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Camarina. AHaheraea the cit os amarina, in Sicil in the time os drought the stenchof this lake produced a pestilenceu the inhabitant on this consulte the oracle hether theyshould drai it the oracle advised them μη κινον Καμαριιτιν, notri remove amarina, the PeOPl notwithstandinidrained the lahe, and by that means pene a a sor their nemies t comeandit unde thei city. ence the proverbiere allude to ne moveas amarinam do not uch or move amarina, that is, domo remove one evila bring on a greater Ichas, pretiynearly atteast a here applied the same senseras the motis to the Thistle os, Noli me tangere. Euripides. See Bacch. V. 38s.
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It was usomardi, in LUCI AN ' Time, for the Rhetoricians, or Orator bProfession, Io declaim, an give Subserit at the Command of thei Superiors, ειther in public or private an to this Ne ma attribule the ollamini Declamation, in Prase of som mus tetulos it vas e no nou probabist bDe re of the Maser and his Frien is besere ho the Orator a tos, his S ill bya extempore Spercyon the occasion. It is ritien, more speciali thes si Par of it, in a indis ing messured Prose, approachiet o lani Verse, and much resembling the Sule of Lord SH AFTAsBURY. The himscalchange of Persons, and Luci AN 's ans ei in himself in the lalter Pars of his littis iece, ne cannot suasit accolint for The hole, o ever, is gula, andenteriaining particulari the Description of the Pi Iures in the Concluson. I s-c1 AN for this iece is undouble es his , ad a Nar and poetica Imagination, an istem here more peculiari to indulge it I have heroore adopted his Syle, antendeasour'd Ioa euhe Translatio that is of poetica Colouriet hic the Readeris Tot cannot ait o observe and admire in rae Original.
SO delight sui id the charmin Cydnus appea to Alexander, iis stream
so bright and pleas ant, o refrestin in arao sum naer, though Mist notrapid, and though dee not angerous, that he could no refrain Dombath in incit, nor ould he en himself the pleaire, though e contracteda di sorde by indulgi nihimself in it an mali no the glit os a nobi pa-lace, beautis ut to the ye, light, chearii, an magnificent, mining ithgold, and adorned with the fines pictures, inspire a man especiali an oratori profession, to distinguissi himselfi s me descriptio oscit, soni en-comium on it, o mahe himself known and like his subject, oiecome conspicuous p way ith ali suci as ni look ove and admire ithout prat sing; tote silent is injurio usu i look like enu γ' and ill- nature it illaecomes thema of tasse, hocis smitte With the love of ali haesis great an beauti sui. It licius a stupid rustici ty, a distegar sor merit, an a contempti the Mus es thenaseives, nota know that the learne and the niearne considerspectacles of this ini in very different light : ne is contente to ook round and lift up the and with admiration to gaZe in silen cerat very
ihing, scis ahaid that ali the could se in prat se of it, ouldae les thanit
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it deserve dci hilst the other, horunde istand that beaut whichrae admires, is no satisfied illi east in his yes lone, anno bear tot a dumi spectator, ut ill en deavour, it ali his o ers, o describe and poliat out thebeauties of a sight o nobi an delightil. Nor is genera prat se alone lassicient: like that of the oung man, hos admired the palace of Menelaus, an compare iis ivor and gol to thebeauties of heaven, as he had seen nothing on earth that was equato ir The best way of praisiniit, is to exert our eloque iace in iis favour On the ver spol, and te re the mos appro vel judges an suret a beauti fulhouse, filled, illi admirer of the bui id in g, is the fittest place for suci an eno
comitam; here the voice, as in caverns, is rivera back, divelis on, ascit were, illi plea sure, and repeat what is seid in an elegant an nause- likeu
iteration ascit osten appens amongst theaigh and cragg rocks, here thelaund of the hepherd' piperis reverberate d. The vulga tellis, that Echois a nymph who inhabit there, and an Mers the inger frona her cave. Thesu edt, subilest, must animate an inspire the spea ker iis ea ut passes through the ye in to the oui, elevatin an adorning the discour se Thesight of the armour, ea noru stir redis Achilles against the Trojans, and when e trie themin, the gave ings to his courage, an rou sed hina tolli comba Anil mali not in like manner, the beaut of this place inspire an orator illi eloquence to sin iis pra i se The si ad of beauteous plane-trees, the green turf, and clea fountainst Ityssus, e re propitious toth great Socrates there porte hemith his Phaedrus, there confute Lysias, there invite themus es t folio him to his retreat, and teach inito talk of love nor id the old manatus to cali in virgins to assistat ni :surei then, to a pol so charmin a this, the wili come uia invited. We boarno here os mades and plane. trees ni Ilysius e leave farie-hindis, and even the palace of the Persi an monarch, hich was admirableoni forciis riches, without art, beau ty, o proportion; though aining ithgol and reaires, hicli the spectator beheld with nvy, and the masterwas deeme happyrio possessa ut ita ad noueat merit: the Arsacidae neverstudi ed the beauti fui, o cared whether the belloider a pleased and satis- sed the only, iste to ste him struch with astonissament for the Barbarians consultiner an me N much more than elegance and beau ty. ut his charming mansion is ill-sui texto Barbari an yes, o Persia pomp, o kingly
