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But Khat id he meant ic What good could possibi accrue Dolup ducin himselfio sies o a funerat piles IUPITER. Yo must remember Empedocles, hoJumped into the volcano in Sicily.
PHILOSOPHTNo, ather the multitude have long et me in the highest esteem and veneration, have been almost adored by them, though the di discit fuligunderstan me : ut there a re sonae, hat sta ali I ali them p ho ake myname pon them, ea the mas of friendmis', an pretend tot m intimate acquaintance these are the men ho have sed me most crueli IUPITER. What the philosophers have the conspired against you PHILOSOPHY.No, fallier, the have been injure as et a myself. IUPITER. Who then has done yo this rong ou se it is either the ignorant, nor the philosophers. PHILOSOPHY. There res me, etween both, hocin habit, look, gesture, and appear-ance, much resembi me thes enti themselves unde m banners, take
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m name, and cali thenaseives m frientis an sol lowers : ut their livesare infamous, ulli ignorance, impude iace, and vicea these are the great- est isorace o mea by these I have been injured, and rom these, O ather, I have so n. IUPITER. Bad reat ment, indeed daughter but What was italia principali offendedyOV pHILOSOPHY.No litile matters Passule yOU hen ou, as ou may et remember, beheld an hinysian in vice, sol ly, and injustice, and very thing involve lin error, ignorance, and iniqui ty, o too pit o the huma race, and sent me down command ing me to prevent thei injuring an oppressing ea chother that the flaould n longe live the life of brutes, ut, turning thei reve to the truth, oin in the bond of peace an amity. Thou kest mydaughter these ruere our ords , hat me are Oing, an ho the areled by ignorance and vice, nam ouche with compassio for them, and stom among m servant have selecte the a best able to ea their
IUPITER. Ita re member that to this purpos Uthen spake to thee: ut teli me horuthe received thee, and what thou hastinc sumere froni them. PHILOSOPHY. In compliance With thy command s, O myriather, I sed immediately, toteach, no the Grecians, ut lia I deeme the harde lassi, and there re was,illingirxto perfornacit, o instruet the Barbarians leaving there rethose lio I thought, ould wit more eas ben to the ohe, an bearthe rein P en fir to the Indias, the greate nation on artii, an persuade them, illi litile dissicut ty, to descend rom thei elephanis, and converse illi me the Brachmans, hos happy eople, figlit unde me, live in subjection to my laws, an a re there re honoured an revered byali around them these die in a manne most strange and astonissaing. JUPITER. You mean the Gymnosophists Pliave hear many things of them, an d, amongii others that the bui id a funera pile, an diurn thenaseives pon it,
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without ver changing thei habit o thei post ure: ut in his there is Othinis extraordinary, o Psa it just no done at Olympia, here, I sup-
theiace passed into Scythia, and rom the nce to Thrace, here I as et byOrpheus and Eumolpus these I sent hesore me into Greece, the one byssing and musico harmoni Ze the ind of men the ther o inculcate the
came about me, a se of men, et ther firmi y attache to my precepis, nor
ulteri abhorrent frona thema a Lind of centaurs, a mixe an imperfectrace, somethingiet een philosoph and impost ure, ei ther totali the laves of ignorance, nor keeping their yes led fasti fixe on me : like those hoare hal Dblin frona inanes of ght, the sonaetimes gras pedis an emptymadow or ea image of me the thought, at the a me time, that theyknew very thin perfecti ; heiace raros that seles an superfluous isse dona amongsst them, hicli, not illi standing the considere fas in vincibi :hence those subile distinctions, hos intricate and ab suid arguments, hicli, like labyrintlis, ni coniunded, and perplexed mankind.
Amen. J The seven is mei of Greece, Pittacus, Bias, Thales, Periandei Cleobultra Chilon, Solon.' Samos. I Pythagoras. Ephesus. HeracllituS. Abdera. Democritus.l Ceniatirs. Hal me and halnhorses, a the menae descit bes,er hal - philosopheta audhal rascalf the com parison is excellent.
