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o passive that in silence, hicli is the perpetua obieet os our labour
What proper se ea n e ver ahe of our eloque iace, is e domo employit o that hic best deserves ou attention Dor, hat an e do helter than, leavingivery thing et se, confine ursetve to the great alm and enixo aliqBut, est i siouldie sal thatri dictate to ther ho the should aft, and at the sanae time, neglectri myself, I, ill a What I canin his subject. ες illi regaresto beauty thera, it is a persection, hicli at wish to obtain, but ver semare thought orthyrio posses those ho do, are, do ubile sis, the happi est os allaeings, and honoured both by god an men Amongst
the deities, lio, of heroes, were made gods, are Hercules the sonis ove, Castor an Pollux, and Helen the former, in deed, aine this pre-eminenc by viriue, ut Helen acquire it by her beauty, and was not on lychange into a god des herself, ut immortali Zed e brother also, ho, helare her ascent into heaven, ere numbere With the ea d. e cannor, moreover, nd an mortals, ut thoseolio ere rem arkable for their
beauty, ver a socialed, illi the god for his Pelops a permittet to afleambrosia ; and with his, Ganymede the son o Dardanus, ained sicli an ascenden cy Ver the great Jupiter, horaest at the deities, an fled illi him to Ida. o fond we no , o beaut was the ather of the ods, that he not ni hono ured the possetars of it illi a seat in heaven, ut, whenae en doKn to arti, changed himself into a Nan or Leda, into abuli for Europa, and in Amphitryon's hape, ego the immorta Hercules. Every bod knows the stratagem Whicli e made se of to posses thos heloved. It is extraordinar that the poetsidould representa imo us as o severe an impetuous in his converse illi the gods, in much that in his
v mkh. Euripides, who a seidom ver complaisant to the ladies, has contrar torallither ancient authors, assuredis that this celebrated beaut was perfecti virtuous that it was notri, evilio was arrie a a b PAris, ut an image or representatio of her, framed by Iuno, merelyto deceivelim, an to revenge hersei on the Trojan ovili, for giving the appleri Venus. The rea Helen as, in the mea time, conveyexto Pharos, in AEgypt where Menelaus found lier, o his retur the siege of Troy, a reconciledris, and carried heriac ruithaim. O this strange tory ac unde the apotheosis o Helen, whOm the Spartans, it seems, or- stippe a a goddess, an erected a temple toler Herodotus, Oreover, inform us, that theladies sed to involi her id, o make thei childi e liand me; and telis usis drollisor os aricli Spartan, ho ad a very gly child a person appeare to the nurse, an ad vised her toear to the temple o Helen, rom henc it returne a most beautila giri, ho was aster-ward marrie to Aristo, ing of Sparta. I this a reatly the case, and which, as e have Herodotus' Word se it, cannotae doubted the temple of Helen, e may be assured, as al-Ways preti Neli frequente .
