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In this litile Tris Luc IAM augh a the wholerator of the Paga Heli, as relaled by the Poets, and belleoed by the Multitude together it man of the ridiculous C lom and Ceremontes sed a Funerati, by eopte os ali Nations There arefme goo iroles of Humore in severa Paris os t. I is eli North of ur observation to rem a rh hat strange hing the generalit of man k in do and say illi regar to mourning both tho se who suffer, and those ho condole aow readfui and lamentable very thingappears though, b Pluto and Proserpine, I belleve non of them reatly knowwhether hali appens is the belle o the worse, for those ho the thus pit an lament : ut the grieve according tota ted modes and ornas, and when a mala dies, thus the always et I ould rs examine, there re, What thei opinio concerni nideat licis, o ill al the superfluous pominandparade attendiniitae bes accounted for. The great multitude, homo he wis and earn excal the mobilit3 , holiave an implici faith in Homer, Hesiod, and the fabulous writers belleve that there is beneath the arth, a place calle Hades o Heli, deep, da rh, and paci ous, here lae sun ne ver enters, and et weano notio , so enlightened, a that ali hings incit may be fati ly seen. In his cavernrei gns the brother of Jupiter, urna med Pluto, for soci ascinior med by one stilled in thos mattei s), and o called, e cause heris ' ricli in ead men hereae lives, and gives a s to his o naingdom, O to im it seems, was allotted the empire of the ead, hona' hold in indissolubie chains, neverpermittin them to return to artii, Ut On O me particular occasions, and whic have ver seldom appene frona the earli est period of time to this lay the whole region is surro unded by rivers, hici excite terror by their very ames, sucti asa Cocytus, Periphlegethon, and the est of thema then
Coestus. Iaro Κωκυτος, lamentation.
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there is the lahe Acheron that receives the ne inhabitanis, and whichcannoti pasi d Without a ferry-man, o dee to go through on Dot, an dio wide to Mim ver even the dea d bird cannot si sociar A the gate, whicli is os adamant, sis acus the king' brother' son, ho guard it; and ne artim stand thea three-headediog, a most fierce beast, hoMelcomesthe uest with a mili and placid cohante nance, ut is the endeavour toesta pe, ahes a most readsul hori ling. Aster passing this lake, the, a re received into a large mea do , plante With asphodelus, and rin the liquoris oblivion, hicli destroy the memory, and is herclare calle it Lethe so Keare old by tho se ho returne frona therace, Alcestes, Protesilaus, Thesalus, Theseus the son o AEgeus, and Homer' Ulysies, most grave an creditablewitnesctes, and who, I suppose, ne ver drank of that a me in ater, o theycould notio et have remembere it here, the teli us Pluto an Proserpine rei gn, and gover allo hings; illi them exercise dominio also, a large multitude of Furies, Terror S, and Punishmenis, illi , Mercur at theirhead thoughae is no at way amongst them AS magistrates, satraps, orjudges, sit Minos and Rhadmanthus, wo Cretans, and sons os opiter; these, hen theyae together acie good an honest men, in octave lived virtuoiasy sen them osscio stablim a colon in the Elysian felds, herethe live a lis os oy and appinesis Ora the ther and when the lay holdin the wic ked they deli ver them ove to the Furies tot punished forthei iniquities, in the region of sorro there the suffer most grievous ;
A ,hron. J Froin the Greeli, hicli signities sine gaudio, or olest. See Virg. Georg. i. aud ille fixili book of the aeneid. E a. tis. Soni Jupiter and Egina, he a Ling of Oenopia, hic he called gina, inhonour of his mollier he was o reno vned sor equit that the poets thought propero re ardhim by reserving a placessor him etKeen Minos and Rhadamanthus, the two clites justices of heli. Three-hraded ZM. J Cerberus. L.fhh. J hicli in ree signifies oblivion. The properties attributexto his ater, fur-nished a late ingenious writer, hom e cannot susticienti lament, illi the subject of his ex. collent di amati satire. 11 3 reuo. Whose busines it was to conduct the departed mortal to the hades leave theminere, and immediat et Ieturn to earth for another argo. His stay theresere, a Lucia ob serves, could beaut stior amongst them.
