Particularly of .the LETTER Sir MA. 143 



" Ye Vowels, before whofe tribunal I ftand, as long as 

 •• the injuries I received from this Tad here were but of a tri- 

 " vial nature, whilft he abufed my property, and encroached 

 " upon me where he had no juft right or title, I bore the lofs 

 " without repining ; and out of the deference which you know 

 " I obferve both to you and the other fyllables, I lent a deaf 

 f* ear to certain infinuations which were circulated to his dif- 

 u credit. But fince he proceeds to fuch a pitch of avarice and 

 " folly, as to be conftantly adding more heinous acls of vio- 

 " lence to thofe which, with a reluclant filence, I ufed to fuffer, 

 ** I am forced to arraign him before you, who are well ac- 

 " quainted with the difpofition of us both. And I am under 

 " no fmall apprehenfion, on account of this expulfion to which 

 " I am expofed ', for while he is continually adding fomething 

 " more violent to what he has already perpetrated, he will foon 

 " thruft me completely out of my own province, fo that by be- 

 " having thus tamely, I fhall run the rifk of being no longer 

 " accounted a letter f and all of us fhall have fome reafon to be 

 u : alarmed*. 



It is therefore expedient, that not only you who at pre- 



fent fit in judgment, but likewife the other Letters, mould 

 ** be upon your guard againft this daring attempt. For if any 

 " one who has amind fhall be permitted to quit the poft af- 



" figned 



On the 7th of Tlvxntyui, were celebrated at Athens the feftivals called Xlvxn^ix and 

 'OvX'ty^'*' See Corsini Fajli dttici, Vol. I. p. 63. and Vol. II. p. 383. Alio, Potter's 

 Archivol. Vol. I. p. 418. & 423. 



* In the Greek,, the laft member of this fentence is, h *<ru SI k£o§cci ts pa'/Stc to which 

 Bourdelotius propofes to add, ra Xoiwa. y^d^urx' which he found on the margin of one 

 MS. and the rejl of the tetters be in the fame alarming fituation. Inftead of rS <pi/2e , the 

 celebrated Hemsterhuis teems difpofed to read ra [i. e. ti»] -\>o(pa, and to render the 

 fentence as follows : Ita ut parum abjit, quia, Ji quietus injurwtn ultra feram, e numero 

 literarum expungar, neque alio Jim loco, quam fonus aliquis, vcl, Jibilus. I have no doubt 

 that the phrafe, as it is in the printed books, came from the pen of Lucian, h 'Uu SI x<S$<x» 

 rS <pi/Zn, 1. e. Si ri ts .p'!|3s K«aS«< yftw h *ou, and all of us have fome reafon to be alarmed. 

 This meaning is confirmed by what immediately follows. 



K 

 it 



