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oni be credite by a ' Coraebus o Margites, et Dyo willio belleve his no that ' Triptolemus as carried through the irin the wings of dragons. thata a came ut of Arcadia, to assist at the batilem Marathon, and that Dorythia a ravi med by the orth-win f he who illisol ive credit tothing so pla in and true a these, Ouidi thought an impio us ad mancito lac his degre hath lying, and the love of it, gaine a ooting amongit

PHILOCLES. Stili poets, Tychiades, an nations too, a stan excused sor illi theone, it gives a relissi to thei fictions and charin the reader, and with theother, alias a respeet an veneration for their country Rob Greece of althe fabies, and yo will starve theseople ho me incit an lirangers ould no than you for telling them thetare truth, even though theyia nosti nil forcit Those, however, ho love lying oni for I in sake, are, in deed, trui ridiculoUS. ΤYCHIADES. I assii re o Pthin Q for I have this moment test Eucrates, hom hombheard the most strange and incredibi e stories; Lwas obliged, to say the truth. to ge a Na frona in a fastis I could, and even in the mi istis his dis courseu his absurdisod abominabi tales, like so an suries, drove me out of his house. PHILOCLES. Eucrates is a man O si xty, a philosopher, With a long beard of credit an reputation, and was alWays considerectas a person ho ould neve tella lie himself, nor suffer an bod et serio do it in his presen ce. TYCHIADES. Anxyet o cannot imagine Tychiades, wha thingsae advanced, οπanxiousine eemed octave them belleved, More io, and ledged his own

Graebus o Margites J Probabi the original ames of No celebrateri ol os antiqui tu audasterward used in generat tomagiiij, an idiot Homercis sat esto have rit ten a satirical poemcalle the Margites, o the idiot; ut it Was, most probably like the batile of the Dog and mice, the work of me ne of his numerous imitat s. - Triptolemus. J See Lucian' Dream, and the note upo It. Pan. In Jupiter the Tragedian See note on Pan. OOthia. See vid' Metamorphosias, . i. I Rob Graece, i c. For a fuit confutationis Quicquid Graecia mendax, Audet in Historia. Prese m reader' to the learned and ingenious r. Bryant' Analysis.

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astonishment so metimesci thought the man was no in his right minit, an dat others, that he was an imposior h had decet Ved me or an as in a lion 'sskin, s ver absurd and ridiculous e re thetori es hich he old. PHILOCLES.

besides these, there Nas Antigonus the physician, ho, I suppos e. had been called in to give his ad vice in the di sorde hicli Eucrates laboured tander, and whicli asaro ini letter, as it a no gelii nido again into his et he spolie to me in clo voice, as i distempered, and dei red meto sit down by him on the ted though, as I came in I thought I eardhim talking very loud: I too great care not to ouch his feet, and after making the uuial excuse, that I id notano of his liness, ut came a s onas ver I id sat down by him; the compan were ali tali in about his distemper, and very one rescribin his Ni remedy for it is, Did Cle demus, o take P a eas et frona the grotan in our est hand kill et in the maniae I mentioned, and wrapcit ut in the kin D lion ust se ad , and clai it to the leg the pa in ill ceas immedia tely not aclion 's, sui Dinomachus, ut asci aves learii, a oun virgin hi nil this, inde ed is themost probabie, e cause thesi in is rei fi andrae strength lies in her feet: a io is stron in deed his dat, therefore, and his right pa , it, sonae

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strat hali ut of his beard properi administered, and with se me certainword sui ted to the occasion, a d much, ut no in i sorder of the fiet. thought formerly replied Cleodemus, as Jou do that i siould b, ah ind's scin, ecause thera in Iris Mift- oted ; ut in certa in African weli stille in hings of this nature, latet' informed me that tons were sisi fierthan hinds for they frequently ursu an kill them Every bod presse tagreed in commendation of the African who, thensa id, a certaint in theright. in do ou reatly thin k, cri ed H, that a man a te cured bycharnas and incantations that externat applications an remove the di sordet