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great numbers in 'in of R id ille state, ander long the me ad rei thou bodies, mades that on the least ouch, vanis like molieci hcse receive a sorti nourishment frona ora libations and the offering whicli, leave onthei graves, o that is the oo spirit has no frien is o relations esse boveground heiand a hance of sta rvin in the region belo N. The vult, atare firmi y persuaded that i any of thei Lindi ei die, it is heir ut 3 to puta piece of money in to their mouit, o pay the ferry-man or his passage, notdetermining at the a me time, halio in il bestias there, hether a fat-thingi Attica, or gina, o Macedonia illi most current nor reflectaing, that it ould est et ter so them no to pay at all, a the ferry manthe would not admit them, and so the might return to life again. Aster his, heia the have Washed them eli ascis the infernat ahe wagno sussicient for the purpose , the anoint illi the finest intinent the alia most si in hin carcasse, crown it illi flo ers, and Hres vj fine, that tmay no catch oldipon the oad, or appear aked e re Cerberus othis succe ed the wee ping of the Momen, te ars and lamentations on ever
si de beatings of the breast, earing of the air, and blood elice hs; ome- times the garments are rent in ieces, usi sprinkled in the lead, and theli ving, in stiori in a mors condition than the dea d for the roti thenaseiveson the earth, and beat thei head against the ground whils the decea sed is finely adorned, and carried a bout a tos me PompOUs celebri ty then, perhaps steps forti froin the naiddie of the croud the ather o mollier for e illsuppose, the belle to carr Onthe farce, that the deceased is sonae ea uti ful)outh, and embracinthim, ut ter si me strange and absurd speech, hic ithe ead man, fae had a voice, ould give a prope '' an Mer o formoruthe fallier, in melanchol tone, cries out Meetest boy, hywould yo die, and leave me thus, ut si in theio Ner Dyour age ; never
Inhumata infletaque turba, mentioned by Virgil a se of psor ovis, hessor ivant of the ceremon of ein burie were forced after death to,ander about, and could gain admittance et ther into the regions filisse, nor the stat o punissiment. The account of this in ancient author is ver imperi eiu and ob scurea iseems, however, o have laid the oundationis a doctrine equali absurd with the Pa. gan, a Popista purgatory. er. J This ansaee Lucia gives a litile artherin heresere goo old man, c. t Mysiseetes hodi, M. J his custom, I aan old, is even no v t be ound in secerat paris os reland where the relations of the deceased, croud abnut the grave, and cry ut Ar-rahq hy ould you die, in dear honey, and leave 3 our is and weet tabes, ec.
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didit thou marr o have child rem neve didaethou ght so thy country, oitill the arth, or arrive at old age; ne ver again, in child, mali thou keepcompany, neve mali thou tali in iove, ne ver mali thou et drun with thycompanions. V his, o something like his, ill thes olim fallier say, as isti thought he could standri nee of thes things after death, and would notbe abierio ge them But his is nothing somes have nown ridiculous enough on the death of thei relations to ill thei horses, heir omen, and thei flaves, o burn along illi them thei apparet, and bur thei furniture, as hin king the may have occasio for them below. ut the old manes mentioned, hateverte migh say ith a tragical voice, didio do itfor his son 's sake, ho, e very wellaneN, could not ea him, though heroared like tentor no was it for his o n, a the sentiment ould avedone just as,et without bella expressed, and obod need tal to them-selves it musti there rein lyrio plea se thers, and hecauserit is the fassiion, ache couldio possibi teli here his son asinoing, or hether his deat h
Might no the son, heresore, avi nibegged leave os acus and Pluto topeel frona the oor of his prison, thus have reprove the fallier for his id te complainis, ,here re good old man, artathois utiliappy and disquiet-ed λ h dost thou rouble me illi th lamentations leave offaearing thyhair, and ut ting thymem; li dos thou cali me retched, hen Pammuch happier than thys et D dost thou hin it a missortune to me that Lamno like thee, id, aggard, and withered, and rusty, illi a bald pate, and wrin kle face, bent dorun illi age, and wea hams, after suci a numberos Olympiads that arei ut so man witia esses of thy follyGoliat is there inlise so valuable that Icilio uid here regret the lose of at in and drin king, yo xv ill say, fine cloaths, and fine omen an fearest thou thates stat bewretched formant of theses Knowest thou no that neve to e thirst is
belle than to drin k, neve to beaungry than to eat, neve to an cloaths
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but yo canno bear the darkness, i seenas hi chris to surro und me, and areastat Isia ille choaked in m grave; ut lea se to remember, heta myeyes a re putri fied, or burned, Dyota mean toturn me, I mali notae able todistinguis h light frona darknesi: ut, moreover of what service to me illbe allos uraries, the beatings of the breast, and women' lamentations thesepulchre roruned with flowers, o the wine poured upon it, do ou thin itwill distili to me, o penetrate in to the inferna regionc An a sor ou sacrifices and libations the smok of them an oni ris to ea ven, an die of titile se to the dead; hat is test in illi nothingi ut dust, and do ou th in kwe are tot sed ruith ames poliat the empirem Pluto is o barren and un- fruitsul that e have no asphodelus test, an must be oblige to 'o for
have argue in his manner And et Molis me mahe a no is and uille, and cali in very da fome lamentable sophis or theroo murmur for them, and oin their Nn ridiculous complainis to his melanchol son gQ illi re-gard to this ali are seol alike; ut acto sepulture, eople have different customs the Grecian burn his dead the Persia inters, the india makes an earthen crust for them, the Scythian ais, the gypti an pic kles them, he makes the drie carcase, I spea frona ocular proos, his guest an potcompanion a poO AEgyptia frequently get mone to maintain himself byparunt nitiis dea relations the come pyramids, Ombs, monuments and inscriptions, hicli ast heaven knows, ut a very litile time, and are trulyidie and ridiculo us sonae have institute sporis and funerat orations at thetombs of the decea sed a i the meant to Plea his cause, and give a fa-vourable character of him to the jud ges below; after ali these comes the relations feast the kindre meet to com for the parenis, and force them totahes me refressi ment, hicli the nee no do, for the who have fasted three days are glad nough to ea again then the cry ut to them, ore
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The common cares that nouris life forego; Not thus did Niobe, o forna divine, parent Once, hos sorroNs equalied hine. Arad, ' terna sorro hat avalis to hed pG eece honour not it solemn ast the dead. The then, perhaps, egi to laed a litile, though,ith fear an trembling, as f the were affamed, after the death of thei dear relations t be subjectio human infirmities. These, an a reat many the things, stili more ridiculous, ne may observe illi regar to mourning arising perhaps, ali rom the vulgaropinion, that deallicis the greatest of eviis.
