7. I admire your virtue.

8. Leading himn out of the way, under some palm-trees, he ordered them to spread some of the Median carpets under him.

9. The king of the Romans, being now old, goes to the house of a teacher ; but my king Alexander died when thirty-two years of age.

10. Τ I think indeed that you are just, but not in any degree wise; and you seem to me yourself to know this ; for you require money from no person on account of his living with you.

11. In the tent there was one of the captains, called Aglaitidas ; a person who, as to his manner, was one of the harsher men.

12. When I shall have finished (the term or time) of this mortal life.

13. And learn also from me, my son, said he, these most important things ; you should never attempt any thing, neither in yourself, nor with the army, against thesacrificesandauguries. 14. Ο cause of much laughter ! But now who could look upon them so contemning other men? or who would believe, that, after a little time, the one shall be a captive, and the other shall have his head in a bag of blood?

Θαυμαζω συ.

Απαγωΰ αυτος ὁ ὁδος εξω, ὑπο φοινιξε τις, ὁ Μηδικος πιλος ὑποβαλλω κελευω αυτος.Φ

̔Ο ̔Ρωμαιος βασιλευς, γηρασκω ηδη, ες διδασκαλος φοιταω· ὁ δε εμος βασιλευς Αλεξανδρος δυο και τριακοντα ετος αποθνησκω.6

Εγω τοι συ μεν δίκαιος νομιζω, σοφος δε ουδε όπωστιουν· δοκέω δε εγω και αυ τος οὗτος γιγνωσκω. ουδειςε γαρ ουν ὁ συνουσια αργυριον πράσσω m

Εν ὁ σκηνη τυγχανω τις ειμι ὁ ταξιαρχος, Αγλαϊτιδας ονομα"· ανηρ, ό τρο πος, ὁ στρυφνος άνθρωπος. Επειδαν ὁ ανθρωπινος βιος τελευταω.5

Μανθανωσ δε εγω, παις, και όδε, φημι, ὁ με γας' παρα γαρ ίερον και οιωνος μητε εν σεαυτου μηδεποτε, μηδε εν ὁ στρατια, κινδυνεύω.5ε

Ω πολυς γελως. Αλλα νυν τις αν αυτος προσβλεπως ούτως ὑπερφρονεω ὁ αλλος; η τις αν πιστευω, ὡς μετα ολιγος, οὗτος μεν αιχμαλωτος ειμι, οὗτος δε ὁ κεφαλη εχω εν ασχος αἷμα.

4. We do not search and examine common men, equally with those who are of splendid

race.

5. They sailed immediately with twenty-five ships.

6. It appears to me to be a shameful thing for a man to suffer the same things with the most stupid of animals.

7. 4[ In one respect Sophocles would be the same kind of an imitator with Homer, for they both represent good men; in another, with Aristophanes, for they both represent men acting and doing. 8. About Egypt, two hundred triremes, with their crews and passengers, were destroyed; about Cyprus, an hundred and fifty; in Pontus, they lost ten thousand armed men of themselves and their auxiliaries.

9. If Thessaly had one man only, and Arcadia one man thinking the same things with me, not one of the Grecians would have suffered the present misfortunes.

10. Of writers, some made nothing more than a collection and transcript of the things composed by the ancients, as Euclid, and Democritus, and Proclinus: others, having selected small parts of the history of the ancients, to comment on, attempted to write books on the same subjects with

προς.

Πλέω ευθυς, πεντε και

εικόσι ναυς.

Οf μεν, ὁ αυτος αν ειμιο μιμητης Ομηρος Σοφοκλης, μιμεομαι γαρ αμφω σπου δαιος· ὁ δε, Αριστοφανης, πρασσω γας μιμεομαι και δραω αμφω.

Περι μεν Αιγυπτος διακοσιοι τριηρης, αυτος πληρωμα, διαφθειρωσ· περι δε Κυπρος", πεντήκοντα, και ἑκατὸν ἐν ὁ Ποντος, μύριοι ὁπλίτης αυτος και ὁ συμμαχος απολλυμι.

Ει εἷς ανης μονος Θετταλια, και εἷς ανης Αρκαδια ὁ αυτος φρονεω εχω εγω, ουδεις ὁ ̔Ελλην ὁ παρειμι κακος χραομαιΡ8ί αν.

ὁ

Ο γραφωāh, ὁ μεν εδεις πολυς η συναγωγή και με ταγραφη ὁ ὁ πρεσβυςc συντιθημιδη ποιεω, καθαπερ Ευκλειδης, και Δημοκριτος, και Προκλινος· ὁ δε, μικρός κομιδη πραγμα ὁ ὁ πα λαιος ἱστορία απομνημο νευω, εις ό αυτός τόπος

gressuros.)

6. Whatever you are about to say, review it first in your judgment; for with many people the tongue runs before the understanding. (dicturus sis.)

7. When the nightingale toas about to be slain. (occidendaesset.) 8. [ Those who are about to be auxiliaries, ought to be friends, not enemies, neither envious in the prosperity of their command

er, nor treacherous in his adversity. (futuros.)

9. For who, being about to make any thing, is ignorant what he is about to make? for he does

not make it by a power void of reason. (cum facturus sit,) (facturus est.)

10. In the (play) Cresphontes, Merope is about to kill her son, and does not kill him, but discovers who he is; and in the Helle, the son being about to give up his mother, finds who she is. (occisura est,) (dediturus.)

11. And he was about to do

still more good things to his subjects; for he had driven the informers from the city, and had ordered them to be punished in every place. (benefacturus erat.)

λαμβανω,6