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could not hel pie in angi y ithat, at the dis appo iniment of mu opes, and was exed that the amber liould thus lip ut o my and 8, hau in ali eady revolved in m minii, o ho many uses I could have ut it, and o serviceable it ould have been to me. One thing, ore ever, I stili thought yset ire of that Iciliould ear an umber of sinans singing on the bank of the river; and accor lingly, again enquired of the saliors, foro continue ro in Dp the stream hen, a id I, ill these reans give has thei sinee soni they e re tace, e re tolli, men ii sun admirably, and ' companion o Apollo, alidasterward turn ed into bird ora his ver spol, here, not Orget fu of the it nausic they continue stili to sing. V And will ou never, cri ed they, aughing, eas teli in fabies ab ut
could pic up suci stori es abo ut S. Thus may eopleae deceived in hings in his hin who trust o sicli asexaggerate ali hey hear o spea of Lam, heresere, no a litti solici totas with regard o myself, est yo who come o to ear me, and ne ver eardine e re expedi in a great quantit of wans an amber frona me, aouldgo a ab dis appotia ted, and augh at tho se ho promised oti so many fine things in m orations but I asiure ou, O ne Ver ear me, oreve saall, boastin in his manner. ou ill si nil many in ur Eridanus, whos eloquence distilis, no amber, ut gol iis et f. andyhoare more harmoni ou than at the wans of the poets; ut a for me, ou se retia I am, plain simple, and illiterate, nor ca I laxat all. I ake eed, there fore, test, is ou expect to much, ou resemble those ho ook at things under the water, supposing them to e sit a by the refraction of the ay theyappea frona bove, heia they find them, i ta king them ut much esse, the are violent ly an gry Iiive ou arning thereiore, hen the water is potared ost , and Dam ahen ut nota expedi an great matters leti, by
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us issertation on A BRooΜsTic K. of the sam Nature is me sportis Plamos Fano bich Ue meet it in his litti Pisce, here orer Satyris p ars in thenem Character of a Naturalis, hic he supporis it a tolerable Degre os a curate Observation, it regar ito the Formand alities of the diminutive Hero, cohom he has thought prope to immortaliae. His Application to the Do Irin ofPLATO has much Humoti incit. THE)3, compare to nais and ther mali insects, is by no means, the least of irds, ut a much bigger than them, as it is, it self,les than the bee it is, ithai, sedged in a disserent manner, havingina indo hair aliive iis body though the eather are thicher on iis ings: like locusis, grassi hoppers, and bees, iis pini Ons are a much soster than allisthers, a the India habit is lighter an more delicate than the Grecian IDyoulos clos to it, ou ill observe that it has a many beauti fui colour a thepea cock, henae expand hi Wings to the sun and egin his sight whentie sies, es oes no fiat the at a bout illi his ing like a bat, nor leaplike the locust, or ah alumna in like the was , ut shinas sostly and gently through the air he sings a Lindis song, notiis agreeable like the gnat, illithe heavy nois of a bee, o the threat ning sound of the wasp, ut a muchi Neeter and more harmonio us tha them, as the piperis, in comparison illithe cymbal o the trumpet Iis head is notJoin editos to the bodyas the locust is, but separa ted by a s mali nech, and turn round with ea se the eyes standiur, and a re trans parent like horn theiod is round and compa et, and the legs coming out oscit, o mori, a the was 's are, ut long and re and thebeti guardeta, ascit ere, illi plates, like a coat of mail. It defend and revenges it self, noti a sting at the extremit of the body, ut illi a proboscis, hicli it ma kes use of like the elephant, to see it self ith, and to
bird our modern naturalist wil not, I sear, allo hi in to an in s honourable a clast, ut degrade him int an insedi.
