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me did that of the Greelis, meret by calling them omen instead of men, and is generali more Warin and spiri ted in his description than the ther, who in the heat flatile malae his heroes talitato much, and damps be ar- dour of the en gagement illi tales and abies Iam lea sed in Demosthenes with the divisionis his paris, the harmon of his perio is, and that poetical staeetnesi hicli adorias his Norks whilst, on the ther and Homer is byn means deficient in antithesis, compari sons, spirite digures, and purit oflangvage: the graces, both Dari and nature seem uni ted in him nomeans, there fore, Dyou pla in ly see, old our mus in contempt thoughrith in Dan encomtum n Homer more dicticuit than one on Demosthenes for exclusive of his poetry, I have nothin sui and certa in to go pon ali is hid de froni us no do ei no the least of his count ry, his fami ly, o the time he heiotari med. Is ei ad any thinito dependin, illi regard to the place of his nativi ty, e mouid o longe be in do ubi hether it was Colophon, O Cumae, o Chios, o Smyrna, o AEgypti an Thebes, ori sty therplaces; or hetherae a sprun frona Maeota, the Lydiano iver, and Melanope, o sonae nymph o dryad; hether e livet in the age of ancient heroes, o in later times: eano no Whether he was prior o posterior o Hesiod, hether heris the old me lesigenes, or hether e a reatly as reported, oor an dii ind. nriast content urseives, there fore, to et allthes things rema in in thei original obscuri ty, and con sine u et logium tollis verses, and the excellent testans of is dona an virtve contained in them.
But our usines is ali ready to ou handa the exquisite dissicis prepared, and yo have nothinnio do but togarnis it Fortune besto Nedin Demosthenes very thing that a great, illustrious, an destreable Athen was his country that nobi city the Pilla os Greece, celebrate di s many excellent poets on his head I could bring in the adventures of the godς, theirgisis, thei habitations thei divisions, with the Eleusinian mysteries, qcould introduce the Athenian laws, heir amemblies, thei conquest and triumph by land and ea, subjects that require the nerve and elegance of a Demosthenes himself to describea his ould afford ample matter for a panegyric, o mould Iae singula in draining parti m encomtum rom his country Isocrates, in his irais o Helen, rought in Theseus D poets, you know, have a licencessor every thing but, ou ill say, I transgress the
s Meles=enes. 3 Homer is stipposed to have taken his nam stoin the rive Meles, running
by the walis os Smyrna in Ionia, illi a cave atriis ead, here heris sal to ave inritte his
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rulei proportion, and ake the oor bigger than the ou se oo se nomore, there fore, o Athen S, et Us remember that his athe was an admirat,a ille of the highest rank there an his leavin his son an orphan was nomis fortune to him, ut rather ara appiness, ascit gave in the opportunityos saerein his talenis, an increasse his reputation Concernini Homer seducation and manners, histor Lives usi intellige nce, o must, have re- courseu, Hesiod' laurei that inspire the hepherds, and made them alip eis; ut in the prais of Demosthenes o ma cali in the testimon os Callistratus, Alcidamus. Isocrates. Isaeus, Eubalides, rando long list Ofleariae nam es t assist ou 'o ma teli us that in spite o ali the leas res of Athens, in spite of that propensit to vice, hicli oun me areeve prone io, and though, through his tutor' neglige iace, he might have given himselfui to luxur an extravagance, the love os philosoph and virtu prevalled ver ali, and ted him, noto the oor of ' Phryne, ut tolli school of Aristolle, Theophrastus, Xenocrates, an Plato. An here, my good friend, o might haranguem the two different hindso love that actuat the human reast ne vague, fluctuat in g, wild, and storiary, at sing tumulis in the ind like that Venus of the sea, rom heiaceit prang the other, a lin of the great heavenly chain, an mage of the never- ad indigod des o beau ty, who doth no infli et in curable ound with si res and daris, ut inspires the foui illi a pure an hol fame, that sacredfur Whicli, a the trage dians say the god alone, and those ho resemblethem, are endo ex ith. It Nas his hic his nable the reat orator o gothrough the grotto the ooking glasi, and the word; hicli aught inito Vet ove the dissi culties of his pronunciation to despis the multitude, to continue night an da at his studies, hici starpeiae his memory, and made him vigilant and industrious: e re not, there re surpri sed to findDemosthenes o excellent, enrichin his orations both ith word an senti-menis, expressing at the passion of the mind with suci force an spirit, and with such a variet os gures h alone, a Leosthenes id o scrupleto affert, could produce a discours that was at o iace livet an solid.
