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servanis, holood bellind, aughed immoderately the grammari an, hosti nextri him, alched together a parce of Verses rom Pindar, Hesiod, and Anacreon, and madera ridiculous umbie of them ali amongst the est, asci he had been a prophet, e repeated, mois hield with hield, illi helmet helm et clos' l,
li ad ahen Domine of the alters. In the intervali et Neen the ourses, Aristaenetus thatio par of the timemightae Without ome enteria in ment, ad ahen careo provide a bustioon,
who a brought toria o do any thing comica o ridiculous that could divert the company the fello came in With his head shaved, and oni a seruhair oesit, and standing pright distorted his bod in various postures, an cedabout an repeate sonae verses, that ounded like AEgypti an throwingout o and the so me est on the company whicli mos of them smile at; ut lienae attacked Alcidamas, and calle hin the do ofMelita, the Cynicare an gry he wasae fore affrontexat his admitta iaceto the east, and throwing own his cloah, he hallenge him o fght, and si id, iste refused, he ould knoc him down illi his lub; oor Satyrion,
there fore, for that was the fellori' nam e , a force to stand p audfght withaim. It was plea sani nough to se a grave philosopher at cussswith a buffoon, and thum ping one another; ome were Pleased at, an sonae amante oscit, ill at ast Alcidamas, orn ut by repeate bio 8, was force to te id to the superior strengili an experience of liti te Satyrion 'his
conclusion et the whole table in a roar. litile aster came in ionicus, the physician, hora ad been deta in-ed by his attendance o Polyprepon the musician, ho a m ad concern
dian struc him severa biotas on his hand with a long hip in his extre-
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ET EMOCLES, A PHILOSOPHER, T ARISTAENETUS.
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mous enteria in ment; ut thoughine pressed me Karm lyci re sed im, keeping mysti distingaged like a lockhea a I as for oti, ho have deserte me to et o the Ompany of thers; ut Pam no surpti sed a it, asyo have no a sussicient comprehensioni minit o distinguisti, hat sui litan proper but I know ho in I am indet, texto for his reat ment, that Ioruerit to thos admirabie philosophers, Zenothemis and the ' Labyrinthwhom, vanit apari, I could ake an end of ith a single syllogis I et ei ther of them teli me hat philosopli is ,-or that fi st u stion Ἀhu is the differen cera et Keen to have, an to Oidi notato mention the puZgling
early in the moria ingrat Our Unctouse, nil asterward in the temple of Castor, here o umen to sacrifice and this sonae of the company noruvery eli. O Will say Pam an gry about a trifle, ut remember the loryo Oeneus: o ma recollecto that Diana af ighi in censed at hi in forno ashingae to the sacrifice, henae invitexat the other deities. Homer spe alis thus oscit, - bade contention rise, In venge ance of neglected sacrisce
The Labyrinth. Diphilus. See note p. 48r. creation. J See Diogenes Laertius, c. r. p. 43 .
. Aud Sophocles. J Theclines here quoted are also supposed to have been taken rom the si leager of Sophocles, a traged Whicli is no come dore torus.
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Thi , though much mores could have added, may sussice to me v ou Chathind of man ou have Troia ted oni tolleas Diphilus, honi o have thought prope to entrust illi the care os ou son, and in his ou are certain ly riolit he has an extraordinar affectiora for the oung man, and theyouia maia sor hinan is it Ner no sor modesty's sa could say somethingiore on his head, and which Zopyrus, the paedagogue, noK to e rue; butri do not chus to disturi, the festiva by accusations, speciali of this nature thouoli Diphilus eli deservescit, sae has atready aken way two scholar frona me; bu , for the falce of philosophy, I say no more. I have or-dered myservant, is our eopte offer in any ictu ais, O to ake any, that ou may notri in I sent hi in for that pui pose. Whilst his letter a re ad inrad must wnes Meate sor ham an vexation isti ed, as eople say that the arth ould open and wallo me up rather hanci mould e orced lo ea the ou laugiis that sol lowed every ord, specialty rom ali ho se ho ere acquainted illi taemocles, that grey-hea de sage, horai Naysiore the character of a grave and respect- able philosopher; they egan to suspect that theyane; nothing of his realcharacter, and to on de ho the couldie so deceived by a long eard, and a demur counte nance though it idio appea to me that Aristaenetusles hi mihi Dominia; dilies pect buti ecause he didio expectine ould comet he had been invited, and ad there re neve sent to assi hi m.
