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This Evangelus, my good Die nil resembles ou ex aetly for Ou me vermi in belli laughed a by the spectators. An now, -propos, ill teli ou an old Lesbian ory. When the Thracian omen tore Orpheus in ieces, his head they teli us, soate Don his lyre down the Hebrus in to theia os Mela, singing a melancholy dii ge, whicli the lyre, a the wind wellei it choriis, accompani ed, and in his manne drove to Lesbos, here the natives buri ed the head in the place, hereth temple o Bacchus no stantis. The lyre was hung p in the temple of Apollo, anxit rema ined here or a long time sonae hil aster, Neanthus, the so os in Pittacus, hau in heard that this a me lyre could thoughOrpheus a dead move, like him, planis, Ones, and animais, and even, when obody ouche it, seni forti mos delight fui ound s resolve toget possession of it, an accordingly bribe the pri est Kith a large sum os money to stea it ut of the temple for hi m. When he hadio this invaluabie reaire, o thinhiniit sese to make se of it in the public ity, heput it in his bos in Uent uti night into a private place a sonae distance, and there the oung man who as totalty ignorant of music, egan tostrike the choriis, oping, no do ubi that his lyre ouldoield suci divine Dund a must charna very ear, and that he laould e theraeir of Orpheus: when bellol l a multitude of Ogs for there e re many of them in thalneighbourhood, attracte by the noisse, o together, lanx tores him in places:
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pi edes thus, and thus ni di he resemble Orpheus a melancholy proos that it a no the lyre hicli, a se persuasive, ut therari and kill of thenaaster lio played on it, and whichae in heri te frona his ' mollier the instrument iis et wasio belle than hos o others. But hy nee M tal to ouis Orpheus and Neanthus, heia in uriwn times there lived and perhaps stili lives), a man ho gave three thous and drachmas for the arthen lana that be longed to Epictetus the Stoic, satis-ὰ sed, o doubi that frae read ver might by that lami , he hould in herit his is dona, and oon'eco me a rival of that admirabie old philosopher. Another, ut a se days ago, bought for a talent, the stasT Peregrinus, hic hae est belli nil him hen e leape into the re thi heheeps by him, and me K about a thea Tegarans the scin of the Caledonian boar, the Thebans the bones of Geryon, o the AEgyptians the air ofi Isis. The master, in the mea time, of this on derfui rea sure is superior even to ou in impudence an ignorance 'o both deserve the stafrip-
Dionysius the tyran is Did o have rote severa tragedies, allios and miserable stuff, hic hioo 4 Philoxenus a severet punished for laughingat, and hearing that he had been ridiculexo account of them, helurchased the tableis hicli schylus sed to rite in no doubtinga ut that Domitia time forti he hould e inspiret with the rue poetical fury but un-sortunately, after the possessioni them, e rote stili, ors than vera it nes his Doric de that begitas, hen a me the wiis of Dionysius,' andus in indis a simila pali age in Shakspeare' Julius Caesar, here the ob in pursui os Cinna the conspirator, light y mistakein the ther Cinna, lio, o save iniself, ries ut Iam Cinna the poet, ' and one os them humorouil repties, ea hi in to pieces sorii bad
His mother. J orpheus is suid o have been the so of the mus Calliope. Peregrinus. J See Lucian' Deathis Peregrinus. The Te eans. Tegaea a toruui Arcadia, celebrate for the exploits of the Caledonian boar, illed by Meleager, hos stor is so finely toldi Ovid. Pausanias, in his Arcad confirm the assertionis Lucian, and telis us ver gravely that the Linii the Caledonian boarcis stili here, though the hair istis, and the Lin dri exupi time. Ger The amotis glant illi three odies, laini Hercules. I s. The reat AEgypti an dividity, aughter of Saturn an Rhea, and wi se of Osiris. I would give m reader the whole histor of this goddess, he wor ip, c. ut ascit,ould take up tivo o three hundred pages, hi chris more thanes have o pare, I hope the will ex
. Philoxeuus. The lior o Philoxenus is tota at larget Diodorus Sicut book xv.
