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an converse illi the ancients tome tic kled, illi a flageolet, or sit admir- ingran effeminate fello , in long pelticoais sngin lascivious songs, an dimitating the lewd Nomen the Phaedras, Parthenopes, and Rhodopes of antiqui ty, beatinxti me illi ou kot pon the enches, and ma Lindia ridiculous nolse, very unbeco ming a maia Dyour education When I eardyou frequented suci entertain ments Uno onlyilus hed for, ut a trulν angry ith ou for thus neglectin Plato, Aristolle, an Chrysippus, o sit like those ho ichle thei ears it a Dather; and that o whilst there ares many nobi an delight sui employment. for the ye and ear so many excellent conceris, o many, here the hiarimis playedi in persection, an dabove ait, hilst there is grave traged an chear fui comedy oramus j ou, things orti, o public contest, an universat emulation ou ill standi need, there re, my good friend of a long apology, at east illi very liberalis ind, Dyo mea nota be ut is frona the societ os ali good and
Phaedras, 'ed Theior o Phaedra, and her passio sor Hippolytus, is to wellanownto standri need os an illustration Parthenope asine of the Syrens hom Lilysses si ut his ear against. The a mentioned ad is reporte to have ot rione enough, is herprofession a a courteetan, o bui id one of the famous Egypti an pyramid s. - be a1 p. J Gree κιθαροι. I calicit 'rari', though, as Mont fauco has observed, tris very dissiculi to determine in What the lyre, cithara chelys, psaltery, and hari distered rom achother. r. Burne observes, that the cithara from hichobe Italia Gord chit arra, orauittar, is manifesti derived , was perhaps, as ditarent froin the lyre, as a single hars froni adoublemne. The Greeks ad probably two principat species of stringed instruments, ne, likemur harp, of tuli compasi resting on it base, the other more portabie, and lung vera hesioulder, like oui vivitiar, o the ancient lyre, represented in sculpture.
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But pra teli me, Crato, do ou sin fauit illi ancing, and the stage,
legs andi beard is no pulled ossi In the mea timeri sinceret pit yoti, who are ei ged illi this Bacchanalia frenZy.
Dbligh pd. J his is a literat transsatio of the line in Homer, hicli is whieli is par of the Syren' son in the welfth book of the dyssey. ope has sun thewhole line in his translation, and asae frequently Oes, gives us omethin eis in the oomo it.
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taining, ut profitable to the spectators that it is sesul and instruistive, harmonis es the fouis of the belloiders, charin the glit illi agreeable spectacles, and thera earing illi delight fui ound s, displaying the nited beauties bothi minxand bod that it oes ali his by the assistance of music
thei harmoni Ous orde an conuection, area ut various copios of the rit great ance of thing frona that time the arta ath been ad vanc in g, hic his no arrive a perfection, an is a tength the most ius e-like, Ilcomprehenditan ali harmonious, fir st of things. ' Rhea, e re old, delightin in the ari, fir commande the Cory-hantes in Phrygia, and the Curetes in Crete to ance and siue received no
Rhea Sc. To understand the orce, and tast the ridicule of this passiige, i is necessaryto insorin the reader, is he oesmo know it betare, that accordinuto the naccountable systemo ancient theogony, Rhea, o Cybele, hen me as it child of upiteri Saturn that herhustand might no destro the infant ac on a boria, hici, i seem he had threaten ed reti redi Crete, hen, aiter hein deli vered, he gave lae litit Iupiter to the cate of he friends, orpriesis, the Curetes an Corybantes, ho made a violentinoi se it their lances, laields, and bucklers that Saturn might notaea the child cry. Lucian ahes this opportuni: of laughino at the wholeiory, and telis us that it is there re to ancing alone e re inde bie so tho preservationis the ather of od and men.
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Dali ad vantage rom it for the preservedae son, and Jove ill himselfacknowlege, that to them he wed his deli ver fro in the crueit os an incensed fallier the danced in arms, and stri Ling thei Mordson their hields,see med a it ere, illed illi a martiat an divine fury. Some of thebrave Cretans sterward studi ed his ari, an becam excellent ancers; and these eremo the lox an common eople, ut of the nobi est families, and amongst hos e lio Nere deseruing of the empire. Homer, illi a vi eisto distingui si, an noto disgrace Merion, calis him a d ancer an soriam ous was he in his ari, that nolint his countrymen the Grecians achnoπ- lege his perfections incit, ut his en emi es the Trojans also the experi- enced, o doubi in batile, that skill and agilit whichae had acquired by hi, proficienc in his se sui science the verses, I hink are preti nearly assolio AES, . Nisi a thou ari, the agita hero cries, And kili' in ancinget dispute the priZe; My spear, the destin' passage had it found , Hadix' th active vigou to the grOUnd.