No ooner ad the servant done ea ling the letter, than the whole com- an 'fixed their yes on Diphilus and Zeno, ho both looked pale and terrificii confirming, by the change of their counte nances, the suspicions throw out by Etaemocles Arist. Enetus, thoughrae se med himself, no ali ille disturbe at it, ad os drinh a Way, smiled, and en de avoured o turnit ostras et ache could He hi spere the servant to tali care of him, anda litile aster Zeno got up an sun ossi rivalely the school-master signi- fyino, olim, that by his ather' Orders, e musst illi draw. Andisoru Cleodemus, ho h ad long been Walchin for an opportunity, but nul l findione, o fallita foui pon the Stoics, took occasion, romthe letter, o vent himself, and criediui, These are the works of the fa-mous Chrysippus, Cleanthes, and the admirabie Zeno nothinibu a feruempi Gords, an id te questio oro o, and a se custonas augiit rom hephilosophers and above ali, the great Etaemocles, illi his old-woman 'sepi illes;
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episti es Aristinetus, it stems, is Oeneus, and e Diana. rcules, hat fine doings are these, and no doubi, ight y ecomin and properso suci a festivali P Jove seid Hermon, ho sate ex above him, it is most excellent: he hadaeard I suppose, that Aristaenetusta a boar o supper, and this put him in ind of the Caledoniam in good truth, o mouid se nil him astice of it, est, lihe Meleager, he mould die illi unger though ne would hin he houldie sala Domahat, as Chrysippus and his Stoic held allthes thing toae indifferent.
Zenothemis then, rising up roared out How dare yo abuse Chrysippus because ne an is an impostor, have o a right to condemn ali the est: or, ecause Etaemocles oes no spea like a philosopher, are o to abute Zeno an Cleanthes, me of sense an character ρ id not ou, Hermon,
cutiss the goiden loch frona the statue o Castor, and ad noto ou like toliave suffere sor ito id not ou, Cleodemus debauch the wi se of our schola Sostratus, and id noto ou undergo a certa in ianae fui punishment for it 3V I animo baiud, oKever, o Hown wise, replied Cleodemus, a sonae sol ks area nor dies ta ke a stranget ' mone to hee foraim, andasterward Mea that I neve received it no doci ake fift per cent on
not deny Didae nothemis, ut that ou sol a certa in liquor o Crato topoison his fallier illi. He then drank hal a glas of ine, and thre therest in his face, par of it falling on Ion, hora appene unfortunatet to sitnea him. Hermon iped the wine of lichead, and callexo the compa nyto bear itnes of the affront he had received Cleodemus, ho ad nogiast, turne abolat, an spit poes Zenothemis, then laying old n hisbeard illi his test anil, leat hi in illi the ther in suci a manner, that he would inevitabi have illed the old an is Aristaenetusa ad not
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Learning osten raW aside froni the patiis of right reason, hos menwho atten to nothinibu books, and the tenet an opinion contained in them sor, amongst ali hos philosophers, carce ne but was in sonae Wayculpabie, et theri doing, or laying, hat as unbecoming. Nei ther could this, asci reflected, e imputexto the ine; as heri Etaemocles rote his letter, he had et ther ea nor drank. The hole mair, in deed, fel l ouid in erenti frona ha might have been expected the ignorant and illiteraten ei therio drunk, nori id o sat an thin indecent, ni laughing at, anicondemning those hom the had besore theaighest opinion f, and whomtheya ad been aught to reverence and admire : hiis the wis and learn edgre anton and lascivious, drantato excess, and id nothingi ut abus and fghi illi ne another. Even the reat Alcidamas bellave indecenti be- fore the omen insomuch, that our eas seeme to resemble that of the God Whicli the poets teli usi a the nuptials of Peleus when Eris, notbe in invite. to it thre the apple among them, hicli produce theton and re ad ut Trojan war. The letter of Etaemocles sent in torus, stemel like another apple os discord, and was attended, illi as fata consequences. Zenothemis an Cleodemus stili epi rangling, though Aristaenetus sat
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this solemnity, and prope so the occasion; et very one of us, i thout farther contention enteria in the company by haranguingi soni subject, in the anne o Plato.' his motion as applauded by every body, particulari by restaenetus and Eucritus, Wh hoped by this means, to et rid of the nois an tumuit hicli ere so dilagreeable : Arestaenetus, there fore, reti redo his N place imagining that very thing ould nota be