Callisthenes, spe aking of the tragedies of Eschylus, telis us, that he
Phidine. A amous courtes an See Fontenelle' Dial of the Dead.' Lis . For an illustrationis this doctrine, and the many piet ty thing that are Didiponit, I reser in reader toralia flemur' 's Characteristi cs. Gro fo. See Plutarch de et Rhet.
Cnil ibe es. J Plutarch, in his Symposium, say the fame thingis T liylus, ut oes notattribute trio Callii thenes.
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alWays Wrote them hen hema in liquor, as f the wine ad harpe ne his wit, and inspire hima ut o so Demosthenes, wh drank nothin butwatera hicli ad Demades say, ther spolie by the mater, ut hewrotei it an so eat an terse e re his orations that Pytheas se id theysmel of the lamp. Thus far e go hand in hand, and I can say early the a me illi regard
humani ty. hi fair an honest management of the public money, his geat
your's, Ot illisland in g, is certaini a much easter underia Ling for allthe prat se of Homer mus menter in his poetr alone, hil si the viriues of Demosthenes a re Ialy to numero us like the luxuries of a Sicilian table, or a grand an magnificent spectacle, here ali the senses are delighted, and
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you know not hat to admire mox and thus it is illi regar to the great orator, hether o conside the spright lines of his it the orce of his eloquence, his temperance and fortitude, his contemptis iches, his justice, humani ty good ense and discretion in very or and action. When 1 ou calicio lin his laius, his embassies, his seeis; he yo th in o Megara, Euboea, Boeotia, Chios, Rhodes, ByZantium, and the Hellespont, lach avariet os merit distracts yOu, and ou knON O Thich way to turn, or halto fixit stipon. Thus Pindar, revolving various things in his ind, cries ut, Shalles of olden Melis, o o Meet
Ismenus sing or Cadmus, o the so Inso Sparta far renown'd, o fiam tu Thebes, C all- subdu in Hercules, O chant The chear ut Bacchus, o the nuptia rites
O fair Harmonia pAnd, in like manner, ouano no Rhicli first to celebrate, his eloquence, o his life his oratory, or his philosophy, his artis ruting anu directing the
that ourare nolint a poet, an can write good verses, ut that ou re an Orator, and can rite excellent prose also.
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at a los than Uer. THERS AGORAS.
years there fore our ad viceris of no service. THERS AGORAS.
lam trach, ut to leave the old, and stri Ee ut a ne Nine. THERS AGORAS.Yo put me in indis ' Pauson' scheme.
Pausen. A celebratediainter mentioned by Elian Plutarch, and other ancient, item.
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ine to tali care os in brat also.
tili ou persorm our' : ou have give me a fine reatin the Birth-da os Homer, and are preparin another sor Demosthenes.
Accordingly, aster reciting the est of his poena, to hicli I ave iis due pratis, Ne ea home tu his Eouse, here, though illi soni dissiculty, he
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EN COMI UM os DEMOSTHENES. sat
he, at longili, found the book, hic hes too and carried way illi me an no ooner ad I gone through, than I resolvet to read it to ou, wor for ord, ithout altering a syllabie of it nor is sculapius es honoured at his festival by the repetition os verses rom Aliso lemuso Sophocles, than f the were o make ne Ones On the occasion Atthes ast o Bacchus, the have est is repeatin ne Poena S, comedi es, an tragedies; ut content thenaseives illi the old ones, a pay in thesam honou to the god S. The book elisis in that partis it hic li concern the matte in harad, and whicli is rit te in dialogiae, that Antipatera ad has received notice of Archias carrival This Archias inhicli sonae of the Ouia men here may, Perhaps, noti acquainted with was the person commissione. to et g onthose ho ha been proscribed, and who had received order froni thea ingto bring Demosthenes to hina, ather by fair means, i possibile, has by force of arnas, ut o Calauria. Antipater a no in dat ly expectation offeeingit in and as Oon a he eard that Archia Was returned orderedhim into his presen ce o as e came in but the book Wil teli ou therest i runs thus
Health an happines Nili atten me, is o have brought Demosthenes.
