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daneest here o observe thei various turn and motions the bendings and writhings of the ody, hici, at the a me time that they are enteriaining to the spectator, are, hol me an saliatar also to the per firmer forti, Xercise is bothraealthful an dieco ming that beniis and supples the limbs, ahes themittereto bear an change, and gives them no i mali strengthlandiri an esse. What then an e se id against an ari se universiilly excellent, hic hsiarpens the ind, exercises the ody, delight the spectator, eaches the knowlege of antiqui ty, and please both the ye an ear amidi the har mon os sutes, cymbals harps, an songs the modulations of the voices attracto you, here illo ouin staeeter harmon 3 or, is o take delight in music' stili more enchantini uniis, in ur art ou ill have nough os
both. Normeed I add that this entertain men improves the manners also,
for in alwavs find the lage detest in and abhorring very thing that is evit, sympathi ging illi the oppressed, and in Ver respeet inculcatin morali ty, and the condiae of the spectators Most prat se-worthycit is, in his arr, that it promotes both the strength and agili ty of the limbs the force of Hercules, and the delicac os a Venus, are tinc exhibite by t. I, illio describe to ou hat a good ancer mould e both illi rea gard to in and Ody the forme I have at ready touchedipon, and ob served that he siould have a fine genius an an Xcellent memory, a ready wit, and good understanding, knowingio I mahe the bestis every thinq;with a critical udgmen o poetry, able to distinguissi the est song and verses, and o reject What i bad. Vith regaryto his Ody, triliould e accordin to the tales la id do iunby Polycletes 'essa ould noti excessivel tali nor o mort like a dis ars butis a true and proper height no sat an buthy, O that an neve be
The eople of Antioch, a very ingenious and sensibi nation, ho revery fondis dancing, and o nice in thei observation that noth in escapos them, ad the ollowin re marks litti man ne a per forming the par o Hector, the cricit ut, his is Astyanax; here is his ather 8 n-
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other time, an immoderately tali fellow, ancing in the charadter os Capaneus, ho was to scale the Theban wall, viet up they cried, oui nota anta adder sat heavy ancer, ut tempting to mali a great leap they roa redout tali care 3 o domo beat the stage oren ' and a poor meagre creature cuti in capers, the crie liut, im ou etter,' aci the mana ad been sic mention these rem arks, o for the est' salie, ut that ou may perceive that there a re hole nations, ho conside the artis o much consequenceras to rescribe hat is eco ming in it, and what is no so. Theiody of the good ancer must, moreover, e both flexibi and compadi, that i may bend ea si ly, o stanti firmoas occasion mali require. Danc-ing, illi regari to the motion of the haniis, parta Linii a great mea sure the natur of boxing in the public games, and borrore ing Whate ver is beauti fui and eco minifrona the rite o Hercules, Mercury, and Ollu X. Herodotus telis S, that the eye convey more Dith fui intellige nce than theear: the dancer must alie se of both.
Dancinitia suci, an effect on the minit, that the love who comes in to the theatre is ured of his passio by seeing the dreadfui consequences of it: and
the melanchol man mali go arua y bris and chearsul, ascit he had dran thecupi oblivion, a thea poet says,
O foveregia se fassu age Thesbo ilingio sona os tumultu OUS age, To clear the cloudy frontis rin kled care, And dry the earful si uices of despa tr. It is a certain signahat there is in his art ometh in analogous to ur nature, is the spectator Neeps heia any thinis ad an mourn fulcis represented. The Bacchanali an ance, hic licisso constantly performed in Ionia and Pontus, though a satirical one, has suci, an effectis the eopte there, that at certa in easons they neglect very thin et se, to sit hole day viewing the Titans, Corybantes, Satyrs, and hepherils even the nobili ty and chies person there otia in the ance, an are so a frona ein asiam ed, that they are more prouxo it than of their igh irili, hono urs, and dignitie S.
1 Theudie. See Herodotus, . viii. The poet. J Homer. See Odyssey book v. l. 3o3. What the Nepentheis Homer reatly vas, the crities have notae determine&: certain, ori ever, it is, that the description correia ponds exacti With our de oripium, and the usual estedis fit.
