83 society of ylrcadia. Sept^K). 



T?ie law suit lasted three years, when Aquilio died, 

 and the s-chismatics finding they were very near lo- 

 sing their cause in the court, made a legal re- 

 nunciation of the suit, and pretensions; and laying 

 a^ide the name of Arcadia ttvova, they afsembled un- 

 der the name of Acadeinia ^lirina, in the gallery of 

 cardinal Lorenzo Corsini, who was afterwards pope 

 Clement xii. by whose influence they had given up 

 their pretensions. Thus Arcadia recovered its tran- 

 quillity which h^s ever after been undistitrbed. 



I must observe to you, that the unanimity of the 

 Arcadians has always been insurmountable in invio- 

 lably observing that part of the law which hinders 

 the Arcadians from having a patron ; for when Arete 

 Mellt'o (John v. king of Portugal) was acclamated, 

 he sent a present of four thousand crowns to the Ar- 

 ■cadia, and an offer to be their patron ; they received 

 the present, which was employed in buying the pre- 

 sent place where the Bosco Parrasio exists, but they 

 made the royal fhepherd understand it was against 

 -the laws of Arcadia to have a patron. 



It has not been pofaible to observe tlie tenth law 

 ss strictly as it was intended, on account of the great 

 number of the Arcadian iliepherds, for whom there 

 could not be kept a fixed number of lands, which, 

 on the contrary, have been increased, and the deno- 

 minations taken not only from the country of Arca- 

 dia, and the neighbouring provinces, but this ima- 

 ginary dominion has been extended to all those coun- 

 tries that have belonged to the Greeks, even at the 

 time of the Maced niaii empire under Philip, Alex- 

 ander, and their succefsors. i 

 To be concluded in anotle?- article. 