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fedier, that he see med happy his anger a confine to Ord alonea and , in the nexi, at the deities ere struch illi terror, hen e threatene toli angi me arth and sex and yet this terribie god, lienae addresse the fair, was mild, gentie, and kin to ali lati asside the deity, est heriliould apapea dis gustii to them, and assumed the ostieautilat ornas to entice themustach deferen ce an respecti id herat Waysia to beau ty. But est, it stiouldie objected that e spea of this atheroo find Dult with upiter, than for the honour an Prais O beauty, most certaincit is,as ali ho refleet must acknowlege, that ali the deities Gere a fond of heaut a Jove imself Neptune a struch, illi the orna o Pelops, Apollo
admired Hyacinthus, and Cadmus a the favo urit o Mercury. The goddesses also blus noto achnod lege the power of heauty, and yield thei charnas to the handi omest me there is no quarre amongst them
for preceden cy, o any ther account Minerva presides ver ar, and
leave hunt in to Dianari uno takes care o nuptialis Tairs, an contendsnot illi Venus, ho guard what is committe torae care : ut in beau ty, the would ali e thought to excel, and ach imagines herself, in that, superior o at the est. The god des Stri se, ho issa es t se them destro each other, mahes se of no means but his to carr oncter designs against them. his, alone, might sussice to prove the o er of heaut nostoner a the apple een, and the ' inscription on it, than achaeli evexit inust elong to her, and that ver vote ould e in her favo ur. To Jupiter, the brother an husmand of ne of them, and ather of the thers, they referre the cause : ut though e could o asit have decide itthough there ere so an able an learn ed jud ges oscit, both amongst the Greeks and Barbarians, e submittexit o Paris; by that, alone, determining the superiorit o beaut ove strength and xvi Hom. Soareat was their ambition to e though beauti sui, that the persuade the great poet, hosngs of od an heroes, o distingui them rather o that accountthan an other. Juno oo more leastare in the epithe of 'ohitear med than in ieing calles the venerable Aod dess, daughter of
sttine. Concerning this litile incuris Neptune's, se Philostratus, Taetetes' notes onLycophron, and Cicero' Tusc. Quaest. In Prist on. J Detur pulchri maea et it beatve to the ostieauti fui. White-arm. d. y Λευκωλινος ηρα sie is at ars calle in Homer.
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I his, hil it sieKs the opinion of the od concernino beauty, is, at the sanae time, an indisputabie pro os of it superior excellen cy. Pallas preferre it to valour and wis dona, both of hicli me a the avowedia trones and protector; uno held it in higher esteem, far bove powe andem pire, an calle in Jove to bear testimon Withaer there re thereis inae aut semethinis nobi and o divine, that the god thenaseives payso much attention to it mali not e, in imitatio of them both in ordand work, alue, esteem, an protect it VThus didi hilo haran gue in prat se of beaut ad ling, that he siould have sp ken more copious o the subject, ut that ea ne a long oration asili sui ted ora east. Toraim succeede Aristippus, though it a no xvith out much dissiculi that he couldi prevalle On by the restino intreati eso Androcles, ein very loth to spe ah, he old us, after Philo a tength, however, he ega thus: Hi very osten happens that men, qui iting thos subjects that a re nol,leand se sui, apply thenaseives, ut O Vain-glory, to sicli a caninive ut litile leasure to thei hearers, et ther sty in What has been a id e re ortalking bout things of no consequence or importance: est Lmould myselffal in to these errors hiches condemn, I saali ake choice of that matterwhicli, am ure, musti agreeable o my audience, and whicli, ill afford me the amplest fiet for discussion. we were o any the subject, ne speech might have issice to ii lustrate it but beau ty suggest suci a variet arguments that o manneedie asia med that he cannot dis play it to the fuit haps he, is hecan ad something to the prat se atready esto vellis it: it is, in deed, ohonoured an esteemed both by gods and men that hos e lio iosses it areloved an valued, and those ho an it, haled ani despi sed by ali, holias eloquence nough to reat it ascit ought to e realedri ut is no man, an more than myself, an expect to handJe sicli a subject accordino, 6
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dignit and importance, there is noth in ridiculous in m attempting to spe ali concerniniit, even after Philo. Beauty has omething in it o nobie, and se divine, that to pali ver thehonour in hic licit Nas held by the gods, and confine myset to it poruerove men), Helen, the daughter of Jove, even efore he had reached the age of maturi ty, was universali admired, in much that Theseus, hocame to transae sonae Tair in Peloponnesus, fel so violenti in love illi
ago, he could have no opes of her ather' consent, e lest his OKna ing-dom, desed ali the power of Peloponnesus, and ook her awaydromae fa ther, by force of arnas, and carri exher o Aphidna, illi the assislance of Pirithous, homi e ver after se love and valuedin that account, that thesile nil statimo Theseus and Pirithous is hande doW as an example to pose terit1 hen he went do no heli, in ursuit o Proserpine, Theseus, after in a in endeavour in to dissuadeam from the enterpri Ze, accompani ed, and an heaagard of his life to serve hi in it When me returned, in heroi per ears, et Argos. in the ab nee o Theseus, ah Grecian princes, though the had the fines and most beauti l Nomen of theiriwn, ere ali ager o postes her; ut earing as the were ali ready to figlit fortier, that a civit War ould ensiae, the bound themselves by a commonoath, ointly to defend him hocilio uidi thought orth of her, and notio uiser an to attachis injure ima very one fialtering himself that thismight be his oren happy tot but ait, eaecept Menelaus, e re dilappotnted. The abi ded however, by thei agreement. When, no long after, thedispute rose among the goddesses, hic his them a the o beautilat, sit the decision as est to Paris p who. suspende by the charm of the candidates, and by the ribes the osse red lim, ane not ho todetermine : for uno promised hi the ingdom of Asia, Minerva perpetuat victor in ar, and Venus the possession o Helen reflecting, at tength, that empire might ali to the meanest an most ian orthy, ut that Helencould not ' descend to poster ity, e preferred the e oyment of her.
