The works of Lucian

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wea to represent her. POLYSTRATUS.

Load one. J The virtves and properties of the magnet Nerea noKn to the ancients theereat se and advantage of it a reserved to stan a the head os modern discoveries.

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Alcamenes λPOLYSTRATUS.

should te incurious, inde ed, o let the mobles of his performances

escape me.

Maia a time.

Gaia. Venus. J It is rem aikable that his litti plece of Lucianli akes notice of severaIfamous Work of ancient sculpture and ainting, neve mentione by any A ther author, and gives sis hi gh de of thei extraordinar merit.' Lemnian. A samous statue o Minerva, b Phidias, an se calle froin the inhabitants of Lemnos, ho dedicated it to her See Pausan Attic.

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ing. The Gree expression is inimitabi elegant, oculorum mobilem hilaremque gratiain, Agreeable o Anacreon s

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Paca a. Greek, Πακατην, probabi mistaken by the transcriber for panchaste, mentioned Elian , and who, a Plin telis us, a the sanae a Campaspe, the celebrate beauty, and

To grace a monarchisia his boundinisteed, nymph in Caria, or Maeonia bred, Stain the pure iv'ry, with a lively red. V illi equat lustre various colour vie,

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Graces Indisti the Loves nited that ance round her; ho hali imitate, or lio hali describe them p POLYSTRATUS. Lycinus, thou speakest os ometh in more than human, sent dorun romJove, the progen of heaven But, et me, o was me employed LYCINUS. She held in her hand a book doubled in reo, par of hicli a seeme toliave gone through, and was reading the ther; spea hin at the same timeto ne of her attendanis, ut so ON, thates could o distinguisti, hat heseid. When ste miled, sae me vexa et o te eth so hi te, si even, o eliput together, it is impossibi e to describe them to ou Dyou have seen abeautiful necklace of the mos brilliant earis, at of the fame si geland splendour, ou may have sonae de of thema adoriae Mas the werea herrub lips, and shining through them; ille Homer' bosim o ivory, notone broade than another, liching ut, o separated asithers have them, ut allis one fige and colour, and entiret even upo the whole, he was a mostastonis hingight, an infinitet beyon Our conceptions os mortali eau tr. POLYSTRATUS. Stolina moment: or, by hat ou have aid, Pana iure Iano who heis; ou old me hat counts ste a Mos, and that he had eunuch and sol dier attendingier; it must e the celebrate beaut Who lives illi the

LYCINUS. What is hermanae λPOLYSTRATUS. That to is of and lo vel like herself the fame a that of ' Abradatas 'swifeci ou must have heard of the modest charmin g,oman whom Xenophon

LYCINUS I remember he wella an as osten asci re ad that beautis ut passage meth in ks Phea her speah seeler armin her humand and preparin him fortite batile.

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yota, and si eat in ly there fore, of that hic li structi ou heia, her externat ornari ut o sa nothing of her minit, norano 'o far that exceedsit in very beau ty am ter countryman, am eli acquainte With, and have os te conversed, illi her ou very wellanoN, I preser good-nature, benevole iace, magnanimi ty, earn in , and is dona, O beau tyn these, doubt-lesse, re a superior, an no to steem them so, e re a absurdis to prefert he garmen to theiody hicli is cloathed in it here the virtu es of the minii and bod a re unite in ne person, here, and there only, i true beau ty. could poliat ut numbers hos fornacis excellent, ut ho dis race it by thei manners; hos beau ty sades an dies Way, theiody confessi g, ascit ere, by it indecent actions that it is ut ed by the wormo mistresses, an evit sota l. Such omen ut me in in of AEgypti an idolatry the temple is large and ea uti tui, adorned illi precious stones, gold, and pictures; whils the od vitii in is perhaps, an ape, an ibis, a goat, or a cat Ofthes there are ut too many amongitis But beau ty alone is no lassicient, unies it is pro perly adorned no by purpi robes by nech laces, o toys; but by modesty truth, benevole nee philanthropy, and the est of thos vir-

tues whicli crown the complete oman.

os a meo and qui et spitit, hi chris in theight of God of great price.

