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sed by the parasite, ut is, at theriam time, save Dona the greatos dan-ger si him the parasite, frona his eat an attachment, runs very azardfor his patron, nolint talies care e mali neve cat by himself, ut evenchuses to eat withaim a the peril of his life .
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The Moanta res aristag rom the public g3mnasio Exercise prosed in recce, audihe Inconveniences sometimes attendantis them, are here se fori in il est audet Iertaining Dialogue. LUCI AN, in the Personis A NACHARs Is the Scythian, lare ebs, tit it grea good umorer, at the obvisus Absurdities, and ridiculous Circumsances hic somelimes accompante them : hiis the Lamive defenduehis oetun Statutes and usonis, it a Marmi an Seriousios uitabis to the occason. The contra ed Chara Iers of the Grecian, ais Scythian are elis
vertinet thenaseives in his manne ρ Some of them a re loche clos to-gether, and trippin up ne nother' heeis, o me rithin and wisting, rolliniin the had, and egrina in thenaseive like so many ogs: henthe fit undrested Ι a them strokin and ano inting one an Other, aspeaceabi a Could e then, ali on a sudden, heaven no soli orwhere re, ut ting, and listing thei head together, like ams. Loo there,one of them has thrown his antagonistis the ground he willio suffer hi mi rise, ut get upon, an Leeps him down illi his knees, and with his hand at his throat, i going to suffocate him, hilst the ther lay holdin his sioulder, as is beseech in that he would o throtile hi m. Themildoes notaeep them alit clea ner, forcit is Mon rei ped is, and the are co-vcred illi sive a and diri. I cannot heli laugh in to se them si out ofone nother' hand like eis. Yon de are ther in the ope air, illi adeei sand unde them, hicii the are a Ling u like so many chichen, and prinkling ach other With, I suppos that the may lay the faster hold, a the and akes orthe lipperines of theminiment, an mahes them standfirmerin the ground andio they gorio it an and oot one oor creature stem asci he a spitiing ut ali his ieeth, his mouit isto fuit os sandand
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another, mean tota an injury, Or et rom anger an res eniment: many
This place is calle the ' Gymnasium, and is sacre to Apollo the Lycian Observe his statue theae ad reclining on his right hand with a boruin his est, represent the deity a rising rom long abour : illi regar tolli exercises, hat ou observe in the had there, and likewis ora the and , ει cali resti ing when the stand pright, and attac one nother, e
AI mifar The acinaces, o scymitar of the Scythians, a thei favourite eapon, whicli the always ore both in peace and war inas even realed illi Ome degre os adoration, and wormippe by them See Lucian's Toxaris, and the note hipon it. - mnasum. The gymnasium, o palaema, a the place here ali the public exercises were performed divi d into severa paris, hicli are ali accurate' and minutet described by Pausanias, Vitruvius, Potier, and Other riters. term
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term it the pancratium ' have ille vise the sporis, lachris toxing, quoi is, and ea ping, sor every one of hicli, lay oKn certain reNards, whicli the conqueror is ent illed to. AN ACHARSIS. And what are theb H
A the Olympi games, ana olive croWn, o garland at the Isthmianisone os pine at the Nemean, ne os parse ; at the Pythia n, apples stomthe trees sacred to Apollo; and with us, at thes Panathenaica, olives romthe re o Minerva. What o ou naile id ou thin our priZes verys mali, I supposse.
AN ACHARSIS. no; our re ard a re certaini most magnificent, and suci a must stir
Boxiet, The curious reade Will meet illi a porticular account of ali the ancient gymnasti sporis, in three pieces ritieni Mons urette, an printed in the secon volumeo Memoire de Literatur dea' Academi Royale de Inscriptions , c. Oh . The rit re ard besto; 'edispon the conqueror in the Olympic ames asin hap-let, or crown compose of the branches of ild olive, to en hance the value of hicli, it aspretended that the tre frOm heiace the were taxen was rought to Olympia b Hercules, si omibe countryos the Hyperboreans, and withai, that it was indicat exto the Eleans by the
Delphie or cle See Vest' Diuertationi the Olympie ames.