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cistas some move irregulari y, and as e say, ut O time and tune, the otio inting ut ne hin g, and the music another: thers ance in tu nebul mistake the periodis time and the circumstanceis action. Q re membersor example, hen a maia a to represent in a ance the birth of Jove, and the crueityi Saturn in devourin his hild reia, he cons unde esit illi themis fortune o Thyestes and another, ho Nas Io per forna the part of
Semele, hocis consumed by lightia in g, an in to the stor of Glauce, Othbetrayed into it by the similitude of the evenis But therari isti is no tobe condemne or de spisse for the fauit of the artist, ut hos only are tota ke the lanae ho a re ignorant an uiaskil fui; and tho se, on the other hand tot applauded ho do very thin properi y, and accordi indito therules of art. Upon the whole, the ancer mouidie exad and perfeci , ah
indicare that ali is beauti fui, consonant, an harmoni Ous, superior o criticiis, deficient in no pari, ut excellent in ali acute to discern de epi; learn ed, and above ali possesse of humanit and benevolen ceci then illhis prat seae complete, heia very spectator mali in the ancer bello id himself, and sce, as in a glasse, very thing hich he is sexto hin and odo the wil they nolle able to contain thenaseives for oy, ut ill rea ksortii into rapture, atranding the image of theiri Nn ind thus reflected onthem The Delphic precepti ano thyset thus fulfilled by means of this oble spectacle, the in frona the theatre instructed in ha theyare o follow, and what the are to avo id, and lare there aught that whichbe fore the were totali ignorant f. But there is in ancers, as in oratory, a in os false energy, or affectation, hicli semetimes carries them beyon the prope bound of imitation is the are to represent an thin great, the mali it immense ; is tender, cffeminate mant an robust rustii and avage an instance of hicli Ire member in a dancer of the first character, and who in very thin eis deserved the highest admiration, ut unaccountably fel into his error frona an excessive desi rem plea sing, and per forming the par of Ajax, o veracte dit, that he secine notato imitate a m ad man, ut to e reatly he tore therobe
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life by attaching a ad man the common eople, homould not distinguissiright Dona rong, thought it the sinest imitation they ver beheld; and thebetier fori, whoilusied for the performer, id not condemn him by their silence, ut en de avoured to Over his error by thei applause, though theyeasit perceived that it a the ancer 's adness, and no that of Ajax ourn oble performer, o e ver not contented inith his, did somethingilli more ridiculous for lea ping in to the id die of the theatre, e sat himselfiownbettaeen in persons of the sis rank, who inere notis litile frightene testhe mould have taken ei ther of them sor a ram and stoggedaim sonae eresurpri se at this stranges bellavio ur, other laughed, and many egan toth in k, that rom extraordinar attention to his pari, the man was actuallyrun ad the say that heia e came to im self, and was conscious ofhaving appeared like a m adman. he fellincta illi gries it a plain, in-deed, he was greatly nected by it, sor, ei taxaster ards des redo persorinthe sanae par again, e recommendet another, and sat dispon the stage, t twas nough to play the ool orice in his life ut halinave hi in the ostula asiness, was the succes of a rival, ho, ein appotia ted o succeed him in Max, id it so e illas to gain universa applause, eeping ith in the prope limits of his ari, an dio spolling the imitationi madnes an excess. Phave laid, m friend these se observations e re you on ancing, that ouisa no longerie so an gry illi me sor admiriniit; and Dyo willaccompan me to the theatre, Pana Ure ou ill es captiva ted an seonbe fond of it even to madia esse I saal l have no ea solario say illi ' Circe,
ou ora. Wooden saoes e have Deir, ut the practice of dancing in iron secies is Iaeli eve, confine to antiquity, a I domo remember it has ye been adopted among usu though dance of adies in patiens might possibiy, Dona the novel ty fit, have no bad effect but his I submit to the anager Os the theatres royal.
sula digni ty. Theseople of the fir famion in the ancient theatres sat close to the stage, nono astur' do, at a distance, here the caninei ther se nor bear. It was enough. JNee lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum. Orace, Capi a M. PGreeli αλωσι λινον, the translation here is literat.
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sanae it Was qui te nother hinx then have appealed, oKever, to the judgment of the oldest an gravest me of the ity, e re hom none, Whora ad an modesty Nould dare toria What Nas improperi indecent.
A certain stipend, ou know, is allo ed by the em perora ever sect fphilosophers, Stoics, Platoni cs, Epicureans, an Peripatetics, O very one the sanae on the dea th of any one of these another must e chosen in his room, by a majorit os voles amongst the nobilit the re Ward of this con tentio is notoliat the poetsing of hog, or an Ox's hide, ut scienthousand drachmas a year, o the instruction os ovili. PAMPHILUS.
