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lest, oren yoin tumble me mill then order ou rio imitate the ancients, whicli is no ver eas to do, and produce o sonae obsolet example out
of the old shop, sicli ac Crates, ' Hegesias, and the amo usa stander, stili
Crat/j I mentioned by Diogenes Laerti his as a celebrated orator. The criti cs, oKever, stem to think that Luci an meant in his place, to spea os Critias, the famous orator mentioned by Cicero, in his reatis de Claris Oratorib his, hociive in the time o Thucydides ;and whoris likeisi se taken notice of by Philoriatus, in his book de Vitis Sophiliarum.' Hegesias. Cicero speah like ise, ut seem to have entertainedis ver high opinionis him, observin in the bove mentioned reati se de Clar orat that Charisii voluit similis esse, atque se ita putavit Atticum, ut viros illos prae se pene agi estes putaret. blander. J Gorgias Leontinus, calle theris tander, Dominis bella a native of Siei ly, whichwas terme the stati Κατ ιξοχυ he vas a disciple o Empedocles, an hel the rit rankamong the sophist of his time heris mentioned likewisei Philostratus and Plutarch. LV liuor ima erysson. J Demosthenes.l Atrometes. Eschines the famous orator See Demosthene.' Oratio de Corona.
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fictures, and amongst the est an lall-knowin and beauti fui man with aniandulat in motion in his gait, and iste ad bent on ne side, a sost voice, an an effeminat counte nance, to achin his hea gently illi the tip of
his finger, and adjustin his curte hyacinthi ne locks like Sardanapalus, Cyniras, Agatho himself the amous hand se me tragic poet: ou illkno hi in by these marks; et not, I beseech cu, O divine a figure, ones dear o Venus and the races, escape our Observation; ut ho canes
mouth of his, illi iis ac custo med siseetness, ou ill oon perceive that heis noti ne onus common PeOple, hociive pon the fruits of the arth, ut sonae fore ign and miraculous creature, sed illi de an ambrosia oo him, i 1 ou consign)ourself, ou ill immediate lyaeco me a famous orator, or,
as e calis himself, a ain os ords, and ride in the chariotis eloquence; for he will oon each ou very thing. But et him si ea for hinas eis ridiculous, indeed, ould itie in me, toliarangue o suci, an orator Q siouldiu spoli the par of so greati ero, were I to attempto per forna letaim, heres ore, ad dress ou, as Oona he has stroked down his litile foretop, and gi ven o one of his ostbeauti fui miles, with a voice like Glycera, Matthace, o the reat comic
Ais ΛΕ- umuing, '. . It is supposed a I observe in the fir note that Luci an here meantio satiris Iulius Polluc; ut this si no means clear. - albo. J his amotis tragic poet is mentione by Aristoti in his Poetics, and by thei holias sin Artilophanes. ut for the funest account of him I refer the curious reade to theleariae flent ley' Dissi errationis the Episties of Euripides. II meit an . D Alludin to the mountain o Hymettus, se amous se iis honey. Aing of euord, bo. Ridiculous exprestions probabi quote sto the work of the n- fortunate author uo lappit for imself, contigne to oblivion, hom Luci an meant to
Thai, hi, fg. Lucian calis her i πιθαι , he great Thais, o Thais hersei f. In the fame manne in his Timon, he calis Boreas υτο ορόας, ipsemet Boreas an uncommon expresson, belleve, and peculia to this aut hor. Q bis, ephon. Who, in are tol l enquired of the Pythian oracle, ho was the wisest osme, the oracle returned O ans er Socrates.
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Tibus. J The amous giant mentioned by Homer Se Odysse A. l. 3o7. Tarentine. The linen o Tarentum as, probably, a Lindis gause, se remarhabi fine asto berulino pellucid, and consequently shewed the ladies o genti emens limbs ho ore it toth greatest advantage. Sioohian stoe J This kind of hoe so calle seo the place here it was made, and generali inorn by the ladies though the acaronies of that age, as e finda this passage sonae- times made use of them. Si mihi calceos says Tudy, Sicyonias attulisses, non uterer, quamvis
essent habiles, rapti ad pedema sed non viriles. See Cic. de Orat. b. i.