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his diti of Alas o charmin a partiae have I losti these erewritten in the tablets), and that iece of his, here hi stys, Foolis mortal deceive them se lues,V hicli, inde ed, e eem to have evellet at ou, and sor his alone his tabi et deserve gil ling. What ou an ope to et rom book I cannot conccive, and et ouare always Oring Ver them for ver, tying, in ling, iling, and a singandi reserving them illi cedar and DTron, ascis o could reai an ad vantage romahem o as i book could te acti ou to b eloquent, though ouare stili as ut as a fissici as o ou life it is to the last egre impio us and abominabie, an is books ake ou hat ou are the a re sui ely o all
There rei ut two things hich a maia an earn Do m the study of the ancients, o spea an to do halcis right to e ambitious of good an dighom evit; and DK gaini ei ther of these, hat se an book be os, ut tofin employment for mice, Torya habitation or mollis, o get Oor servant beat formo taking care of them λ
like Bellerophon pWhen Demetrius the Cynic, dein gran illiterat fello N ith a book in his hand, and read in that ea uti fui passage of the ' Bacchae o Euripides,
where the messen ger recounts the stoi o Pentheus an Agave, he nalchedit out of his hand, and ore it pieces, saying, est is et ter for Pentheus tobe destroyed at iacet me, than tot perpetuali tori in pie es by ou.' Osten haveci cast abo ut in my minxsor a reason, ut neve could y et findi Laeehis. J See the Bacchaeis Euripides, . Io I. Ofie bale o. The reade cannot ut observe that in his litti tra there is too much redundanc an repetitio of the fame sentiments a fauit hicli Lucian is ometimes uili os but Dan author Wil repeat, the translator is bound in hono u to res ea after him thegreat lord hesterfield, however has done the lamen is the repetitions Nere take out his four volumes of letters o his son might be reduce tori o.
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i able hiis the y like so many thii sty rogs, croa out Our prat ses, and catino di in k ill they burit illi acclamations it is no Conder o a re Hed by the nosse, and belleve very th in they say, When, o long ago, theypersuaded ou that 3 ou ere like thea emperor and e re ora, eanoue, there a a salse Alexander, a laam l Philip and in the memory of ursathers, a retende 4 Nero, and many the impostors of the fame kindcinor mould I be surpi ised ii suci a oolis illiterat fello; a Dyo sto uidiendliis nec on one fide, and minii the walli and habit of him hona, as ousaiter oui self, ou so early resemble; heia Ven Pyrrhus the Epirot a man
A false Alexander. The oung man, hom Justi calis sortis extremae juvenis, ho unde preteiice of eing the son o Antiochus Epiphanes, demande of Demetrius Soter the Lingdom of Syria agiis inherit ance, and wen to War ithaim for it See Justin. c. xxv. Sham Philis. J Adramyttenus Andriscus, quem in fullonio natum, as Ammianus Marcel. telisis sortuna mutabilis ad Pseudo-Philippi nomen evexit. See Ammian, book xiv. c. 9. Vel leius Paterculus Dys, regium nomen animo quoque regio implevit.
ι Nero. Casaubon, in his notes on the lis of Nero b Suetonius, speak of three impostorsirho had assumed that nanae.
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in allisther respect trul admirabie, a si corrupted by salterer a to imagine himself the ver picture of Alexander, though they ivere in reali ty assar homine nother a the most distant ' notes in music an possit, lyieci forI have een a rawing o Pyrrhus and j et he imagine I himself the ex aetcopy of Alexander thus a Pliave injure hi mi compar in him o ou but illi regarii to the folio vin circumstance, the likenes Nili hold ood. When Pyrrhus ad iace brought imself to belle ve his, there a tot acreature bout him ut readit accede do his opinion, and en flami d the distemper, ill an id om an os Larissa cured in os ita for, as he was os edaue meae in her the pictures of Philip Perdiccas AleXander, Cassander, and severat other great men, he asted he wh he was mos like, o do ubi- in but that sae ould ani Ner Alexander P hen, after considering a good inhile, siue replied he was extremel like Batrachion, the coota: and thetruth as, sicli a man id actuali live in the ity at that time, homPyrrhus greatly resembled. ill tot say hicli of our parasites ouare most like, ut his Ianow, that very bod thin ks ou ad sor pretendindito e the image of certain Deribi : ou musti a bad judge of liken esses, in deed, o give credit to atterer in his poliat; tu a te serious, Iano N Our true reason eli en Ough, though I a to lag to mention ille reicit is his: ou wisely este led, and rom the nce have formedia litile expectations that the emperor is a manis sense, and olds earnino in the greatest elle em Joha thought, there fore, o do ubi that is heli cardyou had bought a great umber of books, ou might OOn ope to get everything ou lea sed of him. And an ou suppos him so in toxica ted illi mandragora, as hen heliears his of ou that he is no a the s i me time aequa in te is it hyota manner o living, ou dat ly revelf, and our nighil debauche. Dono 1 oua nota thalaing have many ye and an ear S, and that mur actions are so very open that even the deas an bl in Dare no stranger to them