that is illi in At his speechi mine they ali laughed immoderatetv plaini despisin in folly and ignorance, in no knowing things hich e re soclear and evident, that no an in his senses ould eve dare o contradicti hem. The physici an alone eem explea sed a m question, ho, I suppost ,had himself been laughe at for advisin his patient to absia in frona ine, live pon vegetabies, and o tal soci oud. Cleodemus sim pered, and a id, moeci appear, Tychiades, si incredibi that these remedies moui die of any service in certain distem persi V o me replied I, it undoubted ly must, uni essyo th in me sicli an idiotras to belleve that an application frona inithout

can possibi be communicate to the paris illi in or that certa in charnas and hard Kord cara produce a cure, hic licit certa in ly annor, though ouwere to rasinus' hundred, eas et in the hin of the Nemaean lion, o many one of tho se oble beast have I seen illi his holes in on, and et lamehimself.' ou seem, a id Dinomachus, totali ignorant, and neve to have learn ed the wonder fui essedis of these medicines 'o do noti et leve, I sup- pose, halcis clear o very body that intermitti ni evers may be cured, and the bites of serpents char med lata a b old Nomen and ct f thesethings are done very ay, hy may no the ther Dinomachus, replied I, ou dra false conclusions, and a the say, only rivemutine ait illianother, hat ou mention an neveri performe by the means hic hyouassign nor ill I ver belle verit, ill ou an conVince me that a severo a Selli in ca be rightene Maway by a peti, or an incantation lookupo ali ou have ad vanced, there re a so many id omen's abies. V By our aik, a id Dinomachus, ou se em noto belleve that here a re

any god S, or ou ould not urely de ny that i sorders may be removed by divine invocations.' That, aides, my frien d does by no means follo Qthere a be go is, and et ait 'his' a te am a devo ut reo: si in per of the

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therio is, and ear itnes to the cures hicli the work on me by thel eis of medicine: ut sculapius an his sons ealed the sic by administering good an prope remedies, noti lion and weaseis.' mo more of this, interrupted Ion, but let me teli yo a most miraculous thing. When I was aio abo ut laurteen, a man came one da to my a- the and old in that Midas, his vine-d rester, a stron lust fellois, adbeen jus bittent a serpent, an laid With his texat putri fie& it kems, ashe was tying up the branches, a vipera ad crepi up bit his thumb, an reis turne to his hole. The oor man was Neeping, and almost dea ruit thepati sor, se hi in carried by his felloru- servant on abed, livid, Melled, and ali nos expiring My ather fee med much concerned, heia a friend of his, ho happened o be present se id, I, ill en yo a man os Babylon, o ne of the Chaldaean s. ho can cur hi m. T cut m stor mori, the Babylonian came, and by an incantation re the olson ut of his body, at the sanae time tying a stone to his Mot, hici he had roh offfroni thetonabis a virgin latet dead. his, perhaps, a seem noth in extraordinar to ou though the man whicli I Nas an ye-Witnes of took pth bed hich he had been brought upon, and walhed bactato his ork: suo effecti ad the incantation, and the stone rom the sepulchre. tu after his he hewed stili greater marks of divineio era for early one morning in the country, he waiked thrice round a certain place, an after puri 'iniit illi torches and sulphur, pronounce seven holy ord out ofan ancient book, hici immediatet drove ut ali the serpent that ereu ith in that circle drawn by his incantation, here came about hi in innumerable asps, vipers, ruddocks, and nakes of very kin d; ne id ra-gon, in deed, aid ehind who was to old to cra l, and there re id notobe y the mandate the magician, oKever, hoane by his artoliat he hadiso go them complete, sent the oungest serpent to the dragon, hocame a litile aster, and when he had gathere them ali together, the Babylonian ' blowed pon them, and totur greatlastonissament, the were im

Rud iocis. J Greeh, ρα ι, the physalus of the Red Sea, mentioned by Elian. 4 Blo Ueae This is qui te in the style of a modern conjurer.