. Deseis ZJ his is a nemand ingenious de nce of Paris' choice. o much, ho-Ver Issaid in his par of the dialogue bout elen, hic melis to much, e must oKn os bescholassi lamp, ad confirm m observatio concerniniit.
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hen Europerar si came sortii against Asia, and the war illi Troy was declared, the Trojans, ad the resto red Helen, might have lived in eace is Greece had not contended for her, si e might lave been reed ironialiter totis and angersa ut ei ther of them thought they could fgh in anobter cause, than or the possession of her: the od thenaseives, no on lypermitted, ut even pressed thei sons to en gage in the war, though theyfore hiae that he must perissi incit, thin hiniit no Iesse glorious to die forHelen than tot descende frona the immortals but hy ne ex mentionthei sons, hen the them se lues, orae sake, entere into a more terribie war than that hicli the waged against the gianis there the were uni ted, but in his the fought against ach other, an Unans Nerable pro of hox superio beaut is to every thing ei: in the opinion os the go is nothinget se id the eve quar rei among thenaseives hil si for his lone, they notoni sacrifice theiri nisi spring, ut fought against ea ch ther, and were uounded, is it no pla in that the preferre si ea ut to very the consideration But, o wellis longe on thisae ad , et u cal to minii the astonishingbeaut Hippodamia, the tau gliter of Oenomaus, o in many obleyo ullis preferrei dea th, to life without her hen his Ovel virgin gre Nup tot martiageabie, her ather o admired her extraordinar beau ty that, contrar to the dictates of nature, e ecame deepi ena moured illi her, and wishingto kee herclo himself, to avo id suspicion, he gave ut a false hood a in famous as his guili passion), that he Nas ready to esto her onhim ho isto ut d best deserve her; to carr On his ui pose, there re, e contrived, illi the greatest artrand labour, a chariot, o forme a toe movewith wonderis celerit3 , and oined to it the wistest horses in Arcadia in thisae contended illi her admirers, layin i dorun a a condition that whoeve conquere hina mould have his davgliter, ut is the falled theywere to suffer deati, obligingier at the a me timerio accompany Ver oneo them in the chariot, that their yes bella fixe tipon her hii theydrove, the might be caret esse and inattentive. Theirst love fallin in his attempi, and lo in both his inistres and his life the rest of them, ama medio decline the contest, and detesting the crueit of Oenomaus, rusted illi ardour, ne aster another, pora thei late, ascis they iste est sacrifice their
Hippodamia. J his stor is interesting, and weli tot by Luci an the fame tale is related by Philostratus.
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So divine a thiniis beaut in the cyes both of god and mena it is a subject there fore, hici alliust de em most Northyis our discussion. Thus en led Aristippus.
