II. 
70 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP. sell. The fact is, it is not money which such 
men want. They will often exchange their 
manuscripts for good printed editions of the 
Greek Classics, particularly of the Orators. 
Prince Alexander Bano Hantzerli had a magnifi- 
cent collection of Greek manuscripts, and he long 
corresponded with the author after his return 
Pcra, may give the Reader a notion of the common Greek used at 
that place. 
EIAHSir. 
'O Kv^ios KafiViiiir,i J^afcfiatU Twv Tifirtv va tloaife'irsffi^ Trio ivyniffrKTit* 
KaivoT>ira, o~i viXhv loa fil ivoc fiiyec auWoytv nffffa^axeira xcti vnoiiffo- 
Tiooiv a,yaXiJt,u,Tuit, to "prXittrrov fii^o; raJv Mova^^ciJ» tyi; EueM-rn;, xai 
'jtoWtiiv aXXwi '!ri^t^n(i,at ii-roxiifiivcov, iv eis ih^iffKirai xcei fit'a 'Af^eoiTV- 
"OXas ituroi ti; fi'iyJo; (fuffixh, xcci hiiSvfiiva ixaaTov xara to» fia^/iiy 
Tti; a,%lecs rou. 
Aura <ra uyaX/iurit ^ecfpt^fid^etrai xa$' ixafT'/iv uto ra ^tv^ve lais tJ; 
easy ^ivn t?s vuxtos, lis to ffrav^oiocfAi, 'ivhov tou iffftnTicu rris Ku^icts 
Tofia^Isas, ivava tU tI 'E^yafTri^i ho; Kovipirii^fi. Ta slyivn tivoxli- 
ftivcc hXii ■^Xn^imu)! xarx rhv i^Xovfwtd^ap^av aurSt "x'^oxi^to'iy, 'H Ss 
futn^ns Tifih wai y^oti sva il; xih a^i^waot. 
Translation. 
'NOTICE. 
' Mr. Campioni has the honour to iriform the Nobility and Gentry, that 
he is arrived here, with a large collection of forty and more Figures; the 
greater part, of the Kings of Europe, and many other illustrious per- 
sonages. Jtnong them is a Venus. All these are of the size of nature; 
and dressed, each according to the quality of the person. 
These Figures are exhibited every day, from the morning to eleven at 
night, in the Staurodromo, in the house of Mrs. Thoniasina, above a 
Confectioner's shop. The Nobility and Gentry will pay according to their 
liberal dispositions ; hut the customary price is a piastre a head.' 
" To confirm what I have said above, relating: to the knowledge 
which some of the noble Greeks possess of their antient language, I 
refer the Reader to the elaborate performance of Nicolas Mavrocordato, 
who was Prince of Walachia, written in antient Greek ; the title of 
which 
