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1804.] Enquiry concerning Epaphreditus.—Of Works of Art. 
Whether that we {tudy their origin, hif- 
tory, or commerce, fince the Chriftian era, 
or examine their progrefs in the arts, ma- 
pufa‘tures, cr works of tafte, we fhall be 
equally impreffed with that labo ‘1Ous. 
famenefs, that tedious mediocrity, w 1 
never approaches any thing of ex cellen 
Their works are pretty, but not beautiful 
grand, but not dublime. 
too prefent the fame identity ; and the fame: 
caufes which excited an in/urre&tign in the 
13th century againft the Archbifhop, ex-. 
cited that againit the Convention in 1793. 
Their inventions and difcoveries are al- 
moft unksown, and their learning and 
{cience are principally confined to gram- 
matical rules, botanical nomenclotures, 
and laborious compiling of dictionaries of 
languages. ‘They have emours without 
love, picty without religion, and religion 
without morality, Of their moral cha- 
raster, Truth drew’ the outline, which 
Modefty covered with her Mantle, and 
Humanity fmiled at her prudence.—f[ Simi. 
far Sketches of other parts of France, and 
ala of places in Italy and Spain, will ap- 
pear in fubjequent Magazines. | 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
W HAVE had fome difficulty to explain 
jk to my own fatistaéticn a circum- 
fiance that occurs in the Writings of St. 
Paul ; and if any of your numerous read- 
ers, more conveifant in hillory, and of 
more extenlive reading than I am, will 
take the trouble to put the matrer in a 
clear point of view, it will confer an obli- 
gation on a fincere believer in the truths 
and doétrines of the Gofpel, 
INDAGATOR. 
IN the Life of Eviétetus, prefixed to 
Simplicius’s: Comment on his Morals, 
Epaphroditus is mentionec, on the autho- 
rity of A, Gellius and Suidas, to be a 
captain of Neio’s guards, and the matter 
of Epictetus, who was his flave. It is 
ftated, that whilft he was in this fituation, 
Eparhroditus ose. day tovk a {relic to 
wrench his leg, and Enictetus, cbferving 
him delighted with fo barbarous a plea- 
fure, and that he continued it with greater 
violence, faid, with a {imile, and free fiom 
any appearance of patiior—*‘‘If you go 
on, you will certainly break my leg.’ 
In fhort, he did fo; and then all the re- 
prifing that the old French courtiers, who 
took their ideas of commercial and manufac- 
turing towns from Lyons, fhould have fo con- 
temptible an idea of commercial and manu- 
§acturing countries, 
Their motives” 
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turn he made was this—** Did I not tell 
you, fir, that you: would break my leg.’° 
In Suetonius’s Life of Nero,. Epaphrodi- 
tus is called the fecretary of Nero; and 
when that montter was near his miferable 
end, it is related that he clapped a dag. 
ger to his throat, but not having heart 
_ enough to thruf it in, he was forced to be 
beholden to Epaphrodi tins, his fecretary, 
for his aMiftance ; for which aét, Domi- 
tian afterwards ordered Epaphroditus to 
be executed as a malefacter. 
St. Paul, in his Eyitile to the Philip- 
pians, {peaks of his amanueafis Epaphro- 
ditus, as his ** brother and companion in 
labour; and feems to place him, in the 
concluding falutation, among the faints 
of Crefar’s houfhold. Now as St. Paul 
is fuppofed to have fuffered martyrdom 
at the clofe of Nero’s ieign, a fatistactory 
explanation of this epparent incongruity 
in the charaéter of Epaphroditus would 
doubtlefs be ufeful. 
Seren aimed 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
(From the Magazin Encyclopedique.) 
R. F.C. L. Sickler, of Gotha, has 
lately publithed the firft volume of 
a work, entitled, ‘* Geschichte der Weg- 
nabme und Abfibrung,” &c.3. or, an, Hif- 
torical Notice of the Removal of different 
remarkable Works of Art from the Coun- 
tries of the Conquered to thofe of the 
Conquerors: a work intended to be a. 
fort of hifory of the arts and of civiliza- 
tion. Whe fir volume contains the hif- 
tory of the works of art, conquered and 
carried away by the Greeks, the Perfians, 
and the Romans; and is accompanied 
with analytical tables, adapted to the 
work—(293 pages in 8vo.) 
The valuable monuiments of the arts 
with which our mufeums have been en- 
riched, as prizes of the vituries obtained 
by our armies, have been the means of 
exciting a number of writers, in Ger- 
many, to compare thele tranfoortations 
of the works of art with what has been 
{ometimes practifed, in like cafes, in an. 
big a M. Bottiger was the first who 
treated of this fubject. In 1798, M. 
Voelkel publithed a Difcourfe on the De- 
portat ion of Works of Art in the Coun- 
tries conquered by the Rumans. He had 
pronounced this difcourfe in a fitting of 
the Society of Ansiquaries at Caffel; 
and he gives in it a great number o: very 
curious cbf fervations, But the work here 
announced, is that which has handied the 
fubje&t the belt; and almolt, as it were, 
exhauhed it. M. Sickier, ihe author of 
a2 xt 