FIERMIPPUS. Butes id not an much to ea their' as our 's this a m aim frona the boginning, and is ou resus me alloo have done hi therio is tono purpos ea I beg, heres ore, ou ill let me have the whole speech as ou promise d. V CHARIDEMUS. You had belle spare me, an die content illi hat ou have; oKever, asso a re so extremel de sirous of hearing m speech, thus it was: may been the fir st spe aker in prat se of beauty I moui undoubted lyhave hood in need os an exordiuma ut a I come after thers, Ila consider hat the have ad vanced in thei speechesin a ind. o prooemium tomine; specially, a the a re ali made at the a me time an place so that the may pas for ne continuet oration, of hicli ach ahes a separate part What ou have ire ad Did might e prat se sussicient for ny therthing , butin his subject there must atrua ys rema in nough unsa id, to employ the longues of tho se ho come aster us it ili stili assor vario us topics,as in a fertile me ad ON, there a re always resimo ersa attradi thelye of the traveller, I Will endeavour, there re, to seleet suci arguments as may bestillustrate it, aud spe aias bries as possibie in prat se of beauty.
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Τhose ho excet in valour, or an other viriue, Unies they conciliate urassections by conserring perpetuat obligation sinis, are generat ly the objects of enu an hatred ut by the cauti fui e re aught alii si sight wedo notinuy, ut love them beyoni mea re, ormi them a d cities, an dare neve tire dis atting on them there is more pleas ure in obeying them, than in command ing others, and the more injunctions the lay pon the happierio the mali us With regar to ther good things, heia eliave acquired them, e lookio farther; ut o beaut Ne neve thin we have nough : hould, even excet thes sonis Aglaia, bo canae illi the Grecians against Troy, o the fair Hyacinthus, o the Lacedaemonian arcissus, e mould stilla afraid that ne j et more beauti fui might arise, and be the admiration o posteri ty. In very thin beaut is the reat standar of perfection, hici allhave in ie- by this the genera fornas his army the orator ahes his speech, heia inter finissae his picturae beautycis the great endis alici and socii is also in ali hos things hic litare necessar and convenient O Us. Menelaus id not so much consuli semines as beaut in his alace, ut en dea-voured to strike the yes of ali, illi admiration a thei sirs en trance in it, nor asae dis appotnted sor heia the soni Ulysses came here, in earcho his fallier, e so admire the sumptuousnes and beaut of it, that helaid o Pisistratus, thedon o Nestor,
Such, an no nobier, in the realnas bove,
My onde dietates, is the dome of Jove; His fallier also, hente ted his hips against Troy had them fine ly ainted, that the might be age at ali the aris, in hori, is, examine them, willies unda aim a beau ty, as their great an principalilaedi. It is thera beauti fui, moreo ver, hici, exalis the virtves, hici, ad is
Sol , e. Nereus, of Whom Homer speaks thus, Nereus, in fauilles Iliaperandiloomin grace, The loveli est youth of ali the Grecia race. See Pope' Homer' Iliad book ii l. 81m. illuding to the speech o Telemachus, on laeing the palace of Menelaus a Sparta See Pope' Homer' Odyssey book v. l. 8 . The beati fui. A doctrine hicli is a large illustrate by Plato, Cicero, ord hastesbury, and many thers. Surei this is not ha Gesne calis puerile declamation, ut the work of Lucian, and is no means uuWorthy of him.
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charius to justice, to isdom, anxio valourum is his hich mahes verything valvabie, and without hicli it is mean and contempti ble. What is no beauti fui, cali base, scis, here beaut is not there couldie nothing orth of admiration. Those ho serve tyranis e cali atterers and thosealone ho practis the good an beautii do e admire to these e givethe titie of the loversi industry, and beau ty. Since heauty there fore, halli semething incit so nobi and divine, that itis universali fough after, and universali obeyed, mould wemo be ighlybla me able, is e didiot ait endeavou to celebrate, to acquire, an to preserve it UThus dides spe a concerning beau ty, omitting a number of things,hichmight have been se id, a the conversation as intready draWn to O great alen th. HERMIPPUS.