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book in Our hand All his o must provide ourseis illi and a sorthe est, as e go a long I ill explain very th in to ou, and a dorunsonae hales, hicli, is o caresuli observe, orator stat notis ectoo asone lio ath neve been initiated into her mysteries, ut illi operiarnas receive an Membrace ou. An fir st, remember that our res and appear-ance are decent and and sonae then et o sisteen or twenty good Atticwords, et selected, and maturei considere Mos, hich o must have al-ways ready, and at our Ongue' end such a ' alia, and lata, and Dra, and a negete, and lo se, an se forti, these yo must prinkle ove ever disecoulse, lihe so many Neetme ais, and ne ver ind, is the est of your ordsare ver so unlike them, harsa, and di nant, and of qui te nother class. Let our arbi a coarse Myo please so that the purplete fine, and fullo flowers. In the other Paris of your speech, our ord may be strange, obsolete, an such as are et dom et illi amongs the ancients these oumust have ready to thro at ver bod who converses ithoo the vulgaru ill admire ou, and th in Iou a wonderia man, hos learia iniis abovethei ' comprehension. IL aster ali, o blunder po solecitas and barbaristas, there sine in- fallibi remed for ou, hicli is impuden ce oo have nothinga do butim mediatet to quγte sonae poet O prose-writer, o matter hether there ever a suci a Person, ho approve that mode of speech, and who was amost earne man, an an excellent ud ge of langu age. As to study, vo must neve re ad the ancients the trister cisocrates, the wkwardui gracemi Demosthenes, o the frigid Plato; ut consul the books latet y publimed, hat e callisur declamations frona these yo may gather
IDyou are to spea on an potiat, and the persons present a re for suggestingarguments o ou, an furni sining Ou illi matter, rea them illi con-
Atia, 'i . Gree word frequently used by ome of the est Attic riters and which. there fore, the ridiculous imitator of them e re perpetuali making se of and applying righto wrong, in their own orks. . Comprehenson. J Here Lucia quote two or three quaint ord an phrases, sed a thatti mea the literar coxcombs of the age, hicli, a the earne reader lio ellano saltem, ill asil perceive are untranslatable.
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tempt teli them, ha the cali dissiculi is extremel ea sy, and that theyare astat of do in an thin great or nobi e then ithout de lay rusti on, and say any thing that comes into our ead, neve goinifrom sir to second, and rom se con to third, ut et hale ver comes ii st, e firmad vances an is it Q happens, ut the boot pora ou head, and the helmeton Our Oot; go i talking, hate ver ou do, an neve be silent fyo are speaking abo ut an adulter at thens, es ire yo let themanoruwhat is done in icti cases a Persia, and the in dies : bove ali domo for-get Marathon and Cynagirus for 'ithout them Ioi do nothinx sati tomount Athos, an dioin mota the Hellespont, cove the Sun illi Persia narrows, ahe Xerxes ly, old p Leonidas to admiration read the bl oodyletters of Othryades, and tal for ver about Salamis, Artemisium, and Plataea dis eli perpetuat ly on these, et them stoat pon the furface, eepthese soKers always in bloom, and continuali repeatin yoUr alta nil depo-then, though there is no occasion for them for they a re alway beauti fui, even hen the are nothing to the purpose. Q at an time o have an opportunit os singing, et very thingi esting but Dyo can find nothin sit tot sing modulate ou voice to the prope tone, add resis ourset in sing-song to the judges, and depend pon it, the harmon is complete. Be ure to repeat frequently alas alas thens rike ou thigh, siret cli ou throat, an roar ut our ord in a oud scream, an strut bout mansul ly, and uia ke our posteriors is they dono applaud ou be an gry ith, and abus them i they seem assiam ed, and want to go is, op them mahe them sit down, and in mori, exercise
your fuit dominion ve them That the vulgar may admire oUr speeches, bring oui arguments frona the lege of Troy or ather, is ou Nili, si omthe marriage of Deucalion an Pyrrha, qui te do n to the present times. Under standi nili earer a re se in number, and ut o good nature ill say
will admire our di est, voice, aik, gesture, singing nay Vcia OUr sinesmoes, and our alia; and when the see o s eat, an toti, an diu T, and blow, ill neveri persuaded ut that yo a re a mos accompli me orator: besides that the rapidi ty of ou extempore eloquence carries illi it noli tile excuse sor very thing, and alNays gain admiration illi the vulgar.
