Accipe principium rursus, formamque coactam
Desere: mutatâ melior procede figurâ.

VOL. III.

CLAUDIAN.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR REST FENNER, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

Now for the writing of this werke,
I, who am a lonesome clerke,
Purposed for to write a book

After the world, that whilome took
Its course in oldè days long passed:
But for men sayn, it is now lassed
In worser plight than it was tho,
I thought me for to touch also

The world which neweth every day-
So as I can, so as I may,

Albeit I sickness have and pain,

And long have had, yet would I fain

Do my mind's hest and besiness,
That in some part, so as I guess,

The gentle mind may be advised.

GOWER, Pro. to the Confess. Amantis.

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Entroduction.

Παρὰ Σέξτου τὴν ἔννοιαν τῶν κατὰ φύσιν ζῆν. καὶ τὸ σέμνον ἀπλάτως, ὥςε κολακείας μὲν πάσης προσενεςέραν εἶναι τὴν ὁμιλίαν αυτῶν, ