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He id nor, a la ruere, ' cui offlis philosophydrom an particular piece,
butilended ali the sedis an opinion together, and nev cre peni declare twhichae a most attache to He ee med on the whole, ather partialto Socrates, though, in his habit and anne of iving e resembled Diogenesa no that, illi regar to dier, e carrie things to extremi ty thath might be gage a and admired, ut eat an drank like ther people, without pride and ostentation, a diate With ad both public an private.
His conversation a fullis Attic grace, i thout the mixture of Socraticirony, so that those ho hepta in compan neve ei ther contemned his ad- vice, o dreade the severi ty of his reproose, ut e re always agreeabi improved, growing more decent an orderi y, as Heli a more chearii, and formi nibettera opes of an hereaster. He Was neve nois o quarreis me, and though he would osten chide, was neve angry he was severe o the offence, ut pardone the offender, lihe the good physician, ho eat the distemper, ithout freti in at thepatient to commit aulis, e thought was human, o repent of and Correet them, a divine Living in the manne he id, he never antedan thinisor himself, ut always endeavouredo provide his friend withwhat was necessar : ut hen the were exalte wit the good hings ofliis, he would rem ind them ore rati an transitor the were; and whenthe complaine os penury, anishment, dise ases, o old age, ould com- for them, by observing ith a mile, that hat amicte them ould Monbe gone and past, that in a mort time there ould e no more remember- ance either of good or evit, ut at would erio a long and last in Deedom. His constant employment a to reconcile contendin brethren, and ahepeace belween an and wila. When theseopte mutini ed and rebelled, e interposed ea nably, and prevalle o the greater par of them to submit, an tenditi rea nable assistance to thei country. Such Was his philosophy, gentie, mi ld chearful, an benignant; noth in deepi affecte him ut the di sorderi deat os a frien d asae esteemed friendmip the great est bieT- in o life he was himself there fore Lindisnd benevolent to ali tot a' man was a lassicient titie to his regar an affection, nori didrae ithdrais
Cut ostfJ Greeli, κίν αποτεμ ομενος the de of cuttingi a plece of philosophy, ike alitos Cloth, rom another man coat, is extremel droli, and qui te in Lucian's best mannem; some critics, notinithstanding, have tot dis that Demonax a no writtent hi m. et man. J Homo dum humini nihil a me alienum puto. Ter.
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himself frona an but such as ere iched beyon ali opes of mendinent. Venus and the Graces, in mori, attende on every th in he spake or did, and . a it is Did in thes comedy persuasion Nel upo his lips.' Notin ly the principat person in Athens, ut the whol elingdom eheldhim mitti admiration, and ooked in to in a a divinit though hea fir offende many of themi his boldnes and Deedom of speechri norwere there anting an ' Anytus and elytus, o ris up against an accusehim; to say that he never a seen to offer u sacrifice, normas initiate into the Eleusinia mysteries these he confuted like a man appearex fore theassembi cro ned, and in a hi te garment, an ans ere them, parti in amee and genti manner, and parti With more asperit thanae as Ont.
With regard to the sacrifice, Monder not he cri ed, o Athenians that I have no sacrificed to Minerva, henes teli ou that heu standet notri need ofm offerings. Andis to the mysteries, he Did the ea n of his notaeingi nitiated was that lci the were ad heriliould notae able to concea themfro the uni nitialed, hicli ould deter them Dona the orgies and is theywere good, he was afra id that, ut o good, ill and philanthropy, he houldbe apirio disclos them to every body hereupo the Athenians, ho h adstones in thei hand ready to destro hina, ere immediatet reconcile tohim, and rom that time held him in the highest estimation Though in thebeginning of his discourse he had been ver severe pon them, ou behold
I bal here sudo in a se of his mari and excellent Drepartees.
Comi θ. J rom a fragmentis Eupolis.' Anyrus am Melditus. J The accuser os Socrates.
Reparteos. Lucian is, Phelteve, almost the oni Gree aut horioin extant who has deneended into the familiarit os conversation, and transmittexto us the good hing saida his friend an acquaintance confidere in his light he maybe calle the Ioe Mille os antiqui ty. What he has gi ven us fio Demonax areis various kinds like Martiat' Epigrams. Sunt bona sunt quaedam mediocria sunt mala plura. Though many of them are potnted sensibie, an to the Purpose, et in these, as eli as in most
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η Favorinus bein informedi sonae bod that Demonach ad Iahaghed athis discourses, particulari thos that were mixed illi inolim verses, and si id that the were oor, Nomanish, and unbecomin a philosopher, camerio hi in and asked what fello that was ho ad ared to ridicule his performances man, replied he who has ears that a re not orae imposedon : V the ophist stili pressing on him, siue Ho it appened that roma childae asin philosopher λ' to hichie an Mered ni because roma child I be came a man. V Thessam e Sophismas hed him another time, hat sectis philosophersae belonge toQV How d you know, aidae, that Iam a philosopher λ' and then laughexto imself, heia the ther enquiringwhat he smile at smile, say he, to thin hoNoo can preten to judge of a philosophe by his eard when o have non of hJOUri n.
most of the bo mois anded down torus, there stem tote a stillaesi, and want of that eas and poli teness, hich e frequently meet illi in modern times. I in inclined, indeed, ohel leve that conversation is ne of the se things in hicli, excet the ancients andes have, myself, eard more bo mois, hen in compan with oote, Garrich, arton Goldsmilli, Burke, c. in ne day than would have serve Lucian' friend Demonax, sor a twelve
Dibagoras J Pythagoras erioined his discipies, during thei noviciate, a ve ear' si
Fin Med. J Greek, meαιασραε, unum inquit, puer, noVi say the Latin translation, o tπεραινεσθαι, περα is, say the commentator on his pastage est dialecticum, significatque essicere,
vel concludere aliquid ex sumptis inibusdam. The Latin translator, essee, could no fiud a ruordin his longue hich Would properi explain the ambiguous Gree one.-But ours, hichaears more analog to the original, is a tolerable substitute, and expresses the meanin preti exactiy.
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Demonax, o hadine there.' nother time Demona laugh ingrat a common Olympic restier, for earing an embroiderei coat, the fello struck
he an Mered liberi and the ther replying that infinite numbers ere Dee,. mone Didae, but thola horaeither hope nor ear. That, se id the ther, is impossit, te, for e re alis aves to those No passions ' Mi ut is, sat De monax, o properi conside human assairs, ou Nili find that the arenot orth et ther of ou hopes o fears seeing that both happines an miser are here of such hor duration. Pereo rinus the philosopher, commoni calle Proteus, sed in reproachhim for laughing to much, an dieingetoo familia Mithieople Demonax, Didae, o do not aes the ' dog weli: No, Peregrinus, replied he, noryo the man. V When a certain natura philosophe was disputing about the Antipodes, he ookaim to a well, and shewinihi hismae mado in the water, cri ed, in re these What you cali the Antipodes V Another man boasi ingone da that he was a great magician, and ad a certain charm that could persuade eopte to ive ina an thingae anted here is nothiniso surprisin in that, laid Demona am a magici an as ei as ou, and fyo wil solio me to the baher's, o stat se me, illi a litti charin and
