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This is a familiar Leiter of Luci Aru's Io a particula Frie id but ho the Friendetuas me no nou givi him a curiores Descriptio os a sitIle Serpent calledih Dipsas, hic is found in the Deseris of Libya The Descriptio is livel and picture fixe and the complimentardi Turn a the End in the true Spirit ofLυ cIAN, and much the prettier for bei quite lineaepe Ied. THE outheria paris os Libya re nothinglutine immense plain or deseri, here the arti is burne up and qui te barren, Without grasse, plant, or ater po it in the ollo in of rocks, in deed, o may ome- time meet illi the rem nanis of a Jower, ut it is hick, and of so et id asmeli, that no an a di in os ita he ver so thir sty it is there re un- inhabited who, in deed, an live in a place hic licis for ver dry, arren, and stin king, here there re perpetuat vapours, and where the i is as holas sire, and the burninis and rende the whol counir impassabies the Garamantes alone, a sevage eople, Wh g thini clad, and live in tents are und there in inter time; heia the and is ardened by the alias, and thelieat a litile abat ed the Natch the se ason, and come tolunt ii asses, andostri ches thatly clos to the ground apes, and sonae times elephanis forthese of ali creatures an est en dure thirst, and the tortures of a burnino sunQ ut even these eopleae bac a fati a the can, a the a re ali ab sin ear est the o sand should, as it osten oes, put a stoi to theiriourney, catch them S it e re in amet, and totali destroy them noris here, o say the truth any possibilit os escaping, heia the sun dra vingui the moisture, and drying up very thin in a moment, ames out in althis fiercen est, an seem to hoo forti stronge rays, and to gather strengthfrom the moisture he has exhaled, hicli add mel to his fire. Dieadfui asthis drough and solitude, his an os very thin us fui an necesi ary, and these pestilentia vapours, are the a re stili eliso than wlia Lam going tomention, and hic alone might sussicienti deteris frona enter in into his inhospitable region Pand that is, the quantityis serpents with hic licit abound s; many of them os an immense si Ze, strange forms, an armex ith a moli deadi and destructive polson, sorne creeping on the sui face of the arth, and
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other hal burie in the any toads, asps, vipers, frammorns, arters, ' cantharides, amphisbenae, and dragon ; No species of scorpions, ne very large, illi feet, that at o the ground with a number of vertebrae in
the ait, the other stylia in the air, illi a membranous in os in likebaico grassii oppers; this hin dis bird render that par os Libya whichaheyfrequent almost impassabie. But o ali the noisonae creatures impregnated by the o sand the ostdre ad fulcis the Dipsas, a mali serpent like the viper, hici bites illi the
reat est violence, and leaves a thic k oison, hich no medicine an extirpate it ring on immediate putrefaction, an burn in suchis anne that the personii cries ut asci sic a in a re ut iis most terribi esse is that sensation rom heiace the creatur takes it : nam e the an rores thirst beyond ali conception, and whic is mos astonishing the more hedriniis, hecomes the more desirous o liquor, nor ould the whole Nile or Danube, i h could Mallo them, quenchiis hirst the water, lihelouring oil on re, ni in creases the di sorde r. The sons o physic account forthis by saying that he hic pol sontein dilute by the liquor, ecomes
liquid, moves illi greate veloci ty, and spread itfel more idely ver thebody. have neve seeu myself, orci ope Ver hall, any one unde this drea dii calamity, ases never, than heaven, Venture to et Oo in Libya, hut Phave hear of an inscription, hicli a friendis mine toti me he hadbread, o the tombis a man who perimed in his manner: he et illi it in his a to Egypt on a ourne to the reater Syrtis, o the se more, where a pilla Nas erected, illi figures allud ing to the anne of his eath. Engrave on it was a man standing, a the represent Tantalus on themore, endeavo uring to drin k; a dipsas reathe round his leg, and nearhim severat omen bringing ater an pouring it pon him no se offwere a number of ggs, supposed to e les by the ostri ches, hich, a Ibe re mentioned the Garamantes are se fond of huntinx beneat was the folio is in inscription, Thus Tantalus, of old, cou'die'er assuageo dreadfui thirst th unconquerable age;
Mamissorus. J Gr. κερασται. Hereri advis in reader to turn to the ninth book of Lucan spharsalia, here the will meet wit, me beauti fui lines on a simila subject.' Cantharides. Gr. vir is εις. Accordira tolli ny est animalculum ex cantharidum genere, called ,πρηςης, quod in herba a bobus devoratum eos ita inflammet ut rumpat.