That, a farras as in my oKer, I have done fores have gor at that remalias of him in his urn. ANTIPATER. Archias, o have ruine ali in hopes hat Nil his ames vati, feshave no Demosthenes pARCHIAS. His Qui, aing, could notae retainedi violence. ANTIPATER.
AIModemus. J his poet is no mentioned, I belleve, Pan other riter, though, b hisbeing put into compan with Sophocles, e liould conclude hi in to have been a manis stimedistinction. This dialogue i curious and entertaining and gives us theaighest idea both of Antipaterand Demosthenes. Voti. II. v x xR-
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ANTIPATER. Nou is ait an truth have any charitas, i What is sirin and incorruptibi edeserves esteem an approbation honest is honesty even in an nem y, and virtve preci ous, here verrit is found nor ould I vis to bellave Vorsethan Xerxes, who, hen it a in his o ero destro Bulis and Sperchig, because e deservedi admired, et them ree Demosthenes, honaci mettruice at Athens, though Phad not eis ure to converse illi im, hos eastions and character I as etl acqua intex ith, was a man whonici ad aloeay the highest veneratio for, and that, not, as may be suppo sed sorhis eloquence alone , though Python and the Orator of Athens e re nothinnwhen compare to him, hether e conside the elegance of his style, the harmoh of his periods, the force of his argu maenis, o that wonderit poruero conviction hich he was possessed of Very orryci Nas thates convenedihe Greeks, inducedi Python an his promisses, in orde to refute the Athenians, hen the thunder of Demosthenes as Xerte against me his eloquence mut up very Venue against M butes conside this nobi quali tymeret as an instrument, made se of by him, to carr on his political designf. Whatri most admire hi in sor, as his good ense an discretion that fortitude hici he hewed in adversi ty, and which nable him, evenwhen almost over hel med beneath the waves of ill- fortune, to ris superiorto it, and stem insensibi os anger Uam satisfied that Philip also entertaine the sanae opinion of him once, I remember, hen e was old that Demosthenes ad inveighed against hina in the se nate, and Parmenio, in an an gry ood, a throNing ut sonae bitte sarcasm on thi great orator: Demosthenes sal Philip has a right to spea with reedom forti is the ni Grecian orator homQ have no in m pay though I ad much ather rust olim, could have secured him, than to in navi esand armies. Amongst mos of his rethren, both here an in Boeotia, have catterest y gold herds, catile, and annua present : ut I could oner take ByZantium by storna than ribe Demosthenes. an Athenian haranguin at Athens, replied Parmenio, Was to prefer me
B et antium. J his cit Was consideredis theae o Greece Philip Was revente fromtakincit by the eloquence of Demosthenes.
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Thu didrae spea to Parmenio, an frequently Nould e tal to me in the fame style : Once, in particular, I remember, hen I sterne tineas, , und displea sed at his endita Diopithes to Athens re o afra id Didhe, aughing, of hat Athenian Headers, O thei armi es , an do againstus poliet piraeus, their arbours, their feet an armies, I despi Q hat ean a se of Bacchanal do, hociive in the id os langs an festival p is
Demosthenes alone ere absent, e sinould more asil take the city than byali, could do ei ther illi force or fraud, O gain ver the Thebans and Thessalian : ut heris for ever Walchful, et Zin ever opportunit to resistour attachs, and by his counset alone, render fruities ali cur operationscitry what we ill design hat Ne ill ac as Ne Will, e cannot escape hi m. In amord, this manci the sole obstacte totur conquest and successi; and is
he had been present, e mouid o have alien Amphipolis o Olynthus, Pylae, Chersonesus, no any thing hicli e posses round the Hellesponi. Ide stir u his felloK-citi Zens, even against 'heir ilici hen the are ulled, cis it Nere, to seep, by mandragora, in rouses them frona thei lethargy, and with his eloquence, burias up and destroy thei indole iace, litti soli citous of thei favo u or affectio : he applies the profit of the theatre tolli supportis the army, and reformed the corruptiale of the navy by Ω-lutar laws: the dignit of the empire, hicli, for a long time, ad been miserabi impatred he hath restored he hath calle thema ac tora reis
membrance of thei ancestors, an a nobi emulation of hat passse at Marathon and Salamis heris perpetuali forming ne alliances, and reati es, with the states of Greec it is as impossibi e in mori, to concea an thingsrom, o deceive, o corrupi hina, as it a so the Persianain t bribe
Aristides his mala, there re, Antipater, is more to e reade than