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Particularly of the L E ffE R 2 1 T M A. 1 47 



" do I mention fuch circumftances as thefe ? He has banifhed 

 *' me entirely out of Thejfaly, to which he infifts upon giving 

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

 " to the very fea, which he calls toeirra inftead of S-aXa<r<ra. 

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

 ** much that he has not, I may fay, left me a fingle vcuro-ccXos, 

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

 can bear me witnefs what a patient character I am ; for I 

 never fo much as found fault with £, when he flole my pre- 

 cious trpctgocyfos *, or emerald, from me, and thruft me out of 

 the city of Smyrna ; nor with f , when he violated every ftt- 

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

 " abettor of his guilt. As to my next neighbour "?a, it was 

 " but an act of humanity in me to forgive him, when, in the 

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

 as if they had been called pvppivai, and not pvgarivui, and s 

 under the prefTure of a deep melancholy, (truck me a blow 

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

 " I am endowed. 



u But the violent difpofition of this Tuv will be dill more 

 M apparent, when we reflec~l, that he has alfo injured, not only 

 *' Athru, (dHjrot, and Zyra, but almoft every one of the other 

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

 a Atxru 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 ivreXi^snx, inftead of e^eAs^s/a. — Liften, I befeech you 

 to the wailing of 0$jra, who is tearing his hair in anguifh for 

 the lofs of his gourd, which has been changed from zokvxvv§ti 

 into xohvxvvrn ; and to ZSjra, complaining that he no longer 

 hears the mujic of the pipe nor the found of the trumpet, a-vg'tfyiv 



T 2 " and 



* Which is fometimes written {(x*gay^?, as E^'p** is written Zpi^va. See the annota- 

 tion of Hemsterhusius. 



f wS»*»», — which Thucyhides writes l^uxi)*, and fo in many other words, ufing £ 

 for <r, as is well known. 



