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new altars to those, which were before 
visited in pilgrimage on the birth-day of 
the favourite saints, and to include the 
here, the patriot, and the sage among 
the worthies whose memory was conse- 
erated by public piety. 
Conmipare with the probable pupils of 
such a polished religion, the evangelical 
christians of our own age and country, 
who are the undegenerate heirs, the 
faithful copies, the living images, of the 
characters originally formed, by a like 
reading and discipline, at the Protestant 
Reformation. What meral artist would 
be proad of suchproductions? what moral 
eritic will bestow his approbation? 
Change follows its most natural move- 
ment, when it emanates from the centre 
toward the circumference; when it begins 
in & Metropolis, and radiates into the 
provinces; it is then most likely to qua- 
drate with the ultimate inferences of 
rogressive enquiry, Not so, when it 
faze at the: ciroumference and advances 
toward the centre, it is then less likely 
to be improvement; because it originates 
in enquiries less comprehensive, and in 
the comparative sentiments of fewer 
minds, The Protestant Reformation had 
this latter character: from the twilight 
edges and confines of the illuminated 
world, the northern nations endeavoured 
to blow theirown clouds over the meridian 
serenity of the south. They made tem- 
pests and bloody showers; and now that 
the sunshine is restored to their fields, 
boast of the storm, as the cause of 
tility. 
* When it is considered that, of the 
evil, which for one hundred and fitty 
years accompanied the Reformation along 
us progress, much inheres in the very 
nature and essence of the change: that, 
of the good, whieh for oue hundred and 
fifty years has been enjoyed in the seats 
of the Reformation, much might equally 
have been expected without any altera- 
tion at all: and-that a purer reformation 
from the bosom of Italy itself, was pro- 
bably intercepted by the premature vio- 
lence of Luther and his followers—surely 
they may uot hastily, or decidedly, be 
elassed among the benefactors of the 
homaa race. 
——aee—— 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Mugazine. 
STR, 
N the perusal of Mr. Wilkins’s very 
splendid. work on the Antiquities of 
Magna Grecia, I was struck by the sin- 
gularity-of a tthe of Jupiter, which he 
quotes on the authority of Pausanias. 
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Correction of a Passuge in Pausanias. 
[Oe.1, 
The passage, as it stands m all the edi-’ 
tions, is this. Attic. 40.Ke} Ass Koviow’ 
youag oux Exo opopoy. ” Now this is a title’ 
which ldo not remember to have seen 
elsewhere-in this or in any author, and 
for which I can see no cause. “ Jupiter 
the Thuuderer ;” “ Jupiter the Savioar ;” 
“ Jupiter Bleutherivs,” and the like are 
intelligible enough; batfrom what attri« 
bute or atchievemerit could the title ef 
“ Jupiter the Dusty” have been conferred 
on hin? A proper designation, one would 
think, for Vesta or Ceres. Besides, it 
cannot analogically be an adjective from 
xovig; and I can perceive no other pro+ 
bable etymology. ; 
Tt have little doubt, but that the true 
readmg is Aids XGoviov.—i, e. “ of Pluto; 
or Dis.”As Jupiter was termed ker Soya, 
Zeds Oupavios, and Nepttine ‘zébs Mov7i0¢, 30 
Pluto was sometimes called Ztb¢ XOH/0¢. 
Hesychius, x640; ede, 6 “Adus. "The tirle 
is used by Hesiod and Orpheus. So 
amongst the Latins, “ Jupiter Stygius ;” 
which title is found in several inseriptions 
in Gruter and Reinesius: Wirgil also, 
“ Stygio Jovi.”—The following passage, 
however, of Pausanias himself seems to 
me to decide the question.——Tx 03 
(4ytipara) to Atds, uot rabra bre EP 
imraifps, 70 pedv torinrnow obw eye, voy BE abray 
Nona, nai roy tpiroy naroiow Ydicrov, which 
passage 1s not a little remarkable for its 
construction,— Id, Heliac. xive | Avie 
earavurciay XOoviev, vid. Corinthiac, xxiv.—- 
The tact of these statues being éy iwa/Spar, 
agreeing with the circumstance related 
in the first, leaves, I think, but httle 
doubt of the truth of this slight corree- 
tion. After all this emendation is only 
worth mentioning, inasmuch as no com+ 
mentator, that I am aware of, has made 
it before. 
Now Iam writing, I will just express 
my surprise, that Mr. C. Wesley should 
trouble himself to recur to his Gradus ad 
Parnassum for the quantity of the ante- 
penultima of ,Amramides,. concerning 
which it is perfectly clear that no rule 
can be given, When a Hebrew word is 
Launized we may use it in most instances 
to our own quantity ; and if Mr. C. Wess 
ley is sticking in the middle of a copy of , 
“ Jong.and short,” at a loss about Moses, 
T will venture to assure him,. that he may 
pronounce his patronymic“ ad libitum ;” 
provided he sticks to one usage, and does 
not make the penultima long, Mr. Wes- 
ley should’ know that patronymics are 
not derived from the name of a mother, 
and that [lippotades comes from Immerzs, 
the father of Sergesta, who was the mo- 
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