A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical Volume 2; In Which a New and Accurate Translation of That of Mr. Bayle, with the Corrections and Observations Printed in the Late Edition at Paris (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1735 Excerpt: ... who tell us4 that she gained leveral conquests with great vigour D. without the particle non, which makes impenetrable nonsense. (7) Ciceron. temijia ilia, fays he 7), Maufeli Carlo: Regis uxor, Tufculan. 3. yaAE. nobile illud Halicarnajji fecit fepulcrum quamdiu This passage is ix;t vixit in luilu, eodemque etiam confecla eontabuit. Valerius Maxi-H"'c erat of'"'0 quotidie recent, qua: turn denique mus Varhr. The non appellabatur recens cum vtluftate exaruit. i. e. last period in -' Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus King of Caria, Roman character wj,0 built: the magnificent Sepulchre at Halicar"naffus, lived all her life in sorrow, and at last pe"rifhed with it. The same sentiment was always "new to her; and it was then only not esteemed "new, when worn out with age." It is almost beyond dispute, that Cicero did not know, that Artemisia survived her husband but two years; for if he had known this, he would not have made use of expressions, which signify a long duration of sorrow. But let us see what Strabo says: MiV- S' ixctcmutin Six niwfci Tou iS(o( (8). i. e. "She pin'd away out "of sorrow for the loss of her husband." C We are told, that Isocrates was one of the Ora, tors, nvho entered the lifts upon this occasion. I have f9) Plutarch, in quoted two good authorities (9) for this; and I can Vita Ificrat. A. a(j, j another of great weight, which is that of Theocapl "s. hb' ' mpus-He boasted publickly, that he had car(10) Set Euseb. ried the prize from Isocrates his Master (10). But I Prapar.Evangti. am not ignorant that Suidas, without maldng any lib. 10. cap. 3. mention of Isocrates the Athenian, speaks of another Isocrates the scholar and successor of trie latter, and who was born ..