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pride it calloso the admirationi no vulgar spectator, ut of the aste suland ingenious, ii rellies notis his glit, ut o his udgment i looks oKard the early whicli is, oubiless, the o beauti sui par of the day,
and fronis the rising in receivingrat iis ope doors an abundance of ight. Thus the ancient alway bulli thei temples The tength, re ad th, and height of the pari ments are constructed in due an regula proportio :the indoius large, and disposed according to the Various ea sons of the ear, ali admirabi contrived both sor pleas ure an convenience in the ciet ingare o superfluous ornamenis, noth in ca be Dund fauit illi the goldand decorations, no heape on, ut sed illi judgmen an discretion. Like a beauti sul ut modest Noman who et of her charms illi a mali nec hiace, a preti ring onae finger, or ear-ring in her ars, a fili et to bindher flowing hair, o a buckle to astenter oneri these ad grace to the form, a purpi e to a garment: hilst hariois, speciali is the are notive hand-sonae, illi ave thei garment ali purple, an necklacerat mi t heightenthei charnas endeavouring to suppi thei Want f beaut by something exter
nat, that may attradi and delight the th in that arm umbe thought white, that is overed with goly and that the oot, hi chris no se et made, maybe wel concealed by a golde stipper; and that the face it self, ill appearmore agree able, is heir hole dres is splendi an magnificent. They al-ways, heresore, ador thenaseives in his manner; ut the modest an deli cate atrine, mahes se ni o so much gol and e eis a is necessar and lassicient, nor,il meatum to sae heraea ut naked an unadorned. In like manner, this house, hicli is beauti fui in iself, has ni Q much ornament a is necessar and ecoming, interspersed here and there as thestar appea in the eavens at prope distances, forci the whole asine blage of light, it ould noti pleasing, ut terribierio us eve so the goldhere is no superfluous, or ut o meret for he and nery, ut hines with a sos and pleasin splendour, diffusing a red nesse ver the whole foris hen the light strikes in pon the gold the colour blen together, and folii a Lindis doubie day The uppe paris of this palace, a re suci, in-deed, a cali for the pen o Homer o describe them; he perhaps, ould say, Wit a tosty - like the bed of Helen or like Olympus splendi d. The picturos o the walis, and the ther ornamenis, the beaut of the
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colours, with the truth, accuracy, and judgmen conspicuous throughout, might perhaps, e properi compared to the fir si appe arance of the sprinno a mead diversifie with flowers, inere it not that these oon sede and decay, whil this ous is a perpetuat pring, an evertastin flower that neversedes o decays the ght alone est on iis Aeets, ut cannot defit o destro them. Who canaeli dinet lingis such beauties'ith rapture, and en deavouringetocelebrate them a the deserves for that which, see, it is a di racemo toimitate; the ght of hat is trul excellent, bring with it a thousand incitem enis to the praetice of equa perfection, o in man alone, ut in very creature. The orse bound wit more leasure ver the of pla in thalyield suo his foot, nor resist his pressin hoof the does h put forti allhis strength, runs Misely on, and vi es, ascit ere, illi the arti, e readson, in beaut an perfection. In the early par of pring, hen the mea-dorus areareen, and the sower appea in their rightest colours the ea-cock spread his ings to the sun bri siles u his ait, displays his floruersalso, and stem to rival the fie id in beau ty he struis round an round admirinitiis own splendour, hiis the light changes the colours, and rea ks them into various tinis that blend with, and succeed acti thera ab ove ait, in thos beauti fui circles hicli rise at the extremit of his body, and represent the ainbo in very one of them the ea change of sit uation turn sit, bras into gold, o gives the purple, heia maded DOm the sun a greenim livea a the light varies, the eat hers are varie also. Hore doth the ea, when it is smooth and caim, attrae an invite he who has neve beenseo land and knows nothingis sat ling, Misae to ge o board, o quit thestore, and launcti in to the oceanu speciali, i he stes the satis filled by propitio us ales, and the esset, With a sos and eas motion, gliding through