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Domahe orth, I have been coni inced, and though sor a long time eryloth, am a tengi satisfie&: oK, indeed, sto ut it e ther i se, hendla him, in the iddie of the day, y in the air, altaupon the ater, and passiowl and deliberatet through therare. An have o reatly sa id I seen his norther hero si thus, and wal upo the water V have, sayche, and with leatheria stoes, like other eople's noto mentio many litile things hichrae oes, such a creatin affections, riving ut pisiis, calling up the dea to life s oppin Hecate, and drata in down the Moon. Liuill teli 3 ou hac se him do for Glaucias, the son o Alexicles thisyoung man, as Oon si came to his state, after the dea th of his fallier, fel in love it Chrysis, the aughter os Demenetus he was a that timem pupil in philosophy, and Diti ad no been foro his passion, ould oon have learne at the doctrines of the Peripatetic school for though ut a youth of eighteen, he had mastere analysis, and gone through the nature of things this Iove affair, however, ad opped him in his progressi, and he made me his confident in it; pon hich, as 'ecam his master, Icarrie him immediatet to this orther magici an gave in Mur minaedown sorte anted ome money for the sacrifices , an promise him x-teen more o the possessionis Chrysis: hereupon, as Oon a he had go afuit moon, and performe certain hol ceremontes, e dux deep rench in particular par of the liouse, and at idni glit, is called p Anaxicles, the fallier o Glaucias, holad been dea nea seve monilis the old mandi no approve of the astair, an see me for a time extremel angry illi his son about it, ut at length gave his consent. The nexi ho appea redwas Hecate, accompani ed by Cerberus, and after her, the oon, Putting onvarious saapes, rixtaking the formi a o man, then o an ox, and liillyo a dog then Our cunning man fastioned ut o cla a litile Cupid, and ba de him g and latch Chrysis; a wayae flew, and in a mort time aster siehnocked a the oor, came in and embra ced Glaucias, illi ait the marks of the strongest love and flection. Aster his, the oon e aWay to heaven Hecate descende to the arth, the spectres vanistaed, and abo ut day-brea we et the ni Chrysis ut again.

BZeame. J The grave tutor carryinthis youia pupil to a conjuror, and givinibim moneyrocure a giri sor him is a fine strox on the pio us philosopher of that time, lio, in the spirit os a modern Chester ield, thought it cruei, o doubi, to aut the oung mari' in

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no altogether o quick-fghted as ou a re Iano the lady homo ou speaho extrem et well, a very loving one me is, and with no great dissicut ty obe acquired, o canci se an necessit os seniling ou litti cla ambassa dor o her, o the oon, o the ortheria Magici an a fora venty drachmas siue ould go to the Hyperboreans thenaseives this is an incantation hichsae always istens to though her nature is a litile different frona that o apparitions sor they, as ou teli has, sty way at the ound of brassi iron, hereas, is siue ear the least in kling o salver me illo un to ou immediately. But Irim mos sui pri sed that his reat magici an himself, ho might, nodoubr be love by the wealthies of the sex, an die aid illi man a goodi dent, mouidi s ridiculous as to emplo his artini in makin Glaucias belove l. V est is ridiculous in ou seid Ion thus to distet leve very thing butwhat thinh oh of tho se, ho et the daemoniac fre frona ali heir ainsand terrors, and charm the evit spiriisse they an no m testimony, forthous and wili teli ou of the Syri an rom Palaestine, o famous for his cures of this kiny who ook o many oor retche laying on the ground bymo n-light rolling their yes bout anx amin a the mouit, an for acer: a in mali re ard, ais e them p and sent them home qui te recovere l. He would standove the evit spiriis, and ast them henc the came thepatient, ali the time, says nothing, and the spirit answers in Greel , o someother lango age, and telis him how, and frona hen cerae carne into the man:

Lleas. The descriptionis ideas, accordin to the doctrinem Plato, deli vered by Alcinous, i, a folio Vs: Ideas are theeternat notion o God, perfect in thenaseives, hether God e tutellest, ors methingintelligent he mus have bis intelligibies, and thos eternat an immoveabieci fio, there resideas ; ror, ii matre it self, e in iis et fioidis meas ure, it is necesibiu that it receive ineasure frona sonae superior, that is holi remote frona atter : ut the antecedent is true, therei ore the consequent; and fio, there are deas. lf the worid eremo made by hance,