other for theiri degroom and myself Zeno ei nygone ostri Diphilus h ad a
Ion the proceeded, and bega thus Since, Didae, o insist in myspeakin sitst, erit o : e re his learne company it may perhaps, beexpected that Pshould a someth in concerning ideas, incorporea substances, o the immortalit of the oul to prevent, notWith flanding any disputes that ma aris from sucti as differ illi me in opinioni these sub
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yo mean or of ho An do ou Wretch, replied the Platonie, preten d o tal λ' Dionysidorus a no running into abuse, hen Minti aeus the graminari an like a good man, ut a stodit it by crying ut, more of this I a minoinxto repeat m Epithalamium.' And accord ingly helegam is Premember right, it an thus: Here,asirought up Cleanthis the divine, Nor Venus, nor the oon, is halfio si neu
Hail, thou to beauteous biidegroom, far more DirThanmeleus, o Achilles, ver ere
Hermon and Zenothemis, a I efore observe to ou, sat exta eachothera a fir st the took ver quieti their severat portions but a fati ird bellat by hance et clo serio Hermon, mark I beseech you this circumstance, fornow our affair dra to a crisis, Zenothemis quit his o n, and en deauoui sto et Ze that hicli elonge to Hermon, and whichae a strenuous heldfro in him a reat clamo ur immediatet aros e the set upon ach other, tossed the bird into ne nother' faces, and acti seire his antagonist by the beard, and calle out for hei p. Cleodemus ste to the assistance of Hermon, Alcidamas and Diphilus too the partis Zenothemis The philosophers, in hori, ali ange thenaseives on ne de or the ther, X cepi Ion, whoiood neuter. The rest procee de to blows When Zenothemis, ta Lingudia large cudith a stoodie fore Aristaenetus, thre citra Hermon.
mre os, is J Theoriginal consi sis os me bad verses, supposed to have been madet a vile poet. I have, there fore, translated them accordingly.
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avoide the fray, discovering by the Xample of theloo grammari an, horudangerous it a to inter fere in thing of this nature. It was, in stor theseast of the Lapithae and the Centaurs the tables ere Verturn ed the cus sisere ossed about, andilood pili ora very de. At ength, o crown ali Alcidamas threi do noli cand testic and test us ali in totai darknessa the stat then re stili more serious for wecouldio easit procure more light, hicli, hen it a sint ast bro uolit in discovere so me ver bad transactions that ha been carrie onu Alcidamasti ad been rude illi a poorid ling giri, and Dionysidorus a caught in the facti making way it a large cup, that fellisut of his boso mu heria id, by way of excuse, that Ion ad gi velit hi in to take care os; ut Ion informia
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Thus finime the east, hich, after many melanchol evenis ended atlast in mirili, o farra it concerne Ion Alcidamas, and Dionysidorus there urere carrie liss ounded. Zenothemis, in particular, suffere most severely, qui it in the fiet with ne an on his ye, and the ther o his nose crying ut that he was a dea man Whil Hermon, ho h ad ostire of his leth in the fray, could not et crying ut, as e me him, Remember Zenothemis that ' i'ain is no vii. V Theiridegroona Dionicus, having res il his oUnds, was carried home, illi his ea bound up, in the chario that was intended for theiride, lamenting the nhappy celebrationis his nuptials Dioeses Ooli care of the est as elicis e could many of them ere carried is in thei seep, and castadin ali the way. Assor Alcidamas, he si a id here, nor could the servant get hina ut, he hel, ad orace thrown himself o the ouch, and go to seep. Thus conclude liurianqueet m dea Philo, of hicli the Tragi Musema thus an g, How strange and various are the fates of men Oft times the Gods, unliopei fori testings erad, And of times that hic li most eclook'd for mocks
Foro hing mo strange an uia expect ed id there appen; for my Nn pari, Plearn ed rom it, haesit is very angerous for an man who is no fondo quarreis, to ea and rin with philosophers.
Patu, gr. J A favourite absurd opinion of the Stoics, hichias been the subject of ridicule Hom the time of Luci an to this day.l Thus sing. The verses here subjoined are taxen sto the end of the Alcestes of Euripides.