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s that Uam assected in the sanae manner illi regar to ou, a those hoare bitte by the dipsas I have a perpetuat hirti upon me, and the ostener I come into our company the more de si rous L am Dit, and y droughtis unquenchab te Dior is ita tote ondere at for here malici meet illi suci a pure an translucent loodi ou ill pardon me, there fore, is, afterso Meet and whole me a bite, I oin m lip clos to the pring-head, and take a copio us draught. Neve may that ountaina dri exup, o leave methirstin for more is dona an knowlege DomJo ; of that ater a P rever drinta for, a the reat Plato long since observed of that hich strui beautii and good there is no satiety.
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THAT O a re undo abled ly the est os ali poets, and that ou received this gist, together illi the laurei, frona themuses, ouhave oursei fairi provexto us in oti Verses, here very thiniis trulyn oble and divine ; and wealve o credit forcit: ut there is ne thing Neare sui pri sed at, Lat, hereas ou have informe us that the god bestowed this on derful gi se ponoou that ou might sing of hat a fiast, and fore teli ha was to come, of these o have as et performe only one :the sirit, in deed, o have done to perfection, by reci ting the genealog of the gods, qui te ac to id Chaos, the arth, Heaven, and Love; ou have moreover, enUmera ted the Virtue Os omen, give us precept ofagri culture, an account of the Pleiades, of the times for sowing, harvest, navigation, an many the thingsci ut the alter, hicli, oubilest, mould have been much more serviceable to an kind, and a nobi gis of
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the ods, the prediction, I mean, o future evenis, o stem totali toliave orgo iten ; no do I remember, that in an par of our,orks, ouhave followed theraeps of Calchas, Telephus, Polyidus, o Phineus, ho, you knoN, eremo poets, and et e re able to divine, and alta ays ready togive an an Ke to tho se ho consul ted them abo ut futuri ty. Yota re table, there re to ne of the three folio K in accusations :ei ther, ril, ou have been uill o a false hood, hich, to e stare, is abiiter suspicion, in teli in xus that themus es ad besto ed his faculty ponyoia, hicli the have neve done ; or, se condi y the have gi ven it ouaecordin to their promisse, and yota frona mere rud gin and selsis linesse, with-hol the gist, and wili tot impar it to those ho land in need of it: or, third ly, and last ly, ou have ali eady rit tela a great many things of this kind, ut have ne ver et publis hed them, reservin ali heir prosit an dinstruction for I knowmo inhat distant time in the annals o futuri ty Oneo these must e the cases for I mould neve dare o suppos that the luses, aster a promise of No things, ould perform ne and revoke theother, speciali j a that o prophec stan is sirit in the verse. Whom, then, an e appl to for a solution of these dotabis ut our-self and a the god are the authors of every good, o scit the peculiardui of thei friend an servanis, lach as ou re, to teli ait ouanoruwith the strictes regar to truth, and i Ne ave any o ubi or scruples,to resolve them for 8. HESIOD.
I could ver east ans Ner ali ou question at o iace, by observino that every thing hic is se id in in verses a no dictate by me, ut by the Muses frona them alone, there fore, O are to as the reason, both forwhat is done an for Iulia is notione : ha I rote Dona my Nnano' lege, illi regard to the laeding, uarding milhing, and rivinio flocks. an other pastoral Tairs I am an Merable for myseis; ut the od demes have a right tot esto their ore favour On hona, and in hat proportion, the thin prope r. But, o mahe a poetical defence, it a sustice to say that obody en qui res, with scrupulous nicet and exactness, into the assertions o poets, nor expedis that every thing thessa mouldae liter ali triae nor is it fati , is in the warinth
Calebas, Telephus, O . Some of the most famous prophetam sters of antiqui . Auffors, O .J See Hesiod 's Theog. l. 6, and 633.
