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Cleon Irostis. J A celebrate philosoplaer, an disciple o Plato, lio, aster avin read that nobi Writer' Treatis o the Immortalit of the Soul, aid, astur Cato did, Plato thou reason'st well, and immediatet thre himself Domin hiilli och in to the sea. Ranting. J Gr. μὴό, tu See Tilron l. i. Lartis. J Theior os Icarus giving a nam to the Icarian se is to xvellanore t nee Danote of explanation. Luci an makes the sanae Lindis allusion a this in another place. See Icaro-Menippus This is a preti strong collaterat proo that the Philopatris a criti et byLuci an as an imitator of his style ould hardi have ventured, o openly, tote illi In theman whomine endeavoured to represent.
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hi stomaeh. ne of the learned commentator says, his Mun orthy os Lucian, an declare, that he Philopatris, heresere, cannot possibi be iis ca se nothing, a must ruit, so ver absurd in it. . Thὸβψι. J i. e. The stips in the Propontis, the tract of ea, lyingietineen the Hellesponti bulle outh, and the Bosphorus Thracius to the noriti, into hicli the Euxine eis it a very
dictus, says Tabernus, de homine qui totus auris perinde ac Argus oculus, spoken os a man whoi, alliar, as Argus was allisye.-Imaould isti, says Luci an in another place speahingis e nos se her, like an Argus, illi in Wbole Ody, λα τω σωματ- Se his Judgmen o
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. What say o the to Mearin by Apollo, the prince os propheis and physicians λ
And imitate inimitable sorce. See Dryden's Virgil, book vi. l. 788. Ethiopia. See Homer' Iliad book i. l. 83. his avnt of Iupiter' to Ethiopia seemst have give Lucia more offence than an os the ridiculous o cruei actions attribute tollim achesis perpetuali alludinga it. Tri Eagis. Alluding to Jupiter' affair illi Ganymede. I In regitiue t. Thigh, ead, c. a betore mentioned. 4. δοι fast ou. Luci an here runs through almost the whole corps of pagan deities, and reais them ali,ith the fame degre o ridicule an contempl. Gesner, notinithstanding, telis us, in a stat
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Hang that libidinous imp of Jupiter, hocis himself a lea and wichaea
ibat it a notiu Lucian who inrote the Philopatris, ut his ame-Ωke, ho dixit purposelyto aucti, at Christiani ty, in complimen to Iulian the Apostate. 1,ould beg, ho ever, o sug- est, that it is, to the lati degree, improbabie, that an writer hould hin of paying his courtio sueti an emperor a Julian, by ridiculing that hea the mythology, and laughing, as he heredoeg at that religion, hichiis master se etealous endeavoured to re-estabiisti. Crisses. J This Luci an has atready taken notice of in No or three Places. See Iupiter the
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Tel me then, What se is the Gorgon os, and Wh does Minerva ea itatae breast p
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I an bod ea cutis a virgin' head it ili immediately beeonae a wondersu thinxto righten the multitude illi G I ad known thisae fore, I could have brought yo a sine quantit os Gorgon stomu Crete,
The uulnmun. The Athenians, no content illi orsi lippin an infinite number of loealand tutelary deities, erected an altar, an dedicat exit, τον γλ ω - to the Unknown God a kind of tacit ac nowledgment, that the were dissatisfiex ith ait thei deities, and had semeimperfeci notionis a true God, a superior to them. an God J Arch and sensibi : Dom his, and many the passages, it appears to me, inspite os Gesner, and ali the learne commenta tors that the Philopatris, ii not rittent Lucian, is a vor clos and happy imitationis his style and manner. From Crete. J The crities are much pugaled abolit his lory, of whicli histor gives no satisfactor account. Some refer tuo a tale of Ursula, rom Britalia, illi her eleven thousandvirgins, ut in ieces by the Hunns. his makes the story, and consequently the author of Philopatris, ver modern indeed Other teli us it alludes tora number of chaste virgins sacrificed in the time of the em peror Iulian. Aster ali, it is, probably, nothinibu a lye of thes ητας αει ια οι, the lyin Cretans, current about that period, and laid hol on by the author,
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'the Gr. υ,ν Wδοντα Θεον, αελαν, αρι τον, ηανιμα, a parod o nomer ludicro us lyapplied quo Luciani personam says Solanus the commentator , melius agere videretur parodias etiam in rebus gravissimis nebulo inserendas discit. - ne rom m. J r. Ε εκ τριων και ἐξ re τρια Luci an or hoeve was the author Ofth Philopatris, is here suppose to allude to an to ridicule the Christi an doctrine of the Trinity. The maniae of ex preti iniit differs, e ma observe, frona the amous verse of St. Ioha, out whicli se an pages have been rit ten, and whic this passage is falxto allud to.