t Certain perfon. The empero M. Aurelius, a be re alluded to. Mandragora. O mandi ake, a plant of a strong narcotic quali ty, probabi in frequent se amongst the ancients, who, perhaps, too it a the modern Turks do optum, the effect ofishicli are imitar, as it produces a Lindis drunkennes and lupidi ty. Our grea dramatist mentions it a Diopori sic, Fot poppy, O mandragora,
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You have two lea ling passiong one or bub in dear books, and the othersor purcha sing otinis aves an parasites it is impossit, te illi our mali fortune to indulge them both a litile good ad vice in his case may be of the ut most service to ou et me persuade ou to qui that folly, hich does nolint alliecome you, and applyJourset entiret to the ther inste ad fit aves and sycophanis purchase, Deve so dear, reemen, ho illisor like common servanis, teli every thing that happens aftera ou debauches, a theliario did the ther ab , ho discovere certain iniquitous praetices, and brought proos and witia esses of t. eepycur money, y good frien d forthis purpose, that o may ence forti play the lao in sesely neve trustitiose noN about ou for the dog that is sed , o gnare carrion ill neverleave it oss.
Parasite. Greeli κισοειδον, cinaedum.-The transation is no strictly ust, ut the reason .
true and exactis of the Latin interpreter translatescit mangonibus. The moli natural sense, and most agreeable to the contextris that whicli Phave adopted os a broher, o factor, a personuiopointed obu and sell, and do busines soriis principat.
Ut canis a corio nunquam absterrebitur uncto. Hor. lib. ii Sat. s. l. 83.
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A to easing to bu books, noth in ca be more asy; ou are earn edenough already, and have isdom lassicient; have ali the ancients at our
, .hisesb. In this oration, hicli is stili extant, the reader ill find Lucian sueason sorpointing ut that particula partos Eschines s orks, totis Illiterate Book-Hunter.' Eupolis. A famous comi poet, mentioned by Horace and thers, hos Works are not
Bapta. J The nam os oneos Eupolis' comedi es, probabi the priest mentioned by Iuvenal, Cecropiam soliti Baptae lassare Cotytto. Sat. i. v. a. Is the reade is desii rous of in farther acquainted illi them, Linould refertim to the pas
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no se of them, and stili e laughed a b men o letters, ho aliae themno sor thei externat beau ty, hat they cost, ut so the merit and genius of the writer. Arad et, o thin k, that our ignorance naustae concealed, and that me in ill have actigi opinionis ou, rom the multiplici tym 3 ou books no percei ving that in his oti resemble hos un-stiis ut physicians, ho have sine vor chest for thei medicines, cuppinginstruments ad os silver, and laxa iacet lippei Gith gold, though hey dono know o to malle se of them 'hil si an undet standing man, illi arusty case of instruments fiat tali out a laari lautacet, and cur the patient immediately. Or ather, o fuit ou bet ter illi a more ridiculous comparison, observe the barbers, and Ou ill perceive that the est artist among them have a common a Zor, and a moderate sZed looking-glassi; hilst thebunglers, and those ho know ut litile of thei trade, produce a multitudeo instruments and immense specula, though these re generalty ignorant of thei busin ess and et it is the custom, hich olis enough, forieopleuo go to the ne tot saaved, and to the ther illi the large glasies, toliave thei ha trione. In like manner, Ou might lenit ou books to others, though o do notano horu to malle se of them ourseis: ut even hisyota ill neve do, for o are like the do in the anger, ei theriat our-self, nor let the hors do t. Thus lares haveai ven o in opinion illi regard o ou book only;yout lila and conversationia alli reservexsor another opportunitJ .
C ping, c. LGr. Σικυιας αργυρας. The cucurbita, or cuppin instrument, made use of by the ancients, a generalty of brassi horn the modern make muchaeiter of glast.