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Being at lengili contradicted an confuted by m discipies, the began togrow warna, and to combine against them, O accus them in the forum, and
consign them to chalias an hemi Ock. I ought perhaps, o have qui ited them immediately, andio longe to have astacialed with lach me : ut Antisthenes and Diogenes, and aster them Crates an Menippus, persuaded me
sered si man indignities. IUPITER. You have notoet old me ha thos indignities ere. PHILOSOPHY.Liste then, and I ill informiso there is a loK se of men servise,
mean, and mercenary, who neve had, in thei youth, an conversei communion illi me, ut ere ei ther servanis, tradesinen η coblers, mittis, fullers, preparer of Ool for the omen, or en gage in ome handi cras orother of this ind, and consequently frona thei childhood carce ver somuch ast eard of m nam : ut finding, hen the were advance incitis, that my followers et illi universat esteem an admiration, that me putconfide iace in them, obeyed thei dictates, and reade thei censure allthis, the thought, a very des rabie, an seemexto est ablissi a litile empire : ut o fit thenaseives for this way of life was a dissiculi lassi, Oraather, indoed totali impracticabie in the mea time, litile a go by the aris the profeshil, and the had much ado, illi ali hei labour, o supportthenaseives. Servi tu de asin heau burthen, and to any of themare intolerable Compelled by the se dissiculties, the resolve to cast, ha thes allor cali, thei sacred anchor, and the tristi in m harbour and tothis end the calle in Ignorance and Impuden cerior thei allies, illi Calumn and buse, that re ver ready to assist them V elliore&with these, preti provision, ou ill say, o philosophy, the tric them silves ut, and assumem habit and appea rancea like sop's assi, lio, uti in on thelion 's kin brayed a fiercet as e could, and expecte to e taken for areal lion an sonae there ere, hom the easit imposed on man-
Collem, mi bs, Veri fise ont substitute the word Religio instead os Philosophy, this
dialogue illae extremel applicabie fro beginning to end to the enthusiasis of the presentage. Our Methodistsare, illi respectrio the regula clergy, exacti What Lucian' sophista were heia compare to the rue philosophers, composed like them, of the lowest ordersamong si us, proud impudent, ignorant, an illiterate, resembling, bove ali, thei Greciani redecestars in layin heau contributions on ali thei deluded sol lowers.
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abus every body. The would o live no upon pla in pulse an coarse Dod, as the didie rein herbs and salta is, ut siem os allainds, and the finest ine the coliected a tribute hereve the inent, or as the calle it, meere thei meep, ver bod giving them omething, ei ther uti respect, o sordear the mould e abused by them the thought no do ubi, the had an equat right torali ad vantages illi the rue philosophers nor sit every one ho an discern the differen ce, here externat are ali he. fyouinquire to stricti in to thei character, they have recourse immediatet, toabus and violence: Dyou find fauit illi their lives, the refer ou to their doctrine, an is o disti ke thei doctrine, the destre o to conside their
The whole it ahound wit impostor of this hi nil, speciali among 9 the followers of Diogenes, Crates, and Antisthenes, at those ho figlit unde Cynicianners : these neve imitate that vigilance, that domestic carean attention that memor that love of thei master, hich dog are sorem arkable for; ut thei barhing their greed iness, their gluttony, theirlust, hei DKning 1lattery, and love of a good table these are canine qualities, hicii they are great proficient in. Yo may asil foresee hat ill e the consequence of this: men illquit thei inops, and leave the aris uncultivaled, hen the find that thouolithe labour seo morning to night the cannot suppor them se lues; hi ista se of idie impostor canesive in affluence, ah What the plea se, e angryat those ho illiso give, and carce than kful to those ho do this mustappea a olde age to them; the hone flores in to thei mo ullis front
The vi Nouldae tolerable fcit ende here; ut these retches, grave an demur a the appear ut Nard ly, is the can et a beauti fui Roman, what the dori halliso mention Some of them have been familia Siththe wives of thei hosts, like the amous ' Trojan ovili, mere ly I suppose,