Thus also, must the beaut of this hous animate an inspire ver Orator Who ould ista to celebrate and describe it for that purpos came Phither, attracted a it ere, by a Syren' voice, an diat tering myself, that hoWeve rude in speech hath hitherio been on such a subject it ili appea excellent thus cloathed, it musti hand me. Butes a interrupte an contradicted, it laenas, hy another orator, apowersu one oo, ho says, Lam rota in afferting that the beaut of the
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with superior eloquence so that the contrar to this might osten appen :biit et him si ea sor himself, and prove, fine can, that the wors and more contemptibi the placeris, the belle it ouldie for the orator Asrio my-self, ou have eard hat Psaid, and I need not repeat it shali e silent, there re, and give place o him sor a While, et hina come orth and give 3 ou his opinion. Thus, then, elegins :The orater, oble ud ges, ho latet addressed ou has expatiated arge-
the more agree able heiath been the more aston ista iniit is, and contrar toti ha might have been expected Andrarst, a he has mentioned the orna menis,hicli omen make se of their gol and erit eis, permit mea in aheth sanae comparison Las eri, that they Otini neve appea the handsomersor them, ut that, o the ther and me are so structa it the finery, that instead of admiring thei fine yes, complection, necks arnas, o fingers, the neglect them, and oni look at the ne chlace, the emerald, o the corianelian insomuch, that the air ne has reason to b angry illi her resis,
se preventing the spectator stomarai sin and ad miringier. An the fame, Pthinh, must at ways happen to him, ho ould me his eloquenc amongst great an magnificent objects Whateverae says, is tost, Mallowed up and obscured it is like throwing a candie in to therare, o fhewing a pismire be- fore a camelis an elephant an orator, there re, stould avolsit. Add tot his, that the voice si uri ed in a large and sonorous bullding, hici reverberates thes und beat ita ac o the speaker, or, ather, is entiret lostand con unded, a the sute ouldae by the rumpet, is the ' er playedon at the sanae time o the pilot' sola by the waves of the ea. Thatthe speaker ouldie animate an inspired by the beaut of the house, sm opponent maintained is in m opinion, false an absurd the direct contrar is true: for it ould ni alarna, an intimidate hina, he hecam to consider hat a disgra cecit urbe to im is, in sicli a place the
Thas then, α There is no way of accountinisor his sudde an unexpected change of persons, uti supposita that the orator, o these occations, O saeI his dexterity, after artuis ing on one fide, took up the Other, o convince his audience that, as Hudibras says, e Cou'd stili change fides, and stili confute. Lucian, oKever, Pon quitte the Dolissi occupation o a rhetorician, and turned his genius toruards uehat mani satire for hich he was asterivard se eminenti distinguished.
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m erit finis oration id not an Me to the dignit of the subject hi Dulis
would then e ut the more conspicuous like a maia in beauti fui armo ursyingie re the enem y, hos coWardice, O that Ver account, ould emore alien notice of his Momer' great orator see me convincedis who attende no in the least to externat beau ty, ut even assume the charaister of the mos ignorant an inskilful of men that hat heriai mi hi appea more orti, o admiration The spea ker, moreover, cannot hi in sel refrain frona admiring the spectacle, hici must prevent his attention to the discourse; and wheia thus employed, o cancit therini se appen, ut
the compan is more generali inclinessit se than to hear no a Demodocus, a Phemius, o a Thamyris, O nor Ven an Orpheus o Amphion, would have eloquence nough to dra aside thei attention to the spectacle,
orator ait about the ea coch, certa in ly favour m argument, an dio his,
' An op tis. J It is remarhable that in the Areopagus, o gran Athenian cottit of justice, the udges hear an determine ali causes at night, an in the dark, to the end says Pottertha hau in nei ther feen the plaintiis nor defendant, the might lay under no temptation o be-ingitasse or influenced by them Though the custom is himsical, there is omethin right in the cause here iligne for it By the sanae methodis rea ning a modern justice of peacessiould bellind. Those, o ever, amongi us wh are acquainte With the true character of the present Si Johia Fielding, have a much etter ea n than his for admirin him, asthe wil nor perhaps sn in an other magistrate, ancient or modern, an equa degree of penetration an sagaci ty, joine to much honou and integri ty.