sui pose, e scaped the arro A that e re lao at hi m. I could enumerate severat other heroes h were reno ne for his art it ma lassice to mention onlymeoptolemus, the sonis Achilles, a mos admirabie ancer, hoin vente the amous Pyrrhic ance, o calle fro hi m. When Achilles heard his of his son, it gaveaim more plea ire, the say than whenae resected on his beau ty, and ali his ther ac complissament an perfections. It was iis ance indeed that destroyed an lai levet illi the round, the proud cit os Troya hicli, to that ab , ad rema inedinconquerable. The Lacedaemonians, ullio ere rectione the braves of ali the Grecians,learne thei Caryatic frona Castor and Pollux, this is a species of dance, socalled frona Caryae, a street in Sparta these eopte id very thin in a
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mu&-lihe manner, ought by numbers, music, and a regula motion of the stet the pipe alWays iving the sirst signa o batile: and a they ereledin by music and ancing they tWays conque rex thei yotan men Neretaught tot ance, as et a toright the came tollows, then au sed foris time, and finisae the enga gement in lancea the die always string in themidst, and beatinxti me illi his Mot; hilst they, forming them selves ascit were, into metre, solio Ned acti ther in Vari bus circumvolutions and marchinito different tunes, o metimes ough and warlike, and oon aster toquic an spritet ones, lach a Bacchus an Venus admire. The sensiwhicli the sing in thei dance, is an invitation to Venus and Cupido nil italong ith the in another, o the sing two, contain instructions hos they
Thosedo much the fame lio per forna the ' Hormus this is a dance of the youth an virgins, OVinii a chorus ne by one, lihe a cha in or colatar, froni hic licit ahes iis name. The oung man lead the way, sleppinggracemit along, and with sicli motions as hecis aster Nard to practis in theself the virgin follo s, eachin her seX, Scit ere, O ance illi decen cy an grace so that the hole appear in deed like a chain, here manlyfortitude, and emale modest y areani together. What Homer telis us in his hie id of Achilles concerning l Ariadne and the ance hich Daedalus te her, a uia necessar to rei eat to a reade likeyou, I mali passi ver as ellis the two ancers, eader of the chorus, whom the poet alis tumblers and like Nise hercle says,
It is orti observing, say a commentator on this passage . ilia the Grecian ance is stili performe in his anne in the orienta nations; the outh and a id dance in a ring beginniij rnowly by degrees the music plays a qui cher time, illis last the dance, illi the utinosti vii iness, an toruard the conclusion singas here in a genera chorus. umb G. Greek, κυς, ητη ς the Latin vanitator calis them Taltantes in caput suci asdanc on thei heads Pope culis them tumblers.
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The 3 outhi danters, in a circle bound . And whicli, he telis his, a the o beauti sui partis Vulcan's hield. The Phaeacians, e ma naturali suppose, ere fond of dancing, eing adelicate race of people, and whoclive a lis of luxur an happinest. Homer there re malae. Ulysies particulari admire them. The Thessali an si ad his r in hicli esseem, that the called thei generat sand meat arrior leaders of the anceri and this is prove by thei inscription sin the monuments hich they ai sed in memor of their great me tone of them says, the cit made suci a man Proorchester an another, A the eople alsed his to the memor o Ilation, for his ell-danced
stalliso here observe, that among ali the ancient mysteries, there arenone dithout ances, as Orpheus, Musaeus, and thers, the best dancer of thei time, ho institute them, alway too care o mahe ancing an in- disputabie qualification o ali ho were initiate into them. e must notspea of the orgies, o account of those ho re no initiated; ut every hodyanores, that those ho reveat the mysteries, are sal to havea dancedout of the circle. In Delos, o sacrifices, it is ellinown were eve made Without music
Leaders LGreex, προορχse ρας, iii ancers. his and the ther appellations mean no moreth antlia the Thessalians applied cim used in dancinget militar affairs, and did this ardithe honour semetimes to drais allusion non it but Luciati's bufines here is to make the most of the matter. Dance Greek, E ξορ δεσθαι, extra sacrum chorum saltare. Whence, perhaps, Ne may dei vetur Englisti ord, exorcism; ut, after ali, his is nothing, aso e re observed, ut an allusion though Lucia stem to insinuate that religion istis depend on dancing. His servent eal on his Occalion put me in min os a famous Treatis o the Ar of Angling, norubet ore mea the author, alter affirming thatio an canae honestir good who does no love fishing, prooeed gravet to remarx thatini three Apostles attende our Savi ou to the mounto his transfiguration, and that these three ivere ali sistermen. IIb orchemata. I Trom ορχησις, saltatio, παρ ζημα , says Me situs, ' μιτ ορχη ω Ἀδο