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Youano litile at present, Pteli ou of Our manners; by and by ouwili hin belle of them : hen o come to the amembly, and se sichnumbers of peopte atherei together, and the amphitheatre silled illi somany thous and spectators, the combatanis cro ne d With shout os applause, and the conqueror equali ed in honou and glor to the god s. AN ACHARSIS. That, nore, to me appear the mos uia fortunate circumstance of ali tostasse se many hardstips, nolle fore a se jud ges only, ut in the glit osso many eople, ho rare eye-witia esses of their misery, and compliment them so hight y heia the are te edita at ver ve in and half-choahed by thei adversaries this it scenas is the lappines of victor; NON, amongsi us Scythians, i any one beat in citi Zen thro s him do via, ortear his cloath ost his ach, he is severet y punissae by ur et ters evenwhen there a re ver so se Nitia esses, an no in large and pactous theatres, sue as ou aik of at 3 our Isthmians and Olympi cs. pity the combatanismost sinceret on account of thei sufferings, and as o ou spe nators, composed, as ou sty, of the firsticopte in the state, ho frequent these assem biles, Pwonderio a litile ho the can neglect their own assair to thro Naway thei time on such hings a these, nor ori understand what lea scire the canind in see in men beat in g, qtaeeZing, and earing one an Other.
Is his a the eas an o our public games, o Nould then se horu se land agi deable the areri ou anno by description forna any de of the lea scire hic licit ould give o to stram id si a number of spectators, and ob serve the coharage of the men the ea ut of thei fornas, heir stren th and agi liry thei stili and bravery their unconque rabie spitit, an die ver-cea singdestrem fame an vidior Pam Ure, Dyota Kere orae an ye- vitia esse fit, there Nouldie no end of Our acclamations and applause. AN ACHARSIS. Rather say, y friend of ridicule and censure for to teli ou the truth, Pthin alit hos might vir lues, ou aik of that strength, stili, and spirit, is ni thrown a a for nothing, hen mei ther our Counir is in ano eryoti land laid aste, nor our frien d injured nor aTroia ted the comba tants, there re, are, a S O say, Person O the first rank, more se bis stre
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beauti ut bodies in the diri, o ge a se apples, o a branch of olive for I
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Even these ou illiso thin s tristin and inconsiderabie, hen ou come rightly to under stand wha I ustio mentioned for theserare in consequence of the sanae plan, and hould e considere a so many mali pari go that great contention, and that nobi crown hic hes spok of I have wandereddanoru notio froni the main subjest, and go into ur Isthmian,
Olympic, and Nemaean games; ut a Ne remo at ei ire, and yo aredesirous of hearing me, e illiu bach, Dyo please, to the reat principi e that common and universa tria of kill Whicli, asci observe to oti, ali his is intended to rais and promote. AN ACHARSIS.It wouldie eiter, I hin k, o do so I siali then, perhaps, earn tolaug no longe a those horare so happy in thei crowns os olive and pars-le ; ut, Dyo please, e will retire into that arbour, and stat urseives ontheaench, here e mali e removexa litti Dona the notis of the combatanis, and the mouis of the spectators besides, o teli yo the truth, I cannot wellaea theraeat of the sun whicli stri hes fuit pon myraead, and have est at at home, on purpos that I might O appear a a fo-
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re igne amongst Iou at this time of the ear What ou cal the dog-star burias P very thing, and mahes themi ho an dry, and the meridian injust ove ou head render theaea intolerable Iam surpri sed there re, that ou, horare an id man, stem ei thera sineat a I do, nor fee any inconvenience rom it, neve looking about so made, ut exposing ourself
thus to the sun. so Lo N. Thola ridiculous labours, Dyou cali hem, Anacharsis, ou constant oll-
infinitet oblige to ou in his case Icilial conceat nothing, ut standingui in the great assembly, es haveai vera ou, O Athenians, ill I say tot hem, a bod of laius, hi chri deemed good and salutary, ut his stranget potiatindito 3 ou), who, though a Scythian is a mani theaighest sense
