that there is no gradation; that the firft part of the fentence is as ftrong as the fecond; and that Lactantius might place either first. He might fay, Cur nobis auferimus Libertatem, et quafi addili alienis fervimus Erroribus? Or, Cur quafi addili alienis fervimus Erroribus, et nobis auferimus Libertatem? It may be faid, "What can be meaner, than to be a flave to ftupid errors? to the errors of others?" And I fay, "What can be meaner, than to be a flave by choice?"-to refufe liberty?-let them be equally mean; 'tis all that I want, to confirm my conjecture. Nulla fervitus turpior eft quàm voluntaria, as Seneca fays. part of However, let us fuppofe that the latter the fentence is fomewhat ftronger than the firft; ftill it must be granted, that the gradation is next to nothing, and almost imperceptible: which is enough for the prefent purpose. II. I know not whether I fhould add, that the paffages quoted above differ from that in Lactantius, in that they are not interrogations; which, perhaps, is fomething, though indeed not much. III. This, at all events, is obfervable, that in thofe places it is not fimply fed, but fed etiam; whereas in Lactantius there is no etiam. To the preceding examples may be added this, which is fomewhat like them : Ad Attic. IX. 13. Nec interim poteft quidquam ftatui, SED ne cogitari quidem. CAP. LXIV. "Hoc Præcepto non folum corrumpere alienum Matrimonium prohibemur,-verum etiam proftitutis corporibus abftinere." That is, "abftinere jubemur." Examples of fuch ellipfes are frequent. Exactly like this is St. Paul's expreffion, i Tim. iv. 3. Κωλύονίων γαμεῖν, ἀπέχεθαι βρωμάτων, &c. CAP. LXVIII. "Alii vero ex adverfo et Deum effe unum, et ab eo Mundum factum, et Hominum Cauffa factum, et Animas effe immortales exiftimaverunt. Stoicos intelligit, fays Dr. Davies. The Stoics, indeed, acknowledged Deum unum, fo far as to acknowledge one fupreme God: but they did not hold the foul's immortality; and Lactantius is too favourable to them in this point. CAP. CAP. LXXI. He fays that Democritus, Epicurus, and Diczarchus were foli omnium Mortalium who denied the foul's immortality. How many others might he have added to his lift! CAP. LXXIII. "Luna fanguine inficietur, nec amiffæ lucis damná reparabit." From Horace, CARM. IV. VII. Damna tamen celeres reparant cæleftia Luna. LUCA N. PHARSALIA, I. 119. Morte tua difcuffa Fides. WE have excusso ferro just before: Perhaps difciffa Fides. Cicero, de Amic. fays "Amicitie-diffuendæ magis quam difcindendæ funt."* * That Lucan, however, might mean difcuffa, notwithstanding the iteration alluded to, See Ver. 181, 182. Hine ufura vorax, avidumque in tempora fænus, Er concuffa fides; et multis utile bellum. Horace, Horace, EP. I. 111. 32. an malè farta Gratia necquicquam coit, et refcinditur. Seneca, de Irâ, II. 29. Eft aliquis malignus, et qui Amicitias cohærentes diducere velit. III. 733. Lucan defcribes a father looking upon his fon, who was killed in the battle. Non lacrima cecidêre genis; non pectora tundit; Nox fubit, atque oculis vaftæ obduxêre tenebræ, Here the Poet imitates Seneca the Philofopher, or the Rhetorician. Novi vero, et præcipue Declamatores, audacius, nec mehercule fine motu quodam imaginantur. Ut Seneca in Controverfia, cujus fumma eft, Quod Pater filium et novercam, inducente altero Filio, in adulterio deprehenfos occidit: "Duc, fequor, accipe hanc fenilem manum, et quocumque vis imprimie." Et paullo post: ASPICE, inquit, quod diu non credidifti. EGO vero non video: nox oboritur, et craffa caligo." Habet hæc Figura manifeftius aliquid: Non enim narrari Res, fed agi videtur. Quinctilian. IX. 2. p. 519: Ed. Obrecht. "En "En la Guerre que le Roy Ferdinand mena contre la vefve du Roy Jean de Hongrie, autour de Bude, un Gendarme fut particulierement remarqué de chacun, pour avoir exceffivement bien fait de fa perfonne en certain Meflée; et incognu, hautement loüé et plaint, y etant demeuré; mais de nul tant que de Raifciac, Seigneur Allemand, efpris d'une fi rare vertu. Le corps etant raporté, cettuycy, d'une commune curiofité, s'approcha pour voir qui c'eftoit et les Armes oftées au Trefpaffé, il reconnut-fon Fils! Cela augmenta la Compaffion aux Affiftans. Lui feul, fans rien dire, fans filler les yeux, fe tint debout, contemplant fixement le Corps de fon Fils, jufques à ce que la vehemence de la Trifteffe, ayant accablé fes Efprits vitaux, le porta roide mort par Terre." Montaigne. L. I. ch. 2. VI. 727. Verberat immotum vivo ferpente Cadaver. One manuscript hath innatum: Perhaps it should be ignavum. LUCRETIUS, |