Epist. of St. Jolin, h. V. Ver. 7. I proves, o ever, that the doctrine of the Trinit was generali received abo ut that period, and consideredis a distinguissa in par of the Christianere ed, it ould n ut therinis have been taxen notice of by ur auehor. See Jup. rasadus,
This eat Mou, e . A fragmen frona Euripides. Ni omachus. A celebrate Writer on arithmetic See Fabricius, Bibl. r. 21. I Four, Uta Alludi nito the celebrate tetrach tys o Pythagoras. The judicative po vers in ali hings, saysie, reuour, ind, science, opinion, an sense ser hicli reason a strange oti tote lare , Pythagoras es that the ou of man was a tetrad. very th in depend onthe tetrach tys, ascit roo an principi e the Nord tetrach tys, there re, as sed by this philo sepher an his discipies as areat ath his scholars sivore, o by Pythagoras, ut by the great person inlio communicate to them the tetrach tys. For a farther account of this see Stantey' Histor of Philosophy, ari Pythagoras. measti ring. J Allud in to that passage in Aristophanes' comed of the Clouds, here Socrates is introduce and ridiculed, a computing the different paces, hicli a ne passes ver in walhing, eaping, c. s Thir. heazen. J his, it is very confident lyra mea ted, must glance at the aposite St. Paul, and
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and dar night, an Erebus, and Tartarus no a b et Was artii, ir, Or
that ha soliores, relative o bein saved by ater, c manifesti alludes o ur avio uta The whole, oKever, in his dialogue, o what is supposed by the critic t reflectis i the Christia religion, and iis rite and cere montes, is, in in opinion, o ob bure an impersedi, thalno true udgmen canae forme concern incit. The aut hor, hoeve he was seems ni toliave conected a te in stat tered reporis bout a nexu religion, probabi the Christian the natureand merit of hich he was very litile acquainted With. The si glit an contemptuous mann erin hic hine reat it, is not, there fore, at ali tot reon derexat, nor ilioulo it Pthii k be attributed to any se illed design, a many have eade avo ured to mali his belleve, cs decrying orabusing t. Lucian who, Ilam ather inclined to thinh, rote the Philopatris, has frequently been condemned Iano in no why, as a bitte enem to the Christia religion, thoughie has nid, after all, ver litile a bout it, ein a matter hich it is apparent he ne v nothing of Iovisti nomore harmi ad been done to iti semel iis trienti. The bi, db. Se theo .pi of Aristophanes, . 696. - De w-fong et J Gr. βραδυγλωσσος suppo sed to mean Moses, who, in the Durth chaptero Exodus, ver . O. alis himselfi νγ 22, 1 nam no eloquent, ut now of speech, ando a sto longuel his account of the creation, though it resembles the Scripture history, is noe, e ma observe, in the word of Moses, ut meret a traditiona relation, gi ven pro
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Ο Hercules also, e speaks thus: Theareat Alcides, Iove's nequali 'd son, To Juno' hat at length resign'd his breath, An sun the victim os ali conqu'rinideat h. Oura, holeritis, e telis us in another place, is ruted an directed by satealone,
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But an ista lyLament his sola by great Patroclus lain. Yo can se nothing there re concerning them, even though ou couldbe snalchedipa heaven illi ou ne master, an initiate into his mys
us, that is a mari oes sicli a thiniit halli attended illi suci, an sueti consequences and Pheloes the contrary, With something very different fromit, as illi regar tori Achilles, ho says of himself, My fates longincet Thetis ere disclos'd,
piter himself does notae teli gisthus himself, that i he abstat ne fromadultery, and the murther of Agamemnon the Fates ad decreed in aloniliseu ut that i he committe thos crimes, e strould die suddent λ have osten prophesed, myself, in his manner, Dyou kill an body, oumust expedi that Nemesis illisvertake ou but is o do not, o stat I
Nor fiat thoesion the destin 'xperio find, D not ou laint se by ali his, o ambiguous, ille, and ill- undedaal the fictions of the poets aret a no regar to them, therefore, for the future is ou expect tot en tolle in the list of the good an virtuous.