PURSUITS OF LITERATURE

A SATIRICAL POEM

IN FOUR DIALOGUES

WITH NOTES.

Υμεις, ω παντα εν πᾶσι φυσει και παιδεια χρηστοι, και μέτριοι,
και φιλανθρωποι, και της Βασιλείας αξιοι, (τετοις τοις λόγοις)

επινεύσατε.

Athenagoræ Atheniensis Legatio Imperatoribus Antonino

et Commodo. Ad fin. Op. Justin, Martyr. Ed. Paris 1036 pag. 39.

THE FOURTEENTH EDITION

WITH THE CITATIONS TRANSLATED

AND WITH A COMPLETE INDEX.

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L'Envoy.

Hæc ego Picria solus meditabar in umbrâ,
Dum Thamesis meus et (quondam mea) Granta favebant,
Nativa fretus citharâ, fidibusque severis,

Ingentes ausus Patriæ lenire labores.

In perusing the Notes to the Pursuits of Literature, the
Reader is requested to attend very particularly to their
respective dates.

THE

PREFACE. (a)

νυν, ω βέλτιστε Κηφισοφών, οι δ' όσοι έτοι εισιν οι τως περι ήμων λόγες

εμβάλλοντες ες τες οχλες αλλ' ώσπερ αει άπρακτοι αυτών αι κακαι γλώσσαι

εγένοντο, και γέλωτα εξ αυτών και μίσος, εδεν πλέον, ωφλισκάνον, και

ισθι, ότι εκ απρακτοι μόνον, αλλ' επι κακω σφισιν εσονται.
Συ μεντοι εν

ποιείς περὶ τάτων ἡμιν γράφων, επειδήπερ εκεί ήμιν διαφέρει, αλλ' ώσπερ ει

ποιεις γράφων, έτως αδικειν φησαιμ' αν ήμας, αντιλέγει τα ύπερ αύτων ΤΟΙΣ

ΟΥΚ ΑΞΙΟΙΣ. (3)

I HAVE again revised the Poem on the Pursuits of Litera-

ture 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 cor-

rection, nor the various parts of it presented to the pub-

lic 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 done

from

(a) This Preface was first published in December 1800; some
passages have been added since. (May 1803.)

(2) Euripidis Epist. ex Macedonia ad Cephisophontem,

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