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who have preserve loliis nobi an most ancient city by your salutar laxus, many age ; or 3 ou above ali great Solon, ho norit so eli liat willi est e stablissi and promoterit happines an prosperit i ut, as a legi Llator I cili obey ou even in hisci an is an thing ou ad vance appears wrong, Venture to contradict, ni tha I may be belle instructed by ou. Verare o go in to the hade, here the in can o longe anno Us, an liliis cootione ill assor us a pleas an seat. Begin there re, and informnae, hy ou so early inure our Oun men to labour, o it happens that ollin in the niud mahes mei good, and wh du and diri mould in creas honora an virtuo; this is hales ould rst is to know, and instruet me in ther poliat after ards, ach incit Prope Place; ni remem ber, I bes ech you that ou are conversia With an ignorant Barbarian. mention his that ou may be pia in and intelligit te in Our disco arse, nil, ab ove ait, o too long, est,hilst you are deli vering one pari, I hould for
off though f ha I say is no foret gn to the pur posse, o may indulge mea litile in potnt of time, for thus it is ur customo ad in the Areopagus;
hen a cause comes on there of murther orire, the parties havera right tospeah, the plaintiss and defendant, ach in thei turn ei ther thenaseives, or by their orator lio ple ad for them. A long a the confine thenaseive to the mat-ter in hand the jud ges isten illi silence and attention; ut i any of themus her in thei delance ith a long prooemium in favo ur of their lienis, Crattemptrio excite compassion or sti up the re seniment of the Udience, sthe fons of rhetori are aptato do the ' crier immediatet steps forti in to the
Drus Ue. J Anacharsis laugiis at the vanit of the Athenian S, Whicli, after ali, was a vanit no peculiar to thenaseives, for the AEgyptians, Phrygians, Scythians, an many thernations ancied themselves tot theirst race of mankiad, a the Arcadians Oasted that theywere προσεληνοι, or, e re the oona in like manne the Athenians ave ut that the were produce at the se me time, illi the sun and assume the pompo us nam Of-υ χθονες, person sproducediu of the a me soli that the inhabit, as it was a vulgar opinion, that in thelegi nning of the worid men pran up like planis froin thei mollier arth the Athenians calle them selves also, allud in to this opinion, τεττιγες, or grassi oppers, and ore grasshoppers of oldin thei hair, to signis the antiquit of their ace, ecause thos insects e re belleve tote xe nerat ediu of the ground .
The ordier. J his hec upon the pratin counset must have been o infinite service, and contributed greatly toward stlortening a tedious law-suit. Ho extremel uselut Nould an s. sice of this Lindie in Ou couris of judicature l
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middie of the astembly, and command silence, neve suffering them to play the ool e re the udges, o obscure or puZZle the causet a multiplici tyos ords, ut obliging them to expla in the aked fael, and that only. Andhere, Anacharsis, in like manner, I constitute an appotnt ou an Areopagite : ear me a counset in his cause, an imposse silencein me hen outhin I play the orator, and endeavoUr o deceive ou butatve me leave togo on, Whilst Ladhere to the oint in question . e re notio in the heato the sun so that a litile longe conversation ill neve hurtis, the laad isthic roundis, and we have nothing et se to do. AN ACHARSIS. True, Solon, I am greatly oblige to 3 ou for thus acquaint in me ithyour anne os determining causes in the Areopagus, where the hadges decides equitabi : ut proceed I accepi the Onourable ossice o have conferredin me, and mali act accordingly.soLON. I, ill irst, then, aequa in t yo with the method we ahe in regard to thecit and iis inhabitanis the forme is considered by us, no meret a consistin os alis, temples, harsse, an diuit lings, but the wholeras a firm and immovable Ody, fra me for the reception and securi ty of the citi gens, in whom alone e place allisur strength, and wh are to preside ver, overnand direct every thing, a the oui presides ver the body Ne take care, theres ore, of the ity, adoria in it illi nobi edifices illi in and securingiti stron bulwarks rom ithout but ou chie concern is the citi Zens thenaseives, o preserve them in strengthioth of min and Ody that theymay be able to uard the common ealth, and keep it re an happy, in war an in eace. For his purpose, e Commi ou child re first to thecare of mothers, nurses, and school-mallers, o instruct them properi in thei rearly yearsu ut a soon a the begina tander stand what is right and good, when fear, hame, and emulation pring u in thei miniis, e the employthem in studies of a different kind, an inure theiriodies o labouri exercises that, ill in creas thei strengili and vigour : e domo rest content illi ilia power of min or Ody hicli natur has endowed them illi, ut en deavou to improve it l, education, hicli render the good qualities thata retoria illi us more conspicuous, and changes the ad into bet ter fol-lowing the ex ample of the lius bani man who laetters and hedges round the