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It is atrars a orna, red in the arcases of men orither animais; by de grees it puis forti iis Det thenaeis ings, and ecomes a bird, and bre ed sanother orna, hic h like it self, is oon change into a sty : it frequenis the habitations of men, and parta es of thei od astingi very th in but oti, hicli is deat licio it lis life is ' mori, and confine Nith in ver narro limits it rejoices in the da y-light, and sies bout perpetuat ly but at night is motioni esse, ei ther sies nor sings, ut contracts iis et in silen celandobscurity. I saerus no litti stili an pruden ce in avoid in iis insidiotas enem y thespider, hos motion it caret utly atches that i may no sal into his net: of it strength and courage I need o spe ah, as the are celebrated by thei mos sublime o poets, who, prat singiis favourite ero, compares his a. lour, o to the lion, the leopard, o the boar, ut to the boldines an intrepidit of the si notini attributes strength tocit, ut coharage also forwhen repulsed, it resilis, an pursuescit bio is, in deed, o fond of it, that he makes mentionis it no Once Only, ut severa times, and frequently adorn his ork illi en conatum on it. At ne time, he gives s j a deseriptionis thei salty in sortii in iuster in pursui os mili and at nother, whenae is talkingi l Minerva' turn in aside the dari frona Menelaus,
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like a mollier preservin her feepin infant, he has reco tars to the syrior a comparison, besto Sin them the ostieautis ut epithet os frequent and fuit, an calis heir species ' nation S.
man, ut os anico a horse it ill even creel between the wrinhies of the elephanis, and wound him a deelinas a creatur of that fige can.
In love it seem to e oy peculiar happiness, ying illi it mate in clo se conjunction, as e osten se them, o many miles, and neve separat ingstona acti ther. When the ead Os a sy is ut ost , heiody ill live a long time and spin bovi. But there is one X traordinar circumstance hicli I mus Iahe notice Laud hicli Plato cem to have orgo in his reati se on the Immortali ty of the Sol P is oua prinkle asiae ove a de ad By, it comes o life againa it alias a ne existence so that it is pia in the oulis a sty usi te immortal, a after it has est the ody, it return S, and reanimates, an causes ita styabout againa hich may reconcite Us to the stOry Hermotimus, hos Qui the say, andere about O a long time aster iti ad qui ite him, an dat last returne icio his Ody, and restorei him to lis e. The sty alone, Xenapi frona labour, scem to ei oy the fruit os othei industry, and o have a table alWays fuit; goat are milked forier, for herthe bee totis as elicis sor man Lind for her cooks res thei meat; stet astes it efore Ling thenaseives, Walks sona platea plate, east on, an lenioys very thing. Sh doth no mahe her est, o fixae habitation in any particular place, but like the Scythian, lead a Wandering life and where ver night verta Lesher, et up her ous ehol gods, and akes her ed. In arhnest, a Ibefore observed, si does nothing, nor isties stae tota an thin in private, an thingi ut relia done in opera day-light, sae cannot be asianae os .
Nations. J Alluding to the forme description o Homer' εἴνεα που ae, hichiope calis the
I bonori c. J his, in reason an philosophy, is sayin no more tha that heat ill revive cieatures apparenti dead, and we very ellano , tha birds, insedis, and animais, will eontinue motionlesse, an in a state os insensibilit for a hole inter, ill sun an summeri estore them to lis and motion But heia Luci an sat this, e di no expectis to bellexehim, and ni meant a litile laugh at oldilato. Hermo imus See lin and Plutarch, ho telis iis an surprisinglories of this an and severat others, onderi uti restore to lise.