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potio that Phave bout me persuade hi in to give me sonae bread; 'de thentook out a plece of money, hic licis a good a any in ἰantation hat ever. When the amous Herod see medieyond meas ure amicted at he tanti mel νdeath of his dear o Pollux, and i ad orde rei his chario an holus to ego ready an a suppe prepared for him he came to hina, and a id. Ihave go a letter for o frona Pollux. Herodii ving in o the deceit, eri edand what oes he want of me λ' me is very an gry, replied Demonax thatyou domo come olim. Thessanae Herod weepinibit teri for the los of his son, and muttin himselfi in darkness, he came to hina, and old hi m He was a magician, and could rais up the hade of his son, n condition thath produce three men hora ad neve grieved forinny thing. V Herod egi n- ning t doubi an hesitate, for in truth he could findisutio suci personu mo ridiculous, then, is it in ou faid Demonax, o imagine ourself theoni un happy man, hen o cannot findisne ho hath notriasted of mis fortunei me sexto aughiuch at those, lio, in thei conversation affecteduncouth an antiquate phrases; ne of these e in rem arkabi absurd, hesai to him, Paciso a plain question in intelligibi term s and o an Mer me in the langu age of Agamemnon. ne of his companion sayin tollim, iet usino to the temple of AEsculapius, and pra toraim for the healtho m sonu' Dost thou suppose, at DemonaX, that Esculapius is deas, that he cannot hea us pra jus as et frona hence. ne a hearinga Noignorant philosopher in dispute, ne astini olim questions and the otherreturning antae r nothing to the purpose, One of these, sayche, eems tobe milhinx he-goat, hilst the other holiis the eve unde him.' Agathocles the Peripatetic, boasting that he was theiraeandini logician, QDyouare theirst, Did he, o cannot e the only one and is ou are the on lyone, o cannotae the fissi. When Cethegus, a man os consula digni ty, was sentiro Greecerint Asiario represent his ather, hessallandi id a number of ridiculous things, and one of his companion Observe i, that he wasa ondrous great seo l. V oo enough, aid Demona X, ut there is no great wonde incit. When Apollonius the philosophe went oss illi severat of his scholars to attendin, and instruet the emperor, here goes 'Apollonius,
in of thes, M. J The image here is a good one, and put us in mind of the old proverb,. great cry and littie wool, as the an seid whente meared his Hog.' Apollonius. The oke lies entiret Lin the name, and meret asin puncis no amisi. Apo, lanius Rhodius Wrote a Poem o the Argonautic expedition to ho Demona alludes, and aa, the
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Didae, illi his Argonauis.' A person asci nihim, hethera thought thes ut was immortat, es, sat he it is immortal, ut justis every thing else s. ' Concerta in Herod, e rem arked that Plato as right in saying that me had more Quis than one, ther reis Hero could neve have adted so ridiculous y a to et ' Regillas and Pollux up to supper ithaim, acifthe were alivea ith other molisti actions of the sanie ind. He had thecourage once, to as the Athenians at one of thei public assemblies, hythe excluded barbarians frona thei mysteries, hen Eumolpus who institut-ed them, as himself a barbariani Thrace.' Whenae asinoindito se in the inter, ne of his frien d sal to hina, Are o no afraid fie ingdrowned an eat by the iam ' est o ut be ingratitude in me, replied Demonax, o murmur attein devoured by fissi, heia I have, myself, devoured many of them.' He ad vised a certain rhetorician, ho declaime miser-
the Argonauis en after theloiden fleece, o Apollonius the philosopher, and his scholars, sol lo ed the emperor for ha the could get so that here is a doubie mea ning in the application. Emer this e)p. t Demonax, e see, it ali his philosopli and virtve a a Materialist, and probab ly, ad n belle idea of true religio than probabi his frien Lucian. t Regillas mi Poliux. J His truo sons Cho were ead. e have ali hear of a parallel absurdit in a modern lad of fas liton, ho ad se partia an attachinen to the famous poet Congreve, as after his death to et up an mage of him, resse in his usual manner, hicli steaddressed, and used to converse iti, a farce Whicli, the say, a carrielon serissime time.
