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your troops round by Sus o Bactria, an uni uch arro may cach sonae Par that is uncovered, and mahe an end of me.
the Bactrians, and those relio inhabit ea thes Caspian ea ere mot et come Uin s many thousands, o ever, ithout these has e collected to-getherint in the eighbourhood of the ity it belloves Us there re, myfriends, o ook about us, and se What suo be done immediate ly. ADIMANTUS.
' Anι afer. J Alludi nito the histor of Alexander the reat, ho, hen hessalle to thel ellespont, est his genera Antipater asinis vi cegerent in Europe, Vo L. II. ' Dici
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comes pon Our right ingr no , Lycinus, e a mala, and prepare our forces for the onset. LYCINUS. How nfortunate the whole cavair coming on, and nobody orth their
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Timolaus' turn to give us his is h. SAMIPPUS.
Bounds. J i. e. our isti is ather o long and ou have petit more time in recitiniit,
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the wee ping monarch, Without paying the least respeet to his diadem Thugcast down rom Jour elavi ed height, and dethroned, o area the fame path, illi the lowest lave, and ait o leave bellindris a magnificent tonab aproud columia, or a tofi pyramid the last PQO triumphis vat man whocannot et o it hos statues an temples hicli are aised the mightyname hicli is acquired, oulde aria quickly, and arem more or isthey remain eve so long What Prosit is it to those ho an no longe besensibi of them ou see mydriend what totis, anxiety, and solicitude would o through hi laeti ving, and What ou ould have to expetit after death. An noru Timolaus, it Myour turn to forna amissa, superior, Pliope, totheir 'ς, and suci a ne a may be expected rom a prudent an sensibi man
and empires, hicli ou have so deservedi condemned Passure ou, I halino as fora the are ali orthles and insignificant, regnant With fears and dangers, and there is more uiaeasines an dis quietude than o or pleas ure
GH o. A simpletate ei dis Lydia, ho by means os, in Whicli rendere him invisibi e debauched the wis of Candaules the foverei gnos Lydia, and go possession os his Lingdom. The stor is told a large by Tully, after Plato, in the third book of his ossices.
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pleasure hic hes have in augh ingrat the ridiculous issae madet lac a se of is philosophers.
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This Lelter contains Aut os a ver extraordinar Character, ho gured in themime of Luc IAN , it is supported by the concurrent Testimon offueral contemporar Authors, bolis Chrisiau an mathen. The Singularit ofuis Imposio, 's Exit, ira the Circumstances attendis it mus naturaldi, inised, have attracted universa Notice, and wast servemithaluo convince tis that there is nothing, ho eve absurri or unaccountable, hic Ambition anno die tale, and the Love of Fame render Me capabis of performing. Luci an to Cronius istes health. TH unsortunate Peregrinus, o Proteus for so e tways hos tostyle himself , has a tength et illi the late of his ame-sahe in Homer for, after taking a thousand mapes, he is at ast turne into fire such was his insatiabie hirs after lory. es, in friend this firs and
greatest of men is reduce to a cinder, follo ing the ex ample of Empedocles; illi his differen ce only that he eemed ather illinxto conceat himself Dona the yes of men, henae thre himself in to the flames, hi litour nobi hero hos the mos public festivat, uili a magnificent funeral- pile, an leaped in belare innumerable it nesses, after haranguing the rectans, and acquainting them illi his intention sonae day before the cerem Ony. Homer. J Alludi tanto his desci iptioni Proteus, Instant he wears elusive of the rape, The mimie force of eu'r savagema ape, O glides illi liquid lapse a murm'rinistream,or rapi in flame, he glori sint ev'r limb. See Pope' Homer's dysey book v. l. 563. Empe)Doles. J The Dinous philosopher of Agrigentum, in Sicily, a Pythagorean Amongitother incredibie lories of him e re old that alter persorining many miraculous cures, hereti red to mount Elna, and eape into the re, in hopes o leavin bellin him an opinionthat he was a god the populace, rom his sudde dis appearance, notanowin What a be- come of him the trich, o verer, hich was a i olim ne enough for a philosopher, Nas in covered by one of his bras sandalsiein castis Domine of the volcanos.