Oth ades. See lalter partis Charon, vol. i. and the note pon it.
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commit adultery, at lea si teli every body o do, glor incit, and ste the
, ὸὸf. This method os applause, by stri hin the ee o the round was, e have rea- sono supposie, genetrali adopte by the ancients a modern audience makes se of thelian is for the iam purpose, hicli is easter, and at the same time, perhaps, more exhilaratising. monian. Demosthenes.
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-Thes things, ouia mala, is o diligenti Observe and the a re very ea si ly one , I ill an sine for it in acilior time, ou ill e the est
considere as a modern invention, as kno by the Spence' and Vanbutcheli' os antiqui ty. D Hunc . It was customary mongst the ancients a Ne learia frona Casa ubon and other writers se thos advocates, who ad gaine their cause, to han: up reen branches anderowns besore their sors in token of thei success, hicli juvena alludes o, ut tibi lasso Figantur virides, scalarum gloria palma'. And Martial also, in the folio in lines, Sic fora mirentur, sic te palatia laudent, Excolat et geminas plurima palma fores. Book vii Epis. 2-. I this custom too place amongimus, halarove os triumphantareen ould have roKnc thedoors os a Thur et , a Norton, and a Dunnius cate,
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cate, verse in very fraud, and the prince of mischi es. Such are the precept whicli I deli ver to)ou, and whicli I practi sed long ago mystis, illino litile emolument.
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ΡHILOCLES. There are many things, Tychiades, hich in luce men to teli clies fortheiriae interest an ad vantage. TYCHIADES. That is no wlia I mean I id not ast illi regarii to tho se ho have areason forcit, the deserve pardon, a even prat se, who practis it to deceive an nem y, o save thenaseives frona any missortune a ' lysi es didio reserve his in liis, and secure the sala re turn of his companioras; ut an speaking of those lio, ithout an necessity, prefer bing to truth, and delight in it for no reason hais ever.
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What can we a sor lach, ut that the are ools and madmen, hothus prefer the worst an meanest, to the nobies an best of things TYCHIADES. Ando et it is no at ways many have Ianown in other respeet meno admirabie sense and wisdom, ho 3 et have, Iano no how been o infatua ted with his vice, a tocte ver deceiving others, and thenaseives also;you know as et asci do hore egregi ous thos ancient,riter η Herodotus and ' Ctesias, and e re them the amous poeta, illi Homer imselfamong them, by their lies, imposed pon o only the reader of theirtimes, ut de livere them down in thei beauti fui verses even to ou own. I tum for them hen the tal about thea division of heaven the chain os Prometheus, the rebellion of the gianis, and the whole tragi tale of thesin sernat regions, and o Jupiter a turne into a buli, O a Man, and women change to bears and birds ad to these, thei Pegasus, Chimaeras,
Gorgons Cyclops, an ali suci sor os fabies, fit ni t amus child renwho re a Daid of ghost an spectres. The fictions o poets, however, might be passediver; ut ore absurd and ridiculous is it in hole cities an hingdoms, to teli public an palpabie falselio si the Cretans are notam amed o fhew o the tonabis Jupiter, and the Athenians teli ou that Erichthonius gre out of the ear th, and that therarimen prundiu like somany abbages rom Attic soli ando et these ere more specious liars hanthes Thebans, ho aik of men rising up ro dragon'saeeth. Is, me a mination, o sin ali thes things tot so a frona true, that the could
Herodotus. In his riter, horis certainly one of the most agreeable liars of antiquit ;we meet, a Lucia here intimates, illi ome ver strange stories Herodotus, however, it ma be suid in defence of him, oes no himself, ouchrior the truthis every thingi relates,,ut stive iis the lie just aches unxit, leavin his reader torullowrit hal degre os credit theythin proper. . . Opsas J ho wrote the histor of the Persian ara and accordi nyto ali account, tot da many lies as Herodotus, though notiat so entertaining. Dimison. Aster the death of Saturna et een Iupiter, c. Th baus. Alluding to the stor o Cadmus See Ovid' Metamorphosis.