I is se an one of them, Ictear, is lately dead, a Peripatetic, I be
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m momen L J Amongst the Grecians, ho inere almos a superstitious a the Englim of thelast century boars, weaseis hares, an many ther hings ere considerexas ad omens, andici meet an of them a Certain presage of ill fortune. Luci an add to the list, and bring in his eunuchis an minous 1ight. M asta. J See Menage on emale Philosophers. n. An eademic. J Luci an is here supposed to allude to ne Phavorinus, a famous philosophermentione by Philostratus; ho though an eunuch, as trie an convicted as an adulterer. Ite is likegis taken notice of in oti author ' DemonaX.
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a liti leae remur time. ut Dioeses, even admittin that there a suci aone, and that he had been ussere to do his, ould o allo; the orce of the argument, nor pay an regar to the glor he had acquired frona an ignorant multitude he mentioned a the sanae time, severat severe okes throti noui particularly by the Stoic and Cynics, pontis odit imperfection Thewhole matter, there fore, illi the hadges, reste Mon his, hether an eunuchWas quali fied i teach philosophy, and to reside ver out hi sonae asserting, that a philosopher mould have very par of his Ody hole and complete, and a bove ait, a longi eard that might procure hina respecto nil au thori ty amongst his discipies, an reniter in in ver respecto orthythe drachmas allowed by the em peror, that an eunuch, as Orse thalmone holi ad been totali emascula ted for they ad ei oyed thei virilit for sometinae, as the forme were deprived of it even rom thei in fanou, and couldbe considere Monly as an ambiguous creatur like the crows, hici a re rec-kone netther mongst the pigeon nor the raUen S. O the otheriand it astrongi urged that thi Was properi a contentionis inds, and notiodies it Was a matteris science and earn ing, and Aristolle a cited, ho admired Hermius the eunuch, in Ofraternae, tolachis degree, that he even a id divine honours to im a tora god Bagoas ad the impudence to adit, that eunuch were the bes preceptor foryo Ung men, a the musi e re frona ali suspicion, and could o be accuse of the crime attribu ted o Socrates, o corrupting the pupil commit-
the tength of thei beard a 4oat mus h preferable to them all. In the id si of this busti came in a thir person, hos nanae hali notbe mentioned olio cri et out ud ges, his ' felloin illi the smoothchin, and woman's voice, silio is socii h a eunuch, i yoti triplina, ill beseund a good a man as ou could isti fora at east, is hos se true holiave accused hi in a an adulterer, and aken him in the Dei, heia he had recoxars to this artifice, an pretended orae an eunuch persuading the j Udges, frona his utward appearance, to acquit hina of the crime lai t his
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charge and now for the ahe of the reward I suppose, e Nould illinglyretract again. Upon his, there as, asso ma imagine, a generat laugh. Bagoas a con unded change colour, ut imself into a thous and pos- tures, an fel into a col Meat not carin t achnoN lege the adultery, though at the sanae time, he thought that the suspicionis it mightae offervice to him in the present Tair. PAMPHILUS. The circumstance was ridiculous nough, and must have tarded o nosmat entertain ment. But pray, hat was done at last, and o di theiud Res determine tyL I S. The were not ali of the fame opinion me ere for rippin him asthey do the naves, and examining hether, o farras certain Paris e re con- cerned, e might e dee me a philosopher: thers, o make the assai stillmore laughabie, vote for callin in sonae adies, orderinthim o speakwith them in private sending long illi them ome credibi Witness, toprove hetherae a able to philosophi Ze Aster ali, hen very one Ofthe company had spli his sides illi laughing the agreed totismis the causet Italy, tot finali determine there. The other, i seems, is stili carrying on the mi r preparinginis accusation, an has ahen up the busines of the adultery though it must aheaga in himself rather than his adversar : thus, like a ad lawyer, urtingliis ore cause Bagoas, in the mea time, attend to ther matters, and frequently gives proos of his anhood, opin he ma succeed, fine cant, ut hei that he has the ab ilities of a jack-ast. This, after ali then, in frien d stem tote the est criterioni philosophu, and a demonstration nota be controverted. I hali ista, the refore, that my son a presentiu a boy ma be possessed, o o eloquenc orunderstanding, ut o certain paris, stili more necessar to mahe a complete philosopher. N