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turning thei head toNard the east salute hina illi a danee silenti throwing thenaseives into certa in posthi res, an imitat in the motions of the divini ty. Such is the adoratio of the Indians, thei chorus, and sacrifice in his anne the propitiate the deit in the orning and in the even-
in every ay. The AEthiopians also ance whilst the fght nor, ill oneo them take an arro out of his hair, for that is his qui ver, hici, theysurround like so many ays, without sirs making use of severat threate ning
An no werare go into India and thiopia, it a be orth our, hi leto ste dore in to the et glibouringa ingdom of AEgypt Here, accordino to the old able, lived the amous Proteus, ho, belleve, as nothing
self into ait hapes an fornas, imitating, by the rapidit of his motions thesaei fines of fire the fluidit os ater, the ercenes of the lion, the spirito the panther, the bending of the trees, and any thing, in mori, he lea sed: but the caught hol of the arvellous, and tol the stor; asci thos thingsh ad reali happened, hicli ere se eli represented by him, though thosethat anceio per forna the ver sanae, for the change them se lues into very forna, and rival Proteus himselfh e have reason to suppos that Empus aalso, ho could thro heriali into fuch a variet os hapes, was likeruise me excellent proficient in his art. Nor must, here passive that ance of the Roman whicli is performed
by the ' Salii for so the cali sonae of thei priests), in honouri Mars, thegod of war, and whicli is most grave an holy. Agreeable to this Roman custo is the able hicli the Bithynians relate of thei Priapus, a warlike deity one of the Titans I belleve, o the r Idae
Protetis. J Here the mas falis Lirlymis, and Luci an may be sal to laugh out his turni AgProteus into a ancing-master plaint me si cannot be in earnest, but it is hope the Proteus so the present age, in consideratio of the many andibine things he has sal on the subject, wil sergive him a laugii or in o the protession. Salii J The Salii were Roman priests, and o called from alio, to ance, fir appotnted
we are tot by Numa thei ossice a to celebrate the rite o Mars illi song and dances the were habite in a stor scarlet castach, having round them a road bell, clasped illibras buckles, o thei head the wore a sortit opper heimet, hor Mord by thei fides, a javeli in thei right hand, and the ancele, o target, in the other. The were inelve in number, and alway chosen froin the patricians.
Idaean alli. Priests of Cybele, ho was,oi stippedin inciunt Ida, called dactyli, mira δακτυλος, a finger, in allusion to thei number, as in thei fir institution there ere but te of them. See Strabo, Pollux, Is Casaubon, and the learned Bryan.
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an Dactyli, vel si illed in militar knowlege, horis Did o have received Mars frona the hand of Juno, hilst he was et a boy though rema rhab lystrong and manly, and o have instructed him in ancing, even es ore hetaughtaim to figlit for this, asinae Naid, he was presente by uno illi a te nil of the spoli, hicli fel to the mare of Mars in batile. I nee no mention to ou the seasts of Bacchus, hicli, ou ellanow, ali consist in ances, the principalis them the ' Cordax the Sicynnis, and the : Emmeleia, were so called froni the Satyrs, pri est o Bacchus, hocin vente thema by these e conquere the Tyrrhenians, Indians, and Lydians, an obligeditiose arithe nations to carry the thiasus. Taheaeed, there re, my most extraordinar friend that ou remot
uiityi impiety, in vili sying this divine and mystic ari, practi sed by somany of the god thenaseives, and dedicated to thei service, and whicli, at the sanae time affords both profit an delight. Whenes consider ford mustonce more recur to the poets), o great an admirer j ourare o Homer, and
Hesiod in particular, Lam astonished to find your opinion o directi opposite
to them, ho prat se his ari above ali hings. When Homer speak of thing the most desi reabie, he mentions seep, love, an harmony, and calis an Cinnalone the irreprehensibi plealare' e bear testimony, o see, to the excellenc of song, hichol Ways ac companies m favourite ari, an expres says that is irreprehensibie, hichoo have dared orand fauit illi and again, in another par of his poena, he says,ll o sonae the powers of blood Nariet Ong, T sonae Meet music, and the charm o song- Most delight fui, indeed, are son grandianc together, the are the siveetestgis of heaven the poetieem to have divided ali hings into Ko paris, arandieace, and in opposition to the forme has contraste these pleasures asthe most delectabie.
Cordax. This as a ga bri sic ance, accompani ex metimes, e re tot d, it lewdand wanton gestures, and belonged properint comedy earne writer o the subject calis it genus ridiculae saltationis in comediis, quae turpiter lumbos spinamque quatiebat approaching, iuppose, preti nearly to the indecenc of ur modern age-dancing the Bacchanalia, ors east o Bacchus, coniti ted principali os various dances.' Si nntis. This Nas a satirica dance, herein the grave and bris Kere intermixta. Emm eia. J his as a grave and solemn dance. y Irreprehen lale. Greek, αμυα ore ορχ ηθμιο. l. N. 636.