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testimon sor me that things see mare much more powersul tha things heard. Crier, cali in Herodotus and here heris, et hi minand forti and give his eviden ce he will tal to ou ac his custom is, in his own Ioni dialeel. Thus it runs, What he has se id , O ud ges, is true, and o may be-lieve hini,henae asseris that the ght is preserable to the hearing for theeye is alway lesi faith fu than the ear. V , Yo hear ha the witnes says, and it is certaini true, for Ord have ings, the si offla Mon a theyco me sortii, an Darei more; ut the pleas ure arising rom Rhat esse is soli and permanent: mus no then a palac like his, o beauti fui, and soalturin g, agZle an consoland the speaker and of this ou re ourselves the stronge proof for hiis I have been speaking, ou ere ali employed in admiring the structure, gazing at the OOL an turning ou eyes O-ward ever picture normeed ouae astia me oscit: e must excuse ou; am id st suci, a variet o beauties, Dyo have an Deling, it is navo i dabie,sor the workmans hi is excellent, Histor and Antiquit unite thei charmsto allure ou, and demand attention rom ver spectator of taste and judg-
lours, o display an illustrate suci a variet of charminii mages this palntingi word is ea an in adequate. Q Observe then, as omenter o the right hand adiece of Gree and Ethiopia histor Perseus saying the monster, and reeing Andromache, whom he asterward marries in another par is represente his stight to the Gorgong the artistinath contrived in a mali pies ure to exhibit a variet os objects. The ea an modest of the virgin, ho vertooks the contest stoma high roch, the bold enterprige of the lover, and the terribi appearance of
' his his hasfairi Uri See Herodot. lib. viii. p. 3. mordi, Ese. Homer frequently calis them πεα δερογεντα, inge Words. Ob risiben, 'e. Most of the pictures here describe stem to stet no inconsiderable mare of taste and genius in the compositio of thema o the were executed e cannot ponsabi teli, ut by the groupingrat the figures, and the anne os teli in the fabie, e ma beas ured that the artis patiatin had, in Lucian' time, attainexto reat persection. Some illi subjects are perhaps, orthy the consideratio of our ingenious modern artisti.
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393. the dragon, illi readfui scales, and a s a Ping wide, and has in taponhim. Perseus hold the Gorgon hieli in his est anil, and in his right asinord, illi hich e terces ne de of the monster, hiis the ther whicli is opposite o Medusa, is turn ed into tone. Beyond this o se another picture expressive of the divine justides the subjecti it stem to have been borrori ed by the a inter frona Sophocles
o Euripides, who describe the circumstanc in a manne very simila to t. TXo ouilis, Pylades the Phocian, and Orestes his friend suppo sed to have been dead sonae time, hi de them selve in the palace, and a re represented in the actis illing Egysthus Clytemnestra, at ready satia, lies on the beahal Lna ked the servant are standing round in the ut most confusion sonae ascrying ut, ther looking round o see bicli a the cata es cape thepa inter has, illi great judgment, he n ora ly hat ought to e saetan, and passe dive the representation of hat ad been e fore commiticies describ- ingrand welling on the murther of the adulterer. Nex to these o ma observe beauti fui god, and actan is me o tangm an the picture is a Lindis love tale. Branchus sis pon a rock, with aliare in his hand which he olds ut to a dog, ho is ea ping up at it Apollo fland by, and seem delighte to se theto playing illi the hare, and the dog tryingeto calch it Dona hi m. In another picture is Perseus again, illi the dragon, Medusa's eadcut o T, and Minerva defending the hero h does no look, hilli heperform the deed, on Medusa, excepi by the resection rom his hie id, a Nel knowing o dea it ould cost hina torax his yes directi, ui: On
In the id die of the wall, opposite to the oor, is the temple o Minerva, with a statue of the goddes in hi te mari, te no in a Narlike habit, but in agari, sui table to a martiat deity aking Peace. Nex to this is nother Minerva no a statue, ut a picture Vulcan is describe lis a love in ursui of her sine illes frona his e re to attribute
Erichthonius. In ilia colluctatione, say the pious Lactantius Vulcanum profudisse alui it
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Beyon this is a very ancient iece, Orionalind carrying Cedalion, who heres him the way to the light the Suia rising cures himio hi salinu- ne si Vulcan sees the hole frona Lemnos. An no comesa Ulysse se igning adness, to excus himsel Domino ing on the expedition illi the Atridae the ambasiadors re invitin him, his excuse is plausibie, his chariot, his horses of different colours, his pretended ignorance of very th in to e done; ut the o discovers him. Palamedes, under standi nitio the assat was, naiches a Na Telemachus, Digns himself in a violent age, draius his Mord, and threatens to kill him. Ulysse is alarme and terrifled, drops his dissemble character, ut o thesether, and is restorexto his senses immediately.
Omon. The sonis Neptuneu he is represented a a giant, an is Did o have fallen in love illi Merope, of the standis Chios, hos fallier, Oenopion disti Ling the malch, contrived, licia he was rurali, o put out his yes, and leaveaim On the se niore, here meet-
ing with a tarmer' boy, he oo hi in on his mouiderς by way of guide to condus him to the place here the sun rises; hicli, the stor adds, perfecti recovered his sight, and gaveaim the opportunit os revengin himseli in Oenopion This accounts for the additiones tale of his intrigiae illi Aurora, and the ealous of Diana, a mentionedi Homer. Ultios. This stor is to wellanown to ruant an illustrationa it is a very good subject sora picture, anda Nould recommend it to that ingenious classicaliainter Signora Angelica Kaaman.