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To the busines then Andirst , he is eloquent, an iniit : illi muchmore reason might Homer have sat of her than of the Pylia sage, Words, weetis honey, rom his ipsit stili 'd. The tone of her voice is inexprestibi sos and harmoniolas, no strong ormasculine, nor thic an diro kena ut like that Dyo ullis umbe re the age

of man hood, Nee and pleasant, si ea lingvient lyin the ear so that e vera henit ea ses, the word stili Nellis pon the sense, like echo lengiliens ut the und, and leaves a pleasin re membrance on the minit, ut of grace and persuasion; hen me sing or plays, Nans, gram oppers, and halcyons, mustae silent for compared illi her, the a re ough an in harmoniolas and the aughter of Pandion, illi ali her po er of voice Nould appea ignorant an unmusical Orpheus an Amphion, ho Q charme thei audiencethat even hings inanimate ere attracted by thei songs, is the hear her, would leave thei lyres, and liste in silent attention to her So weli oes me

know ho to preserve rue harmony, o to accompany her instrument, asne veroo e ut o time o tune, to Meli and n in hach a manner, astha the voice and lyre mali et ostreach ther, illi that eas to uch of the finger, an motion of the limbs, hic lido distinguissae the greata musicianos Thrace, an illim ho ouched the lyre ache sed his catilem Cithaeron. Trust me, Lycinus, Deve yo hea her sing, ou illiot like those hobeheld the Gorgon, e turne into lone; ut ii experience the fate of

what he harmora must be hicli passes through sicli ieeth, auxis Uttere db such lip as her's. ou have seen par of hatra teli ou imagine toyourself that ou hea the rest. That me mouid spe a correcti an in pure Ionic that he conversalion is fuit of wit an Atti grace, is by no means to e Non de rei at strea ad it

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please, O canno do me a greater favOUr. POLYSTRATUS.

Asano lege then, particulari that hiel aris es rom stud an contemplation is, oubilest, o ali human perfections the most desi rabie, et usta kerit in ali iis various forms, that our mode ma be a complete Myour's. Letier, there fore, have ali the gises o Helicon no a Clio, Polyhymnia, o Calliope, and the est ach possessing one but endo Ned with them ali, to-gether illi hos o Mercur an Apollo. Adorne With hateve poetshave se igned historians recorded, o philosophers augiit these me musti, per feministres of no motilened ni by this ye, ut totali tingedan saturate with t. of this, indoed I an produce no iv in example,

Psiali seled Socrates an his frien d Eschines, the most shil fui os ali arti sis, wholainted illi peculia energ and grace A the best modet os pruden ce, we ili ake Aspasia o Miletus, hociived illi the famous ericles, and was o renowned for heranore lege and acutenes in ali civit assairsu for quicknes O paris, penetration, an sagaci ty. These e ill ali transfer o urown portrait, though ne is but a sinali picture, themther a Colossus in comparison with her.

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ΡOLYSTRATUS. I ii ea that pictures may be very like, though not of the fame ge; asthe republicis vliens may resemble the present state of Rome, bough thelalter is Q much stiperior, ecause pota a large scale. Our hir portrait hali e taken rom Theano the Lesbian poetess. and Diotima Theano niat lendae magnanimi ty, appho her elegance of

manners, and 'l' Diotima, o only ha Socrates has o commended in her,

ΡΟ LYSTRATUS. For his e stat filixa mode in the wi se of Antenor, Arete, and herdaughter Nausicae an for her hastit and affection, e ill tahe Pene

as her quais, Without pomp, or a me station a conduct o much the more agreeable, ascit comes Domine of her an and condition : hos talio thus usethei riches, o for pride an ostentation, ut for the purposes of chari tyan benevolence, re orth of the gi sis hic li fortune esto on them the alone an scape enVy, formone grvdge riches to those ho erio themwith temperance an moderationes iuch as do not like Homer' te,

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stat ove the ead of men, and trample on very thin beneati them, whic osten happens o low and grovet in Quis unused to iches an prosperit : hen Fortune list up sicli men, and eat them in her hi gh and winge chariot, the wil not ook own elow, ut soar into the clouds, mel their ing like Icarus, and oon ali into the waves, and become thei corii and derision o alles lut those lio, like Daedalus, remember haltheir,ings a re fasten ed illi, aspire notrio hi gli, content to e borne justabove the waves, and ip thei pinion in them, these s with asin and laset and thus it is ste also gain universa admiration at wisi those reings may ver remalia unituri, hicli scalter tessing on ver id of

them.

prahe who, liheloiden Venus, charm thea eari, An disies illi Pallas in the work of art. For no oman an e compare to her, ho, a the sanae poet Dys, is, in Unmatch 'd in manners as in face, Skill 'd in acti ari, and croNn 'd with v 'r grace. . POLYSTRATUS. True, Lycinus. Let S there re, oi ou portraita together, our' of the body, it mine of the minit, an for of them ne complete pieturoto b gi ven to the present age, an de livere down to posterit : it may per-haps, e more durable than hos of Apelles, Parthasius, and Polygnotus, ascit is no made of wood, or ax, o patiat, Ut the work of the Muses,

and exhibit a perfeci resemblance of her both in body and mind.