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There is a Lindis large sies, hicli sonae cali the figlit in or dog sies,
who mahe a readsul noi se and si Willi sui prisinis istia es these a re very long-lived, and rem ain ali the inter Without ood, id in thenaseives in theroossis houses cit is rema rhable that theserare ali a Lindi hermaphrodites, both male and se male. had a reat dea niore to sau on his subjeet, ut I ill leave sis,lest, a the proveri, says, ut os a sty, Imaould mahe an elephant.' his preti fabie of Musca is uicti in the Ovidiali style. A version o it into Latin hexameters ouldie no ad exercis for a school-bo of ast an genius P ould recom mend tu sonae of my brother esim insteses as a prope subjeci t try thei 1kill pon. postus, J See Olearius' Dissertation on the e male Poets of Greece. Trage γ. J What tragedian these lines are quote frona e no not. The commentator stys, Euripidem haec sapere videntur aut gives no reasonior it. Ο hagoras', b. Musca, o Myra, the aughter o Pythagoras by Theano was arri edto Milo the Crotonian On his passage of Lucian, Menage, in his Histor orae male Philosophers, has his note Lucianus, say he, in Muscae encomio addit multa de Musca Pythagorica hodie haec historia ignoratur. lliu of a F, P. To mali an elephant of a y was a vindis prove ib, probabi of the fame impori, and correspondent illi ou o nis Mahing mount alias of molehilis. V
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nus, o the samous ' Athenian that laborious author, Ver rote, of what service ould the possession of them beri you, ho no no more of theiriis and merit than ait in man does of his mist resi' beaut1 ou eadthem, indeed, illi ou eyes open, Nellis sonae a long time, an stimoverither ; ut that is nothing, uni est ovano the fauit anc perfectionso e very one uni esse o under stand what they mean o inculcate, in halsi lethey a re ritien, hic his re aith fully copi ed, hicli are genuine, and whicli a re purioUS.
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: Hol naeus and Hippocrene, sto ut be polluted by stachin hallowe liparasthine. But, bol and impudent a Sao are, ou can neve dare to asser that ouare a scholar, that ou ver culti valed an intimac with books that such aone Was our master, o such a man our school-fellore ali that ou an sayis that ou musti learned, ecause O have go Q many book : ut,
suppose ou haverat the work of Demosthenes, illi his Thucydides, eight times transcribe in his Ni hand supposie o have ali that Sylla sent
nahed in the sun like a common ave. Libaisitis. J Venus. So calle frona a temple dedicated o heri mount Libanus. Se a further explanation of this in Lucian' treatis o the Syrian Goddest. Holmeus and Hippocrene. J Fountains ea mount Parnassus. Se thetegi nning of Hesiod' Theogony.
Θ . The samous Roman generat, ho carrie to Rome the large librabis Apellico, wherein ere the work of Aristolle, Theophrastus, and many other eminent riters See Plutarchys lis of Sylla.
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than o urself, ut mere barbarians in literature, an equali deficient in knowlege and under stan ling, as it is mos probable tho se ill alway be, who no no frona vi lci and et ou, perhaps have only bought two or three book frona them, hicii they area and lini lay an dii glit, and
consequently musti much more learned than ou. For hat reason, then, an ou possibi γ' uy them, uni ess ou thinii that the very cases that contain the writ ing of so many celebra ted ancient musti inspire learning But an sine me, eg, Or, is o canno do that, give mea nod, or mali of the ead, o signis your assent o dissent to ha I mallas k ou Do ou reatly thinii, i a man whoane noth in of the sute, asto pus chale that hich Ismenias, o mi Timotheus ad and whicli e gave severa talent for at Corinth, that he would immediate lyrae able to play cilia pon. and sing t it, o that, ather, on the thera and the pos estion of twould eis no service toti molio a no stille in the artae re haud λthat si alie of the ea Lachno leges the laltera ei ther, flea ad neve learn .ed, ould e sing though he had go the pipe o Marsyas or Olympus. Had a maia the bore a d arrow of HercUles, and was ot a Philo stetes, couldi m ake se of them, or, i he id, couldae evertit the math, ouldhe perform the office of a hil sul archer What say ou ou hahe ourhead at this also. In like manner, ere e ho kno noth in os pilotingio purchas the osti ea uti fui es t and fit it ut, illi very thing, bothuse fui an ornamental; or, ere he who is quaily unskilled in id ing, to
these, nota nota initio to malae se of hat he had, e ver theletter
Umenias. J A famous player oti the flute, mentione by Plutarch, Xenophon, and other
Timollens. J For an accountis this amotas mussician, Preser the reade to the ingenious Dr. Burney's moi excellent und entertaining History of Music here e ill likeaeis meet illi sonteram using particulars, With regard o Marsyas uad Olympus. A Philocte es. Hercules, e re old, at his death on mount Hyllus, equeat hed to Philoctetes, a a testimon Ot his esteem, his horu an arrows Without the post ession of these, the Greeks ere in Ormed by an oracle, that Troy could neve be conquere On his subject was sol med the Philoctetes ot Sophocles See my translationi Sophocles, and the notes on Philoctetes. A Hamaphorian. Gr. Καππαφοῖο, i. e. a hors marked illi a appa or , burnedi on the thi glici horses thus ni aiked ere cottia ted the mos valvable the Median mares erelit erui se in illi, sieem. I Thessalian. Gr. Κενταυρι ην, de stirpe Centauri. The Centaur iubabite the moxintainsin ille eigh bourhood o Thessaly. The story of the Centaur is ellano vim; thei supposed deicendant must, do ubiles s have been creatures of extraordinary merit.