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tomb-stone, it asini these two lines,)Admetus lies bene ath his stone, His belle parta heau' i gone. It is o sine an epitaph, se id Demonax, meth in ksci, is it a there at ready. Somebod observin that his calves ere a litile struiah, sil men's generalty are, cri ed What is the mean ing of this Demona xl te replied with asmile, Cerberus has it me, that is all. V See in a Lacedaemonia oneda whippin his servant most uia merci fully, he ried ut, mo no putyoursei thus pon a levet with ou save. V A iri, hos name a Danae, hau ingra law-suit illi herirother, 'o are in the right, child, aid he, to go to laru for 3 ou remo Danae the aughter of Acrisius.' He was abiiter enem os ali hos e lio professe philosophy, o for the Ak of truthbut rom pride an ostentationa an observing a certain Cynic, it his wallet an cloah, and a pestie inste ad os a stast , ho calle himself the rivalo Antisthenes, Crates, and Diogenes; Tellio such lies, si id heu him, thou ar the disciple of Hyperides.' Seein somei ad restiers, ho, contrar to the laNs rescribed, e re biling one nother, eli, a id he, may out wrestiersi calle lions. V What he sat esto a proconsul as mari, an dat the a me time ver severe pon him he was ne of those, it seems who pluc the hair stom offa hei legs, and ver par of theiod : a Cynici got up and accused hi in os effemina cycl pon vhicli, the proconsul eingviolently nraged ordere hi to e nocked on the ea d, o sent intobanishment: ut Demonax intersere an beggedaina ostri teli inihim, It
' 'peria f. J It oes no a ear lio his Hyperides as the Latin transsaro says, Pistoris vel pistillarii ; that he was a ba r so that the okedies in the pestie. Was
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Demonax orde alliis hai tote alien is immediately.V nother ho was appotnted by the em peror to the govern ment of a large province, and the
command of the arm y asked him ho heriliould manage alNay to governweli: eep our temper, sat he hear very thing, and a nothing.VSOmebod ast in him hether e eat honey-cakes, Dost hin k, Dysae, bees ver ad thei comboso scolsλ' Seein a statue in the portico illione hand last, saysae, Gynaegirus is honoured by the Athenian witha brage statue V Se in Rufinus, the lanae philosopher, opping abo ut the Lyceum, There is nothinis impudent, sat he a clam Peripatetic.' Epictetus one da ad visin him to marry, and get hild ren, o that it asbymo means unbecomin a philosophe to leave omethingieliin him inroom of himself Then, se id he. yo must ive me one Of', Jour daughters.' What he Disto Herminus the Aristotelian, is ell- orth recording ob serving this rascat do in every thing that was bad, and alWays aiking, at thelam time, o Aristolle and hisa categories; In good truth, sat he Herminus, o are orth of them all. The Athenians havini me intentionto bud an amphitheatre for gladiator in imitation of the Corinthians, hewent into the assembly, and crie out, me fore o determine his potnt, O Athenians, ou hould destro the altar os mercy.' When he came to Olympia, the Elians ould have decreed hi in a statue of brasi Bymo means,
either for Socrates o Diogenes.' IJeard hi mince teli a lawyer, te thoughtlaw of very litti service to an Lind for the good id notiandri need os, and the bad Nere neve the bet ter for them. He sed frequently to repeat
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He always admire Thersites asina indis Cynic philo pher. Being Ω-ed, latch of the philosophersae likedies Q They are ali excellent, salilhe, ut Socrates I venerate, admire Diogenes, and love Aristippus. He lived illi ea a hundred, ithout patia, ries, o di sorder; ithout be-inibvrthensonae, or unde obligations to any man was alway serviceable tollis friends, an neve had an nem y. Not ora ly the Athenians, ut allGreece so loved an hono ured im, that heia' appea rei in public thenobles rose ut in res pedesto hina, and there as an universa silence Eveni extreme id age, he went about rom ous to ou se supped, and lay alinight whereve he lea sed Ohemaster always considerinthimself as honoured by the presence of sonae god, o tutelary genius. The sellers of read, Wouldie hina, as e passe a long to accepi sonae frona thei hand and happy ere they rom hom he would receive it Thesboys, too, Rould offer him fruits an cali in thei fallier. On a seditio that ad been rat sed ut at Athens, his presen ce alone ut an en to the tumuit for themoment he appeared in the assembly they e re ali silent: e perceived thei si iam and repentance, and without ab in any th in to them, ith
dre v. When e found he was o longe able o heli himself, he spoke tollisse ho ere about him in the langu age of the Cryer at the public games.
ter, aidae, for thenes hallie of sonae service even after death. VThe Athenians honoured hi in illi a magnificent funerat, an long a- mented hi m. The even cro ned illi garland s, and held a sacred, thesloneae sed to restipon. very bod attended alii buriat, and the philosophers carried hi in to the grave on thei moulders. have ut together these se circumstances relatinxto Demonax that posterit ma kno vino trul great and excellent he was.