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might si fel pascit si in the Pulpit, perhaps, et thout bet et suspected os Plagiari 1;
mo e disi potnted at o meeling ith a large Fund of Wi and Humour, milibe made me id by the mans judiciores sedllans, livet Images, an sensibis I lusi attons, ibat re interspersed raro h ver Partis fit. IGNORANCE is undoubted ly one of the greates evit incident to an
hind, and the fouice of innumerable missortunes 4 spread alind of perpetuat darknes roundis, obscures the lustre os truth, and cast a made overthe lives of men it forces us to an de abo ut like the blinit, stili falli ingstior of the mark, o goingieyon it, o see in What lies at Ur feet anil, at the fame time, and in in ear of that, a fullis anger, hicli is a thegreatest distance rom M it is his hicli akes sinum bie in very thingw dou this has furniihed arguments for the stage-writers, at very period of time, fori Labdacus, thelous of Pelops and the rest. Ignorance is the daemonthat filis the tragic scenea iis essedis, illi regarit to every thing, a re read fulcit, ut, bove ali , he we confidei it a the cause of calumn and false-Witnessagainst ou frientis an acquaintance, by hicli hole families have been ruin ed, cities la id aste, ather dri ven to adnes against thei child ren, and child re against thei parenis, rother against brother, and usi, and against wi se hous es have been throtan into confusion an friendiu ips tornas under, by the speciosis testimony of evil- spe atting. The better, heres ore, to prevent hos fatal consequences, I propose, in the folio King tractoto sae N hat calumn is, heiace it aris eth, and ho it
Labdacis, si honse, si e Polludin to ille ories of Oedipus an his sons. Atreus Thyestes, o so requently and vari ocul trealed by the Gree tragedians.
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adi Apelles thes Ephesiali ath drarin his picture e re me hoe wasurius ly accuse of bearin a par in the conspirac Rhicli Theodotus ad formed against ' Ptolem a Tyre, though he had neve been a Tyre, orkne; any thing ofa Theodotus, a ny more than that he was a commander unde Ptolemy, andi ad the care of Phoenicia ent ruste to him. ne Anti philus, a rival artist, ho enui ediim, both so the excellene of hisiainting, and the elleem in hich he was hel by the king, ad it laenas, informed Ptolemy that he wa priv to the transaction, that a persona ad seen him at supper illi Theodotus and Phaenice, and in close conserence illi hi during the whole lateriain ment, and that in hori, the defectionis Tyre, and the taking o Pelusium, ere both o in to the counse and assistance of Apelles Ptolem) , a man in ther res pedis not ver- ise, an nursed pshom his infanc by that adulation hicli is generali besto ed on tyranis, was o orked pon by this improbabie an absurd calum ny that, never insidering with in himself, that the accuser Nas ne of his rivals, o ho impossibi it was for a pooria inter o suppor such a conspiracyG speciali onewhom he had so hi ghi favo ured and preferre to ali of his profession without even o much asinquiring hether Apelle had eve been a Tyre, rerus exasperated a tolli the whole palace illi complaints of his ingratitude, callin him a ratior an conspirator inso much, that i fine of those howere taken prat the sanae time, structa it compassion o Apelles, and detesting the impudent falsehood of Antiphilus, adiso declared that he hadno concer incit, he would probab ly, have lost his head, and aid, im-self the price of Tyrian pessur and falsehood Ptolem is sat s severelyto have repented of his credulity, as to mahe Apelles a presentis, hundrediatenis, an to have give Antiphilus to hi as a lave Apelles, hocionghore in in the dange he had been in revenge the calumn against him by D picture hicli I saali here describe t you.
The Dbesiau. J Not that Apelles hoclived in the time of Alexander, ut a native of Colo-Phon, an Ephesitani adoption, and discipleis Pamphilus. Piois Philopater, the soni Euergetes, and the laurili of that naine ho was hin of Egypto Theodorus. J The Et otian whoaetraye Ptolemy, and deli veredip the cit os Tyre to Antigor, uti The stor is tot a large by Polybius, . . Picture. J his allegorical picture, as describeda Lucian, Oem to have great merit,ithregard to the design and compositionci a lachra would recommensit to the considerationis our
modern Apelles, in ingenious friendvir Benjamin West, hoci capable of doing justiceto sueba subject, and Would execute it finely.