Particularly of the LETTER 2 IF MA. 143 



" Ye Vowels, before whofe tribunal I ftand, as long as 

 " the injuries I received from this Taw here were but of a tri- 

 " vial nature, whilft he abufed my property, and encroached 

 " upon me where he had no juft right or title, I bore the lofs 

 " without repining ; and out of the deference which you know 

 " I obferve both to you and the other fyllables, I lent a deaf 

 " ear to certain infinuations which were circulated to his dif- 

 " credit. But fince he proceeds to fuch a pitch of avarice and 

 " folly, as to be conftantly adding more heinous ads of vio- 

 " lence to thofe which, with a reludant filence, I ufed to fufFer, 

 " I am forced to arraign him before ygu, who are well ac- 

 " quainted with the difpofition of us both. And I am under 

 " no fmall apprehenfion, on account of this expulfion to which 

 " I am expofed ; for while he is continually adding fomething 

 " more violent to what he has already perpetrated, he will foon 

 " thruft me completely out of my own province, fo that by be- 

 " having thus tamely, I fhall run the rilk of being no longer 

 " accounted a letter, and all of us fliall have fome reafon to be 

 " alarmed*. 



" It is therefore expedient, that not only you who at pre- 

 " fent fit in judgment, but likewife the other Letters, fhould 

 " be upon your guard againft this daring attempt. For if any 

 " one who has amind fhall be permitted to quit the poll af- 



" figned 



On the 7th of nvcm^^iy, were celebrated at Athens the feftivals called ^M^£^^la and 

 'O^xoipi^,*. See CoRSiNi Fajli Attici, Vol. I. p. 63. and Vol. U. p. 383. Alfo, Potter's 

 Jirchuol. Vot.l. p. 4l8>&423. 



• In the Greek,, the laft member of this fentence is, h Uu il »«<rS<«( tb 9»3«- to which 

 BouRDELOTius ptopofes to add, T« XoiT^k y5«V/^aT«- which he found on the margin of one 

 MS. and the reft of the letters be in the fame alarming fttuation. Inftead of t5 ipi^f , the 

 celebrated Hemsterhuis feems difpofed to read t? [1. e. t.».] i^i^^, and to render the 

 fentence as follow! : ha ut parum abfit, quin, fi quietus injuriam ultra feram, e numero 

 literarum expungar, neque alio ftm loco, quamfonus aliquis, vel, fthilus. I have no doubt 

 that the phrafe, as it is in the printed books, came from the pen of Ldcian, I, iV^ S\ ««Sa. 

 tS ?o'/3«, i. e. il t; tS :?i5« ««<r9«. V" " '"V, ««^ "" "f "' hove fome reafon to he alarmed. 

 This meaning is confirmed by what immediately follows. 



