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and was not that a fufficient reafon for hungry authors to 

 rail? 



Plutarch tells lis, that the comic poet Pherecrates intro- 

 duced Mufic on the llage, under the figure of a woman, 

 whofe body was terribly torn and mangled. She is allied 

 by Jullice, under the figure of another woman, the caufe 

 of her ill-treatment ? when (he relates her (lory in the follow- 

 ing words : " The firlt fource of all my misfortunes was 

 Melauippidcs, who began to enervate and debilitate me by 

 his t'wel've Jlrmgs. However, this would not have reduced 

 me to the deplorable condition in which I now appear, if Ci- 

 ne(ias, that curfed Athenian, had not contributed to ruin 

 and disfigure me in his dithyrambic ftrophes, by his falfe 

 and untuneable inflexions of voice. In (hort, his cruelty to 

 me was beyond all defcription ; and next to him, Phrynis 

 took it into his head to abufe me by fuch divifions and fiou- 

 ridies, as no one ever thought of before, making me (ub- 

 fervient to all his whims, tvvHting and twirling me athoufand 

 ways, in order to produce irom fve JlrlngSi the tnvelve dif- 

 ferent Diodes. But (till, the freaks of fuch a man would 

 not have been fufficient to complete my ruin, for he was able 

 to make me fome amends. Nothing now was wanting but 

 the cruelty of one Timotheus to fend me to the grave, after 

 maiming and mangling me in the mod inhuman manner." 

 " Who is this Timotheus ?" fays Juilice. 



Music. 



" O 'tis that vile Milefian blade. 

 Who treats me like an arrant jade : 

 Robs me of all my former fame ; 

 And loads me with contempt and (hame : 

 Contriving (till, where'er he goes, 

 New ways to multiply my woes : 

 Nay more, the wretch I never meet. 

 Be It in palace, houfe, or ftreet, 

 But Itraight he tries to clip my wings. 

 And ties me with a do-z.enjlrings.'" 



SENAURA, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 the circar of Bickaneer ; j miles E. of Jefl'elmere. 



SENCE, a river of England, which rifes in Leicefter- 

 (hire, and runs into the Anker, near Atherltone, in War- 

 wick(hire. 



SEND, is ufcd by feamen, when a (hip, either at an 

 an-chor, or under fail, falls with her head, or ftern, deep 

 into the trough of the fea, i. e. into a hollow made between 

 two waves, or billow:;. They fay ihe feiu/s much that way, 

 whether it be a-head or a-llern. 



SENDAL, in our V/cl IVrilcri, a kind of thin line filk, 

 mentioned in the ftat. 2 Rich. II. cap. I. 



SENDEBAS, in Geography, a town of Egypt, on the 

 eaft branch of the Nile ; 13 miles S. of Semmcnud. 



SENDELBACH, Langen, a town of Germany, in 

 the bifliopric of Bamberg j 5 miles S.S.E. of Forcheim. 



SENDEN, a town of Germany, in the bifliopric of 

 Mnnll-r ; 7 miles S.S.W. of Munller. 



SENDENHORST, a town of Germany, in the bi- 

 (hopric of Mnnfter ; 10 miles S.S.E. of Paderborn. 



SENDESE, a town of Egypt, on the Kalits il Menhi ; 

 3 miles N. of Behnefe. 



SENUGEAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 

 13 miles S.E. of Bahkefri. 



SENDGISCHOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 of S.uid<,;nirz ; 36 miles S.S.W. of Sandomirz. 



SENDI, or SiNDi, in yiruiriit Geography, a people of 

 Scythia, in the country called Sendica, in the vicinity of 

 *he couutry of the Tauro-Scythians. Pliny. 



SENDIA, in Geography, a town of New Mexico, on 

 the Bravo ; 50 miles S. of Santa Fe. 



SENDUARY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 45 

 miles S.S.W. of Patna. 



SENEBIERA, in Botany, a genus of Decandolle's, 

 dedicated to Mr. John Seiiebier, a Genevan naturalift, who 

 publidied a work upon Vegetable Phvfiology, in 1 791. 

 Decand. Mem. de la Soc. d'Hifloire Naturelle, 142. De 

 Theis, 427. 



SENECA, Lucius Asvjevs, in Biography, a cele- 

 brated plnlofophcr, was born at Corduba, near the com- 

 mencement of the Chriltian era. His father was a man of 

 equeltrian rank, and an eminent orator, of whom (ome de- 

 clamations and controverfies are extant. His n:other was 

 Helvia, a Spani(h lady of dillinftiim. Being educated at 

 Rome, he was early initiated in the ftiidy of eloquence by 

 his father, and other mailers ; but his own propenfity led 

 him to devote his talents to the ftudy of philofophy. He 

 firft joined the Pythagoreans, whom he foon left for the 

 Stoics : he, however, confined himfelf to no feft, but ex- 

 tended his inquiries to all the fyllems of Grecian philofophy. 

 In conformity to the wifhes of his father, he pleaded fome 

 time in the courts of juftice, and acquired by the practice a 

 confiderable reputation ; but it is thought he relinquilhed 

 the bar, through fear of the jealoufy of Caligula, who was 

 ambitious of oratorical fame. Entering into pubhc life, he 

 obtained the office of quellor, and had rifen to fome con- 

 fequence in the court of Claudius, when, at the inlligation 

 of Mellalina, he was accufed of an adulterous commerce 

 with Julia, the daughter of Germanicus, and was banifhed 

 to the idand of Corfica. In that idand he remained in exile 

 eight years, confoling himfelf with the maxims of phi- 

 lolf)phy, though never refigned to the leverity of his lot, as 

 may be inferred from his complaints, and his abjedt applica- 

 tion to the emperor for pardon. 



Upon the marriage of Claudius to his fecond wife Agrip- 

 plna, Seneca was, through ! er influence, recalled, and, 

 after being raifed to the pra;tor(hip, was appointed preceptor 

 to her fon, the afterwards mod; infamous Nero ; while Bur- 

 rhus was made his governor and military iultruttor. They 

 are faid to have ailed with the mo(l perfcdl unanimity in 

 reftraining him from thofe vices, to which his fituation and 

 inclination prompted him ; and obtained an afcendancy over 

 him, to which is attributed the flattering promife of the firlt 

 years of his reign. 



When Nero began to difplay his real charafter, his 

 quarrels with his mother, who was as violent and wicked as 

 her ion, laid his governors under great difficulties. Once 

 they were the means of reconciling them, but at length the 

 breach was irreparable, and Nero determined to free himfelf 

 from one wlion; he regarded as a dangerous competitor, by 

 the horrid crime of matricide. Seneca and Burrhus were 

 apprilcd of his intention, and did not oppofe it, as they 

 ought to have done ; and after the deed was perpetrated, 

 Seneca wrote to the fenate, in the name of the emperi r, to 

 jullify it. Burrhus died very foon, and the influence of 

 Seneca over his pupil was entirely loft ; neverthelefs the 

 tyrant heaped upon his preceptor unbounded wealth, which 

 not only cxpofed the charadler of the philofopher to leveie 

 cenfure, but was in the end the principal caufe of his de- 

 llrutliou. Finding that he was an objeft of envy to the 

 favourites of the prince, he rcquelltd permillion to retire 

 from court, and refund all that he had received from tlie 

 imperial liberality. Nero allured him of his continued re- 

 gard, and would not hear of the proffered rellitution of re- 

 wards, which he had fo well merited. Seneca, however, 

 knew him too well to place any confidence in his declara- 

 tions. 



