Patttcuhrly of the LETTER SITMA, 147 



*' do I mention fuch circumftances as thefe ? He has banifhed 

 " me entirely out of Theffaly, to which he infills upon giving 

 ** the name of Thettaly, and he has claimed an exclufive right 

 " to the very yi'a, which he calls 6ot.>.a.rra, inftead of 3^iiX«<r(r«. 

 " Nor does he even abftain from the beets in my garden, info- 

 *' much that he has not, I may fay, left me a fingle wwiro-aXo?, 

 " or little pole, which I can call my own. But you yourfelves 

 " can bear me "witnefs what a patient charaEler I am ; for I 

 " never fo much as found fault with <^, when he Hole my pre- 

 " cious (TjM.K^ayJsj *, or emerald, from me, and thruft me out of 

 *' the city of Smyrna ; nor with |, when he violated every fti- 

 ** pulation f, and even has Thucydides the hiftorian as the 

 " abettor of his guilt. As to my next neighbour 'Ps;, it was 

 '^* but an a(5l of humanity in me to forgive him, when, in the 

 " delirium of a difeafe, he planted my myrtles in his own garden, 

 '* a« if they had been called [ji,vppi»ai, and not iJuv^trUcti, and, 

 " under the preflure of a deep melancholy, ftruck me a blovv^ 

 " on the cheek. Such is the patient natural temper with which 

 *' I am endowed. 



*' But the violent difpofition of this TaZ will be ftill more 

 " apparent, when we reflect, that he has alfo injured, not only 

 ** A^Xra, ®rira. and Z?r«, but almoft every one of the other 

 " letters. Call in the plaintiffs. Hear, O ye Judges, what 

 " AsXrw has to fay. — A. He hath bereaved me of my faculty of 

 " perfeverance, requiring, in the face of all law, that it fhall be 

 ** called £n-£Xgj^e<« inftead of \vhihkyjna. — Liften, 1 befeech you 

 ** to the wailing of 0?t«, who is tearing his hair in anguifh for 

 " the lofs of his gourd, which has been changed from >toKw<.vv^n 

 *' into xo'Kvuvvrn ; and to Z?r«, complaining that he no longer 

 " hears the mu/ic of the pipe nor the found of the trumpet, orv^'iiBiv 



T 2 *' and 



* Which is rometimes written ^(tosjayjj;, as S/«vf»a is written Z,«i!{m. See the annota- 

 Vion of Hemstehhusius, 



t iri;»Swi)>, — -which Thdcvdides writes lit^miri, and fo in many other words, ufmg f 

 for r, as is well known. 