From heamen. J his seem to allude to the ee ling of the Israelites illi manna HowLucia came tota this, is no easit tot accounted for. Trojan ourb. J Paris, o ellonown in ancient stor sor his love o Helen the wite es
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to mali philosopher of them nay, even rought them acquainted illithei servanis, o the preten ce of fulsit ling the dictates of ' Plato, hoheld that women hould e in common o ali no understandin in hallans that divine philosopher meant to e understood ii regar to this
Their totous and runken bellavi ou at east it ould e tedious tomention though the a re ali the whil rati in at runkennesi adultery, avarice, and lasciviousnest Nothing canae more contradictor tha theirword and thei actions are to acti ther the style them lues the ene- mi es of saltery though in adulatio the excet citruthias and Gnathonides; recommen truth to very body, and at the fame time, neve ope theirlip without a falsehood Plea re, the teli ou is injurious to all, and Epicurus is hei for her, notwith standing, and orae alone, the actand live. Eve petulant, complaining on the east occasion, an prone to anger, like litti child rem this mali es them ridiculous torali belloiders; for, when the are angry, a livid palenes spread ove thei faces, the lookfierce and furious, and thei mo ullis are fuit of soam. or ather of pol nuneuer, my friend may ouae ear hen the si illi flows froin them Gold, o silver, cries very one of them I disdain Q want ni an obolus to buyme a se lupines the ex fountain or river ill suppi me illi drinlicibu in a liti te hile the as not for oboli or drachmas, ut for immense riches. What mercliant for his reight receives hal of hat philosophybring to these meni hen the have got ha the wanted the wretchedcloa is seon thrown by the purchas sine clothes, sine omen, and whole sireeis, and bid a die to the ouch o Crates, the cloak of Antisthenes, and Diogenes' tub.
When me se thes things, the beginuo despise Philosophy, thin allwho profescit are like, and accus me a the te acher of it. Notine disciplesor his long time havera gaine amongst them like Penelope, I weave
Plato. See Pol. s. P. S9. ru hias and Gna bonides. Famous parasites of thos days; though the lalter feems, ae- cording to Terence, O have been a genera name se ali genti emen of that pro session. a the school of the philosophers Have ta e seo the philosopher theirmames, So, in like manner, et ali parasites Be cali 'd, rom me, Gnathonies. See Colman's Terenee, p. 3I.
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m web, an in a momen it is uniWined Rhilst Ignorance and Impi et smileto se me labouring in vain. IUPITER. O, y godsi ha miser has Philosopli suffere froin these retches But let us consider halcis tot done and ho w shalloreat thenici mylighining ould destro them at a stroke, ut that is to quic a death.
Father, I ill assist oua forci detest these impostors, thes halers of the Muses, hom for their ahes ab hor. The are not orth of ourthunder let us, there re is it see good o ou sen dore Mercury, to enquire into thei crimes, and determine thei punishment acheris himself welles earn ed, e illi ab leuo distinguissi the true frona the false philosopher; ill prais the one according to his meriis, an punish the otherasae deserveS. IUPITER. Apollo, o advis Keil but o ou Hercules, accompan him, and tak in Philosophy long With ou mahe the est of our a to earth; conside the extirpationi these hamelesse, filii, monster as our ' hir
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That is asil done; ut Udo not knowtheir ames : ou Philosophy, must teli them me, and what mark Ilam to know them by. PHILOSOPHY.Thates canno do have reali ver litile acquaintance illi them: but, rom heir ager hir after riches, o might no improperi callthem ' tesones, o Ctesippi, o Ctesicles's, o Euctemons, o Polycteti.
The mori in Philist. J The cit os Phili popolis, uili by Philip called also Trimontium,
froin the three mountain that surrounde it it a siluated on the ank of the Hebrus, in Thrace, et Neen Hamus and Rhodope.' Cleones, Vc. Gr. Κτησονας, habeones, say the Latin translation, Whicli, by the by,