144 ANALOGY of GREEK LETTERS; 



*' figned to him, and violently to intrude himfelf into that of 

 " another, and this too by your connivance, without whofe aid 

 " nothing is written to any purpofe, I cannot fee how the fe- 

 " veral ranks will maintain their juft rights, according to the 

 " original arrangement. But I trufl that neither you will ar- 

 " rive at fuch a pitch of negligence and floth as to permit the 

 *' perpetration of injuftice, nor, though you fhould decline all 

 " participation in this ftruggle, muft I, who am the fufFerer, 

 *' abandon my plea. 



" Would to heaven! the audacity of certain other letters had 

 " received a check the inftant they began to violate the law, 

 " and then Aa/t/S^a would not at this day have been at daggers- 

 " drawing with 'Pa», difputing whether a pum'tce-Jione fhovild be 

 " written xiinrriPi; or x.ia-ffri'Kig , or a headach fliould be xKpa.Ku'k'yiot, 

 " or y.i^paXoi.g'yiot,' nor would Tu.fji,fjba. have been perpetually 

 " wrangling, and even frequently upon the point of coming 

 " to blows, with Kaa-rw, in the fuller's fliop, infilling that the 

 " Jiocks of 'wooljhorn off by the fuller, fhould be yvcucpaXu and not 

 " xva.(poc>.a,' and the fame Ta,[/,[/M would have no longer con- 

 " tended with Aa^.jS^a, by taking away from him, and indeed 

 " totally robbing him of, the word hardly, calling it ^oy<5 in- 

 " ftead of |M.oX(5- and the reft of the letters would have aban- 

 " doned every attempt to introduce an illicit confufion. For it 

 *' is fair that each fliould abide by his appointed ftation ; as 

 " every tranfgreffion of the bounds prefcribed marks the cha- 

 " radler of a fubverter of juftice. 



" Whoever at firft eftablifhed thefe laws for us, whether it 

 " was Cadmus the iflander*, or Palamedes the fon of Nau- 

 " PLius, — (fome afcribe this important charge to Simonides) 

 " — not only determined who fliould be firft and who fecond 



" in 



• See above, p. iiS. note f. The famous Cadmus, ion of Agenor, is here called 

 nciiiv, from his connexion with Tyre, according to ancient authors origi- 

 nally built in an Wand, which Alexander is faid afterwards to have joined to the 

 Continent. See the notes of Do Soul and Hemsterhuis, in the 410 Edit, of LuciAw's 

 IVorh. I'jm. I. p. 87. AmJI. 1743. 