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Κillers, done by Critias, and observe that hic li stand by the fountain, with a large belly bald-pated hal na ked, illi the hairs of his ear si ut-tering in the wind the muscies stron grandiold, in hori, the very i man him

it must nolint be ad os mething, ut i, something, and not ni se, ut aster the likenes of somethings ut that after hol likenes it a made, halcis it but an dea wheiacei folio eth, that here are ideas.' Lucian frequently laugiis a Plato and his solio ers, as Obscure, mysterious, and unintellig-ibleu roni a viein f the above I plication trideas, m reader Will probat, ly be of the fame opinion. Croos. The ron, ood, and probabi every par of the materials of hicli the rosis, orgallows, was made so the .eYecurioni criminals ruas, e ma suppose, rechoned peculiartyessicacious in the exorci fingis evit spirits by the superstitious heathens of that time. ut superstitions fulicis die and ridiculosis as an here recounted have, eanON, O cur hameae it spoxen, many ages a ter dis graced the enlightened aera o Christiani ty. Discobolus. J rom i is ks ῆαλλω, the thrower of the discus a sor of heau round quoitia unc hed rom a thong, ut through a hole made in themiddiem it it a thrown dith a circular motion, ne of the thrower' hand b in nea the reast themther balancing the dissi: the limbsaeing ali ascit ere, in motion the altitude fine, and the muscies properi extended. must have formed altogether, a good figure so the statuary. The discobolus of Myro, probabi the sameras is here taken notice of is mentioned by Quintilian. Man hi es. J r. 'οαγρρω πω See the notemni: τοθαις.

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self it is the mage of Pelichus, the Corinthian generat.' NON, hy

is illiive no credit to t.' number of oboli, resume Eucrates, lay at his feet, se me pieces of silve mone inere also glued on illi a Mabout his thi glis, and sonae plates of the fame, hich he had received as offering fro some of his votaries, o in return, o curing them of their evers. se had at that time a Libyan lave o ake care o ou horses this ascali ad the impudendeto come in the night, and stea ait thes things Nay, hiis the statue asgotiis his pedestat: ut a Don a Pelichus returned, and perceived that he had been robbed mar the engeance hicli seli Pon the African, and ho he was taken he waiked ali night round about the hall, and could not et ut oscit, ut a caught ascit ere, in a labyrinth, an disti rea of

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raucrates, sat Antigonus the physician, I have, myself, go a litilebras Hippocrates, bout a cubit Ong, WhO, ver night, as Oon a thelammis ut, aiks ali ver the ouse, makes a violent Oise, pens and si ut the oors, mixes m phials ne illi nother, and turn mytoxes topsy-turvy, specialty f e appen to defer ou annuat sacrifice to him. V

An does Hippocrates, satiles, at this timem da y look sor sacrifices, and expedi ric offering tot made to hinat Pthin he might be satisfied illi

Minos' friand. J Talus, mentioned above he was employed a the prime minister of Minos king of Crete, to en rce his larus throughout the kingdom, an Rhicli,ere engraved by him, ascis besere remarked on tables of brass. Funera cale. J It was the custom of the Greelis, o put into the mouilis of thei deceased friend a mali cake compose of flour, honey, and ther ingredients. Virgil calis it Melle sopocatam Medicatis frugibus offam. This a designexto appeas the fur of Cerberus, thesamous dog of heli, an to procure of him a sese an quiet en traneo.

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nos, stand an nyat the recita os t.' And saying this , he he Ned them at Ith hairsin his arna, hici stood p in rifiles illi the right. At this time, the old felloius Ion Dinomachus, and Cleodemus, istene to him illi open mouilis permitted him patiently to lea them by thensis, and reedit swallo Ned his incredibi si ory of the Colossus, and igniant spedire hal a stadium bigh. In the mean hile, I could not hel pue- sectino hore these mei are respecte an admired by ur ovili for theirwisdom, though their grey beariis lone distingui sta them frona child ren, vilio are o so ea si ly deceived a the are, by such abominable false hostis. nil horu big, set Dinomachus, ere the dog alter, replied he, than Indian elephanis, lach, rough, and with diri in id es when Isa them I lood stili, and turned y ring on the inside, Whicli the Arabian. ave me; pon hicli, Hecate, stri Ling the round with her nak or,

long then a ad a vie of the hades elow of Pyriphlegethon, theburning ake, and Cerberus and si the dea so plain ly that I could disse

riphlegethon. J A burning Iahe, o river liose aves os liquid re re perpetuat lysoising so the amulement of the damned in the poetica he I.