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must turn up the arth Atthis spade, and cove the se ed, o theatriis ills upon it, and devour ali the opes of ou risin harvex he who gives 3 ou suci, precepis, ill certaint be in the right; ut his is a very different thing rom divination, hich pries into obscuri ty, and an foretet halcis by no means pia in or eas to e discovere dci as heia it a predidi ed toMinos that his sonciliould e suffocate in a tubis honey when the cause of Apollo' anger a foreto id to the Grecians, and that Troy ould betaken in ten ear this I grant ou is divination; ut is halci mentionedi e re is to e called by that name, can e a prophe myseis for I will divine and foretet, and without Castali an ater, lauret, or Delphi tripod that is a man walh nahe in the old, hilst tua in and a iis, hestallie seiged illi a violent hi vering and whicli is more, onder fui, mallgro ver hol asterward thises could assert, illi a thous and ther uehthings, o ridiculous to mention.
Let us, there re, I beseech ou, have o more of this deserace, oro his divination: hat ou seid, indeed, at rst, e ma possit, ly admit, and alio that ouane nothing ourset about hat ou aiked of the verses
bet nidietatexto o by a divine inspiration; ut his is a Gor argument, ascit ili neve account forial themus es promise bei nisulfilled, and tho
2 posio' anger. J See Homer' Iliad, ix. 3. other, cs . The dialogue, hich was ust growing warm and lively, here end most abruptly, and is a convincing proof that this pieceris nothinibu a fragment timo or accident have stolen aWay the est oscit.
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TIMO LAUS. What, y good Lycinus, ould o have an id te an do, holad justineard that an immense hip was ustio anchor'. in the ' Piraeus, oneo thos that bring coria into Ital out of Egypt I illi hange is ouand Samippus id not come on the fame errand. LYCINUS. That, certain lyra id, and Adimantus followeyus; ut herede is noru know ot for e lost in in the croud: e came to the hi together, and when e goti board Samippus, I hin k, was rst, and ehin youwas Adimantus I foliori ed hina it m han in his Phad y hoe on,
A litti dramati piece, hichiore the same ille, appeare semeaears ago nisu stage, wherein the tu ect was andled with muel, wit an humour, rit ten, i Dam o mistahen, b the ver ingeniolis editor of the bet editionis Gray' Poems, r. R. Bentley. - i, istisci ne of the amous havens at Athens, ea the loruer ity, it ad three docks,five large porticos arioining t it, and a forum, o mari, to hicli merclianis resorte fromever portis Greece his harbour a burn by Sylla in the Mithridati War.
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ancient luxury, hicli,e borro ed frona therioni an s. LYCINUS. re member no here e est Adimantus, it Nas certaint in the his ,
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thi k ou of this stili is no it an immense thini the master tot us it was a undred and went cubit long and ab ove a fourth part a broad, and Dona the ighest par of the dec to the otio m of the in k, hi chris
the ore est part twenty-nine eep hat a prodigio us mas it has, hat asail. yarisit supporis, and what to dra it prand do Nn oK the pro Melis gradu ali into a circula forna, and carrie a goiden agi a the op at theother en rises the steria, and on ea chide, in just proportion, is a figure of the god des Isis, frona hom the stip akesae nam the ornaments paint-
struments the oom in the stern are ali orthy of the highest admiration thenumber of sallor in her may be compare to an army, and me is sat esto have brought cor en ough o supply the inhabitant of Attica D a hole ear; and yetine litile old manaoverias ali his illi a s mali pote, hichae gui desthe helm by a bald-pate fello the shewed hi in to me his a me, I hinh,