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Meth in k I see ou laugh ingrat the old man's folly, and crying ut, halmadness, hat ridiculous ain glor vitii many the suci exclamations, a circumstances of this kin naturali produce. ou may do this in sesely, as ou ressa enough ofr; ut Usaid the sanae noli ver spol, and e re numbers of people, hicli sonae of those, I assure ou, ho admire theold felloiu's bravery too no a litile illis me; though there e re thersu ho like me, aughed at his vanit : I a very ear, o Never, eingior in ieces by the Cynics, as Actaeon a b his dogs, and Pentheus by the Maenades, his hi nil relations. I illiive 3 o an account of the wholedrama, ascit a represented. ou kno the author eli nough al ready, and what tragedies he has been adting ali his life much superior to thos of AEschylus o Sophocles. Whenes came fit si toralis I eard one o ou disia put in Cynics, with a lota rough voice, bello ving ut his common-placecncomtum n Virthae, and abusing ali man hines his discolars then turn edin Proteus, hic lici ill en dea uou to recollect; ou ill a it is like their non sense, for ou have osten eard them declaim. arti, heia ted ut), O sun O rivers, and eas, O Hercules urancestor, dare an man accus Proteus o vatn-glory that Proteus h was
bound in Syria, he ho orgave his counir sive thous and talenis, he whowasiani med rom Rome, he horis more celebrate than the sun he whois able to contendisven illi Olympi an oves Because e is resolve to leapinio the lanae and bravely perissi, the cali it the love of lor : ut id notHercules thus perim ais, Were o Bacchus and Esculapius structa vitii lighining and di no Empedocles, in lalter times, eat into the fames 8VWhen Thagenes for that was the baiuler' name), ad sinisted his ha-rangue, I askedine of the by- standers, hatae meant by therare, or hat relatio Hercules and Empedoclesia to Proteus. Proteus repliedae , intend very oon to burn himself at the Olympi games. But how said I, and for hat reason Vme asinoing oransKer me, hen the CyniciaKled socioud that I could no hea any thing ut halae thought prope himselfio ad concernin Proteus, on hornae esto e the mos lavisti en co-
Pentheus. J Son o Echion and Agave daughter of Cadmus he succeeded his grandiather in theatragdomi Thebes, and havinia unfortunate destre of prying into the mysterious rites of Bacchus, hichine suspecte to euather licentious, he hid himself in a parti mount Citheron, ut bet nidiscovered, as et upo by the Bacchanali an omen, among whom Was hisown mollier, and sonae of his relations and torn to ieces by them. See the Bacch. of Euri. pides, and Virgil' aeneid, book iv. v. 69.mium S.
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mium s. or, not condescendii agi lo as to compare him, illi Diogenes, o his master Antisthenes, o even illi Socrates hi in self, upiter only could with him thus, Pthin k, aising them both Pon acie vel the oration closeo.
Jove, an Proteus Phidias forme the ne, the o the was the work of a ture; ut now, alas this nobi image must go rona men to the go is and leave us retche orphans ali belli nil him.' When, after much tot and
Meat in g, he had thus de live rediimself, he wept mos ridiculousty, and ore his hair takin care, horue ver that he didio pullisis to much of it attength, gh in grand sobbing, he was carried si si me of his frien d fora litile consolation. No Moneri ad his genti eman fini med his fine haran gue than another roseup, no suffering the croud o disperse, ut potar in ascit Mere his libationon the et smoaking en traiis; φ his man, after a lovit augh, hici se e medio come from the bottona of his heari, began huS- A the infamotis Thea- genes finis hed his lamentable oration illi the ear o Heraclitus, , on the
w6r of nature, his mode for Polycletus, , oner arrived a maia' estatethanae a caught in adulter at a certain place in Armenia, here he was
obliged to jump ut atra indow, after he had received a severe rubbinga nota mention his debauchinna beautis ut giri, hos parent heiribed, iththree thous and denarii, nota carr hina be re the governor of Asia Thesepranks, and a great many of the fame hin d I mali passiver, a the clay wasye rude andininformed notras et wrought up into an mage of perfection: but hache di to his fallier musti ta ken notice of yo have ait, I doubt
This mau, E . Lucian himself who was bold enough to attac the impostor, hen sur roundedi his admirers for hicli, sine telis us in the sirst page, he had like to have been
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not eard ho he strangled the old man, homine ould no permit o livebeyond his ixtieth year. When the crime a divulge he anime hi in self, and wandered about Dona place to place VAbout his time, it was that he learne the Nonder fui isdom of the Christians, heing intimatet acquainted With many of thei pri est an scribes: in a very hori time e convince them that the were allioys to im, e came thei prophet, their leader, grand resident, and in hori, ali in alit them. He explaine and interprete severat of thei books, and wrotes me imself, inso much, that the lookedisponiim a thei legislator an litigh-pri est, nay, almost Ormipped him as a god Thei ' ea ter, homthey et adore, as crucifie in Palaestine, o introducing this neruict.
Proteus was, on thi account, cast into prison, and this ver circumstance
was the Dundationis ali the consequence and reputation hichae asterwarils gained, and of that glor Whichae had alway been o ambitious os forwhen he was in boniis, the Christians, considerinti as a calamit affectingilie common cause, id very thin in thei PONero releas him, hicli, when the found impraehic able the paid him ali possibi deferende an re spem old Nomen, idotas, and Orphans, e re continuali crota ding olim, sonae of the most principat of them even sep With him in the prison, hau in 'bribed the kee pers for that purpos then Nerea costly supper brought in to them they re ad theirri sacre book together, and the oble Peregri nus for o he was then called, was dignified by them illi the ille of the die Socrates Severat of the Christi an deputies, frona the cities of Asiacam to amst, to lea for, and to com for hinas it is incredibie ithreliat alacrit these eopte suppor an defend the Publi cause the spare nothing, in stiori, o pro mole it Peregrinus bella made a prisonerin their
mon Hrfui. J r. Θαιμα ι, admirabilem undoubted ly used by Lucia as a term of eon tempt, an to e taken ironicatly This, it is observabie is the fir mentio made by ou au thor o Christians, o Christiani ty, probabi the ni one, o the Philopatris I belleve, a,
Their badi r Jesus Christ. This sentence, the reade Wil perceive, rem to beno aliconnected with that whicli Desie recit Some lines are probabinio sto the original.
C θ, pers. J r. λιπνα ποικιλα, caenae variae; or, more classical ly, caena dubia Lucianis here supposed to allude to the Αναπαι ordove-seast frequent amongst the primitive Christians, and whicli, by the epithet iliae to them, he means to refleet oia, saeing sumptuous and extra agant.
So. r. ibooti. Meaning thei explanations and illustrations of the hol scriptures. account,