THE PURSUITS

OF LITERATURE.

A SATIRICAL POEM

IN FOUR DIALOGUES.

WITH NOTES.

[PRICE 12s. & 6d. IN BOARDS.]

OF LITERATURE.

A SATIRICAL POEM

IN FOUR DIALOGUES.

WITH NOTES.

Ύμεις, ω παντα εν πᾶσι φύσει και παιδεια χρηστοι, και μετριοι,
και φιλανθρωποι, και της Βασιλειας αξίας, τέτοις τοις λόγοις

επινεύσατε.

Athenagoræ Atheniensis Legatio Imperatoribus
Antonino et Commodo. -Ad fin. Op. Justin.
Martyr. Ed. Paris 1636. pag. 39.

THE ELEVENTH EDITION,

WITH

THE CITATIONS TRANSLATED.

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December, 1800.

THE PREFACE.

Νύν, ο βέλτιστε Κηφισοφών, οι δ' διοι ότοι εισιν δι τις περι
ήμων λόγος εμβάλλοντες ες τες οχλες αλλ' ώσπερ αει άπρακτοι
αυτων &ι κακαι γλώσσαι εγενοντο, και γέλωτα εξ αυτών και
μίσος, «δεν πλεον, ωφλισκάνον, και νυν ισθι, ότι εκ απρακτο
μόνον, αλλ' επι κακω σφισιν εσονται. Συ μεντοι εν ποιείς περι
τετων ἡμῖν γραφων, επειδήπερ οιει ἡμιν διαφέρειν αλλ' ώσπερ
εν ποιεις γράφων, έτως αδικειν φησαιμ' αν ἡμας, αντιλέγοντα
ύπερ αυτων ΤΟΙΣ ΟΥΚ ΑΞΙΟΙΣ. (α)

I HAVE again revised the Poem on the Pursuits of

Literature with considerable care, as I am of

opinion that no man of candour and reflection

could wish to see any mistakes in a work so

extensive continued without correction, nor the

various parts of it presented to the public without

such improvements, alterations, and additions to

the poetry and the notes, as circumstances have

arisen to prompt or to require. This is all which

I have

a

(α) Euripidis Εpist. ex Macedonia ad amicum suum

Cephisophontem. Eurip. Op. Edit, Barnes. Part. 2. pag. 529.