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ducive to this endri nor halici refuse m instructions to a ovili, ho likeyou, ambitious os excellin in the nobi est accomplissimenis, an ignorantho to acquire them, solicit ad vice and direction. Listen then to whatriam minxto say, and mali notat he least dolabitu that in a very mori timeyou illono every thing that is requisite, andae ab leo practis it provide that ou continue o observe Ulia I halloeach ou reflecto serioussyupon it, and caremit tread in that path, ill o reach the goal. The gameyo are in has of is, inde ed by no means Oor o contempti ble, ut suchas ill require tot an vigilance, an in ursuit os, hi Ch there is nothini vi hich ought no tot borne for ho many, O must rem arti, holesore e re me of no steem, have, by thei stili in oratory, ecome rich, great, and nobiel In the mean time, emo dis mayedi terrified by the multiplicit of a bour Whicli ou are to undergo for I sta alliso carry o suci a rough and
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most magnificent promise his i uti hospitabie Jove I intreat 1 o notio sub or misi rust me, heia I say, I ill conduet ou illi the greatestease, lea ire, and a set and Hesiod only by croppingin eis leaves frona Helicon, frona a simple saepherd, immediate lyraeca me a poet, and favoured by the Mus es, sing the trili os od an men mali, thin itim possit, te, in a very mori time, to make an orator, horis Q much beneaththe grandeur an dignit os a poet, ii, cani ut discove the quickest way
relli teli ou the propos alis a certain Sidonia merchant, hicli Diledoni by notaeing attende to and the refore, as fio service to the person to hom it Was addressed Alexander, after the victor ove Darius at
Arbela, a master o Persa, and had occasion to sendis essen ger throughalliaris of the empire; oK, it was a long a froni Persia io AEgypt forthey were toto ali round the mountains, and then Dona Babylonia into Ara.
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bia, and after passing through a long desert on o AEgypt this gave Alexander no litti uneasin est, as he had ear the AEgyptians ere plania ingsomething against him, and wanted much to give order to his satraps con cerning them. At his time it was that a Sidoni an merchan tria id to im, Q an promisse, aing, to hew ou a very horto a fro Persia toAEgypt let a maniutinet ver hos mountains, hicli e may do in threedays, andrae illi there immediatet . V An sic Nas reatly the case, ut Alexander ould o belleve the mercliant, and callei him an impollor the improbabilit of the promise veraein fulsille rendered it abso uelyincredibi e to the multitude. But o not ou imitate them for ou ill oonano vi experience, that nothin can in deroo frona be in a complete orator in es than D lay stime, by ying illi me ver the mounta in rom Persia into AEgypt but, besere e et ois, et me iue you, by an allegory, in the anne of Cebes, both the oads for there a re two hic h lead to that orator ει hicli ou
stem so ambitious to obta in Observe then sit tingi an eminence, a beata ti-ful figure bearing in her right and the horn of Amalthaea, lied illi fruitos ever kines imagine that on the otheride, o belloid the amiable Plutus
allivet gold by thei siderare glor an dio er, illi a number of Praises and compli ments like so many litti e Cupids, embracing each other, and fluiter ingabout ou just as ou have een the Nile represente lean in on a crocodile, or Hippopotamos, illi boys playing round him, hich the cali thel cubit of AEgypt suci are the prat se thaliove round an Orator Ap-proach then, sola lover, ascend the eminence, and there receive thy bride, with iches, glory, and applause, for these a re ali the lawful right of himwhessa ali spous her. When o come ne a to the mounta in atrarit ou ill perhaps, despat os ver geli in to the OP scit it ili appea asAornos id to the Macedonians s inaccestibi e that even the bird cans carce si up t it, and rei uires the strengii os a Bacchus, o Hercules, totali possessionis it But ou ill soon perceive trio pallis that te ad prio
Ce L The Theban Philosopher, and disciple o Socrates, author of the amous allegoryos the Tabula Cebetis.
f. ubi s. J There is no a the uillertes ea Paris, a marblearo Lipem figures, copied fio the antique statue here alluded to, representing the rive Nile, unde the figure Dan oldman crowned illi laurei, and leaningin his ibo with a cornucopia in his hand on his arnas, Roulders, and thi glis, re xleen aked boys, igni j in s many cubiis, the height of theriver, hen it overflows, and enriches the whole territor Oi Egypt.
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a Garth, in his Epilogue to the Distrest diother has humumussy described ii,