OLYMPIC DIAL0GM* 



OLYMPIC DIALOGUE. 



BY MR. W I ELAND. 



JUPITER. NUMA. AFTERWARDS TO THEM 

 A STRANGER. 



Jupiter. 



How comes it, Numa, that for fomc days pail 

 we have not feen thee at the table of the gods ? 



Numa^] The news that Mercury brought us lately 

 from Rome, allowed me no reft till I had feen mkh 

 my own eyes how the matter Hood. 



Jupiter.] And how didft thou find it ? 



Numa.~] I fay it with a heavy heart, Jupiter; 

 though probably I tell thee nothing new : but thy 

 confequence among mortals feems to be irrecoverably 

 gone. 



Jupiter. .] Haft thou not heard what Apollo lately 

 faid at table ? 



Numa.~] He was lavilh of his confolations to thee, 

 Jupiter — and yet all this comfort in the long run 

 turned merely on a play upon words. It was exaclly 

 as if a chaldaean foothfayer, on telling the great Alex- 

 ander at Babylon in the midft of his conquefts, that 

 he was to die inglorioufly of a fever, Ihould endeavour 

 to confole him by the afTurance that two thoufand 

 years after his death a noble defcendant of the great 

 Wittekind fhould wear his likenefs in a ring. Such 

 a fentixnent, as long as a man is in profperity, may- 

 be 



