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and formed a part of the Chorus and of their tragedies, 
it is not necessary to prove to you, who must be so well 
aware of it- But allow me to recommend to your perusal 
the entretiens which Diderot has established on his \fils 
naturel.' In them all, you will find some curious remarks : 
and in the second, especially, you will meet with the 
story of the philosopher Timocrates. This, however, is 
not the only instance of the kind. Herodotus, and Paur- 
Santa's, in relating the extraordinary method adopted by 
CListhenes to marrj' his daughter, relate a curious dance of 
HippQclites the Athenian ; who, in order to shew his super 
riority over his rivals, after having danced the emmbleia, 
made use of his legs just as another would have done with 
his arms ; all the while standing on his head and his hands. 
You are too well acquainted with their progress in rope- 
dancing, and with all the other dancing which must have 
been mixed with pantomime ; such as, the Dance of Inno- 
cence, among the Spartans ; the Dance of Hymen, which 
Homer describes to have been engraved on the Shield of 
Achilles; that of the Lapithcs ; and many others. 
" Leaving, therefore, the^ Grecians, I shall say but one 
word of the antient Romans, before I make any mention of 
the modern Italians. 
" The dance of the Salii, invented by Numa, introduced 
into Rome the taste for dancing, which very soon became 
a rage. Indeed, the number of their dances is equal to that 
of their religious ceremonies : many were transmitted even 
to the primitive Christians; and some, such as those o( May- 
pay, are still retained in England at this moment. They, the ^ 
Romans, continued to follow and imitate the Grecians, till the 
reign of Augustus, at which time Pylades and Bathxjlus 
conceived the idea of representing a whole action by dance 
