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which his majefty hath been pleated to honour me r 
A tingle volume of the Papyrus is unfolded, which 
is that, which treats of mufick. At length the name 
of the author, who was called Philodemus, is found 
written twice, at the end of the piece. The name is 
written once in a fmall, and a fecond time in a large 
hand, and in a good Greek character. They are 
now beginning to open, or rather to unroll another 
manufcript j but hitherto without much fuccefs : 
From fome fragments one may coiled:, that it treats 
of Rhetoric. 
This is what I have to fay at prefent ; and for 
the future, I will not fail to write to you, whenever 
any thing of value {hall be found. I am forty to 
fend you a letter full of blots and ill expreffed ; but, 
my friend, I have taken up my pen and ftolen a 
little time to write haftily to you ; for I have fo 
much bufinefs, that fometimes I have not even time 
to dine; fo I hope you will excufe me. 
Dr. Watfon begs leave to make the following 
Obfervations . 
I think it probable, that Philodemus, the author 
of this treatife on mulic, was the Epicurean philo- 
fopher of that name, who was, as Strabo informs 11s, 
a native of Gadara in Syria. He wrote many pieces 
in profe and verfe, and his tenth book yrepi rvv qnXo- 
aotpMv avylcc^en's is quoted by Diogenes Laertius. In- 
deed his fed, time and abode, will allow of the fup- 
pofition of his writings on mulic being at Hercula- 
neum at the time of its deftrudion. He redded at 
Rome, and was the acquaintance of Tally, and tire 
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