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fome of thefe epigrams in his eye more than once, 
when he wrote his fecond fatyr of the firfl book ; 
particularly where he fays, 
Hanc Philodemus ait fibi f qua neque magno , 
Stet precio, nec cunttetur , cum eft jafj'a venire. 
Is not this almoft a tranflation of the 
xxi Trxptygicx 
I icivlct, xxi xilycai ttqXXxxi (peiEof/.e nj. 
I will give the whole epigram, as a fpecimen of 
the ftyle and manner of Philodemus ; but muft beg, 
that in reading the third verfe you would recoiled: 
what Homer lays of the girdle or ceftus of Venus, 
that it contained all kind of delights and blandish- 
ments, love, perfuafion and delire. 
<&lAoS VfJLB e7Tiypa.fAfJ.Ct. 
MiJcvcrj xxi fJLiXctvsa-ct QiXcLtviov, ctAAa aeXivojv 
OuXore^i, xxl xfxrs %pu tx regeivorepti, 
Kxi xecrTU (pu'vevcrx fxxyojTepx-, xxi 'wxgey/xax 
TIclvtx, xxi xnwxi 'ZtJoXAxxi (peiEopLevn. 
Tolxvtwv GTepyoifj.1 \ iiAxivior, x%pi$ xv evpco 
AxXmy oc xpvaen K UTrpi, 'reAeio'repyv *. 
Extract 
* Since the deuh of the learned Dr. Watfon, which happened 
March 2, 1756, foon after his tranflation of thefe two letters of 
Camillo Paderni, and his oblcrvatioris upon the former, were 
read at the Royal Society, another Epigram of Philodemus has been 
taken notice of, publifhed at Leipfic ini 754, by the celebrated Mr. 
Reifke, which appears likewife to have been alluded to by Horace 
in the paffage in part cited above from his fecond fatire of the firfl: 
book, ver. 120. 
Mam pojl paullo, Jed pluris ft exierit vir , 
Gallis : hanc Philodemus ait, Jibi , &c. 
Upon which Dr. Bentley has the following note. 
Gallos hie fpadones et Cybeles facer dotes accipio: qui tam lentns am- 
bages facile et palienter Jerte queant. Si Philodemi epigramma ex 
argulo aliquo eruerctur , turn ccrtius feire pcjftmus utrum 1 ' veilet 
an l ct\a.Tus. The epigram is as follow s. 