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for ito certain ly OG ou nod assent to it grant me then his also, hen aman, illiterat like rota, Uys a number of books, scit no oni laughinc thimself, an publisain his AEn ignorance and incapaci ty hy on 'tyo no at this the hin is quaily clear, and ver stander-by ill cryout in the sua style, ,hat has a ovi do illi a bath Not long ago, there asin ricli an in Asia, hora ad the missor tune tolose both his feet, hic h, in a j ourne through the no K, ere eat si lyexcessive old weather. Such as his miserable condition, hici, he eniteatavoured to et leve, by getling Tair of Wooden ones, hicii ere fas ened onto his legs, though he was, at the a me time, obliged tot carried abolit by his servants and et he was alWays ridiculous nough tot purchasaino ne and costly thoes, and too a great cali patias to have the finest, ooden feetae could procure. Ani a re not o do in the very fame thino , hohave a lanae and wooden minit, and et a re constant ly uttiniit into goldensanda is, hicli carce any one, hos Detrare ver si ell, an mali misi
A ridiculous, c. J Alluding to the character of Thersites, astara ni Homer in the second book of the Iliad.
Loquacious, bold, and turbulenti longi te,Aw'di no hame, by nores pedi controul'd, In scandalsiusy, in reproaches bold With witi malice, studioris to defame,
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along to the ut te di race, both of the o ne of the arnas, and the maheros lienis Andio not ou hin yo must look ullis ridiculous illi a sine book in your hand bound in purpie, With goiden osses, read incit in suci a man- ne as by our barbarous pronunciation ulteri to spoli and di uiserit, Whilst ver schola lata glis at ou, and only the natterer who are illi ou
commend, and even the turn to ne another, an mali ga me of ou be-
certain Tarentine, hos nam Was Evangelus, a mala fio mean birili, ad se his hear on gaining a victor there a he was no by nature formedeither sor strengili or rei finest he oon perceived that a contest in the Palaestra, as haliis abilities e re by o means equa to, ut thought hecould excet in singing and playing on the harp a belle which he had been
persuade into, by sonae lascali friendS, Who, heneve hei ut o uched the strings, were most lavisti in their encomtum onctim. He made his appea rance a Delphos, heresere, in great splendour, illi a crown o laurei, ali covere Nith gold, and emerald sprout in fron it, representing the ber-ries, and almost a large his harparui admirabie, both for iis ichnes and beau ty, was allis solid gold, adorned illi genas, and preci ousiones, withthe figures of Apollo, Orpheus, and the Mus es rought pon it the spectators gaged and wondered. At lenoth, heia the da os triat came on three candidates appeared, of
whicli Evangelus for so the tot had determined, Nas secon to per fornaciaster Thespis the Thebaia, hora ad acquit ted himself, illi sonae reputation, he niere the lisis, covere Nith gold, emeralds, beryls, an other eri eis, whicli et os f the beaut of his purpi garment : his struc the whole assem bly ith astonis liment, and ais ei thei expectations of his performa iace When o as Oon as elegan to play and sing, his firstrarohe was dissi,nantani in harmonio his, and heiroke three chord at once, b his violent loreson the harp, and then sun someth in s harsa and unmus - like, that hespectator immediate ly fell4-laughing, and the judges resenting the an 'signorance and audaci ty, command ed hi in t be hipped ut of the theatre.