. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. eir lives and bodies left. My suit is with Eutychides; and if I get decree, Leonidas and Xerxes both are welcome to go free. Plead my true case: lest I cry out (I cant my feelings smother), The little pig one story tells, and Menecles another. This satire upon a certain class of lawyers agrees completelywith an epigram of Martials ; and as Lucilius and he livednearly about the same time, it would be interes
. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. eir lives and bodies left. My suit is with Eutychides; and if I get decree, Leonidas and Xerxes both are welcome to go free. Plead my true case: lest I cry out (I cant my feelings smother), The little pig one story tells, and Menecles another. This satire upon a certain class of lawyers agrees completelywith an epigram of Martials ; and as Lucilius and he livednearly about the same time, it would be interesting to know ifthe one was borrowed from the other, and which. The pre-ponderance of evidence rather is that Lucilius, as Lessingthinks, was a century, or at least half a century, later thanMartial, and is probably, therefore, the imitator in this matter,though his imitation is not slavish. Martials epigram hasbeen translated into French by La Monnoye. This chapter may be concluded with a mild satire upon thecondition of the times, with reference to the two ancientworthies, Heraclitus and Democritus, the weeping and thelaughing philosopher. The translation is mainly from Prior : —. — c .= ^ ri 2 oS 2 .3 cc 2 tr. : —3 THE LB] Efl OF , with thy tears return;Life more than ever gives us cause to dear droll, revisit earth :Life more than ever gives us cause for you both I stand in thoughtful pother,How I should weep with one, how laugh with tother. THE ISLES OF GREECE- By LORD BY] [Lord George Noel Gordon Btron: A famous English poet; born in London,January 88, 1788. At the age of ton he succeeded to the estate and title of hisgranduncle William, fifth Lord Byron. He was educated at Harrow amibridge, and in lbt>7 published his tirst volume of poems, Hours of IdhAfter a tour through eastern Europe he brought out two cantos of ChildeHarold, which met with instantaneous success, and soon after he married theheiress Miss Millb
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