling but Nestor and Idomeneus, as e inform us, ad thathonour every ay. Nestor, in deed, a the rst O roya parasites, and n derstoo the ari belle than any of them, a ving praeti sed ille re ruit hi Caeneus and Hexadius, nor id he qui it, ill after the de ath of AEa

memnon.

Liabis. J See Homer' Iliad book vii l. 3ia. Caeneus. This alludes o Nestor' speech in the fissi book of the Iliad Whereae talk of his old acquaintance, Lives there a chie to match Pirithous fame, Dryas the bold, o Caeneus deathles naine. Theseus an Polyphron are likexvise recorded. but o mention is there made o Hexadius.

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' - As in fate and love weboin, Ah, suffer that myiones may rest illi thine; Together have e liv'd togetherared, One hous receiv 'dis, and one table sed . Again, hen he went aWay, Me Peleus cherim' long and bade meae, What Phave prov'd, a minister to thee. That is, his parasite is he had meant that atroclus inas his friend hewould o have calle hi minister, o Patrocius, e now, was a Dee manu hom the could e callisinisters, ut those ho ere ei ther naves nor friends, and consequently musti parasites p ou ill observe too thathe does no honou Idomeneus, though he was the se of Jupiter, illi theepithetis Mars- like, ut his parasite Meriones Again, ha thin yo of Aristogiton, heloo plebeian who, a Thucydides teli us was the parasite o Hermodius, an his love also, o parasites mus love those ho maintain them; his man we now defende Athens hen roan in under tyrann and oppression, an restore her freedom an in dependen cy thebraeten statues of him an his dearly belove remain to this da in the mar-ket-placeu pleas to observe, that ait thes brave men ere parasites. How oestur parasite bellave in the batiles does e no ali ys, besore

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Tu PARASITE.

manner sonae in fit ting on thei helmeis, ther preparing thei breast plates,others in renabi in for the event of the batile he with a chearful colinteis nance employs it in makin a good eat, and the moment e go est ut,

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quer, erat Nays frequenis, and is the great ornamen and conductor of them. In the palaestra, hat orator o philos pher an e compare ruithraim forsa ape and beaut1 , hici, of them is no rathema dis grate to the gymnasium xv liene verrae appear incit Isine of them meet a iid beast in the desari, he is righten diuti his it at him Whilst ou parasite sustain his attachwith the greatest eas and indisfcrenc : by the frequent vie of his adversaryon table , he has leariae Ito despis him no sta nor horridioa affrightgour herou for is the boar pheis his ieeth against him, he in re turn, heis his te eth against the boar a to hares, he is sonderi running after themthan the dog them se lues atra east, hether eat in or est ing, horis ableto contend with in who an o eli lateriain the company , he who issor ver singi rg and cui ting okes, o the oo creature hociles down in his mort cloak, ne ver miles, ut looks pon the round with a melancholycolanten ance, asci he came to a funera instea of aianquet a philosopher

But, o passive these atters letis comerat once to the lis of the parasite, and compare it illi theirs. In the farst place then, he has an ut ter contemptos ali fame and glory, and neve cares liat peopte th in of hima no 3 our orator and philosophers, ne an ali of them, a re fond of both, and what is orse, o mone to ; hilst the parasite valuescit no more than thesandi pon the ea-more, and thin k it a baxas ire. Our rhetoricians, and what is more hameli, those lio cali them sel Ve philosophers, are so attache to thei interest, that amongst them, as to the orators, Pshallia ke no notice of them, sonae in the ouris of judicatur have taken bribes,other exad mone frona thei pupiis, thers ithout a blum, ill ast a stipendis a Linisor living ith him. Yo ma se many an id felloora nabling about, and leti in himself ut like Indian and Scythian laves, nor is e manae icio K that he receives ages besides ali his, ou illsinii them subject to melancholy to anger, en vy, to passion S, appetite S, and destres of every ki nil ut the paralite is re frona alici hecis neve an gry, sirst, ecauserae cantea mis fortunes, and secondly because there is obodywhomae cani angry ith; flat an timeae is a litile umed his resent-

ab . J The wild-boa was a favourite dissi a the tables of the great: the parasite, there- fore, is no afraid of meet invinith his old acquaintance.' A dox. J righten.d a the ho water, planiing, Meating, and in mori, as e say, qui te out of his element.

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ment produces nothing arm nor gloomy, ut ather excites mirili and laughter he put thos in a good humo ur illi, hom e converses, and is, himself, neve melancholy, ascit is the peculiar ad vantage of his profession, that nothing an make him neasy for he has laeither state, o hou se nor servant, nor,ila, nor Child ren the lose of hicli, and the a re ali peris habie, must deepi affect the possessor of thema ut he is no fond of lory, orriches, o any of thos thing that are so univesali admired. TYCHIADES. But perhaps, Simo, an o victu ais may no and then assed hi in alitile.

Yo have orgot m Diend that he who an is vi fluat is no parasite: heris no a brave man whose braver is departe frona hina, nor is hela iseman who is deprived of wis donari ou inquir is bout him horis a parasite, andio about him horis non ea no is the brave man sint brave hi lithecis exercisin his bravery, and the prudent man hi istae is prael isng prudence, in like manner, he ni is a parasite horis lactuali Deding, and is hecis no se, e are talking no about him, ut about semebod else. TYCHIADES. I he parasite then, o thin k, must alWays have plenty.

the would notae armed illi, is the wer no afra id ; mahing their sorsas fas a possibi for ear of thieves: hil our parasite just sh ut his, and that caret essty, o Lee the win out be there ver so much noi se in thenight, hecis no more move than f there a nomois at ali anxi he walhsthrough a desert he oes ithout a Mord, orae is ahaidis nothing but man a philosopher have I seen, armed illi spears and arrows, here thereis noth indito ear the carr clubs illi them even hen the go in to thebath, o to in ner: o neverane a parasite accuse of an affluit, rape, adultery, or an crime of that Lind he neve huris an body ut himself:b utras to orator an philosophers, e nolint Eno of a thousand crimes

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sor, as a sol die is contemptibi e Ivithou arnas, a garment Without Purple, oro hors rei thout his trappings, even o oes a great man without a parasite seem o no rank or estimation. The parasite et off the ricli man, ut thericli an nover et off the parasite : it is no dis grace, as ou acknori lege fortite alter o live pota the formor, a the oortio ut dependis pon the ricli and to the forme the dependent si ight y use fui, not only becauseae hews him olf, ut ecause frona the attenda iace of the ne is derived the happines of the ther: o be to thos e lio attac the patron, When his parasite stand by him; and who ill attemptu pol so the an ho has alNays a

oti. Alludin to the deallis of S rates and Empedocles.