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The Character of this absurd Tyrant a Do fair an Obed of ridicule, io est ape the Notice of LUCI AN, horamgmen lis G or three Traiis of him, o mar eri bellave, b any other Author. The Satire, though Ihori, is potnte an severe itisas ather a luch circunsance, ther ore, forisur Arethor, ha NERO Ledde foreis a publisi ed. Mos of the Commentators alter that this iece mas not ritteab Loca AN The Reade must ju e for himself. MENECRATES AN MUSONIUS. MENECRATES. WA Siso that uti ingraway of the Isthmus, whicli Nero, the sar,
certaini intended, a design trul Grecian MUSONIUS. He had stili greater hings in agitation, Menecrates, Passure ou he was for laortening the saliors ob age, by Utting through about Kent stadia . MENECRATES. This ould have been very ad vania geous to the commerces both of the maritime an in land cities the lalter, ou knON, have alWays plenty, henthe forme are taken care f. iray, Musonius, is ou have no particularbia sinest, ive S an account of this expedition, hicii, ali ista hear. MUSONIUS. Thates, ill with alli heari norano. ho I an belle mahe 3 ouam ends, o Coming to school soli segree abieras his. Know then, that the love of poeir carried Nero in t Greece, lio Nas al-
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re ad firmi persuaded that themuses could no sing Meeter han himself: his ambition as to e cro ned sor his verses at the Olympi games, theoreatest and most honou rabie stati reno m a s to the Pythia n, e thought the more properi belonge lao himself than to Apollo, ho, in singin and playinion the harp, was by no means able to contend with him. The Isthmus a notismongst thos schemes hich he had premedita ted, ut happeninito se the place, he a struch illi the magnifice iace of it, and callinit mind the φ Grecianain a alie siege of Troy who divide Euaboea frona Boeotia by the Euripus and that Darius, heia he went against the Scythians, made atridge ver the Bosphorus, o forgetting the nobi exploito Xerxes ad xt this that he thought the mahini ch a communicationwouldie a high reat to the Grecians. It is the natur os tyranis, o Reverin toxicated illi poKer, tole fond of public applause. Coming ut of his tent, there fore, he inna hymn to Neptune and Amphitrite Nith a smallide in prat se
of Melicerta and Leucothoe then recei Vin a golde spade frona the rectan resident, he approached O ard the Iillimus, amongst the mouis and applauses of the multitude, an stri hin the arth three times, he exhorted thos esto homuli care of the work was committest to go on ivit l, it a laxas possibi, and then returne to Corinth, thoro 'ol satissed, o doubi that he had exceede ali the labour o Hercules the ston and more laborious paris ere done by the flaves, the leve an eri y fel to the tot of his soldiers: abo ut the twelfth ay, a we were in the id si of ur ork, a rumour,as spread that the emperori ad changed his ind, and would nothave itione the gyptians, it a sa id, ad mea surci the eight of thetoeo eas, and discovered that one Nas Utae than the other; the were astald,
there re that the is audis Egina ould e versio in ex but the wise Thales himself, bo ad the deepest lino lege of nature, Gul neve have dissuaded Nero rom ut ting way the Isthmus, hici he had et his eartu pon even more than on singin in public it Was an insurrectio of the East, and the attem p of y Vindex, to stabiisti a common Nealth, hi clidrove him ut of Greece, andiu an en to his ut ting the Isthmus, thoughhe aiked ridiculous abo ut meas uring the No eas, hicli, to m knoπ- leo emere bothis an qua height; ut his powe and that o Rome theysa is fallingiis, Myo heard yester da frona the tribune.
Grecian ling. do uot remember that this circumstante is mentione by Homer, o any
Via lex. His propraetor, ordieuienant in Gaul. See suetonius.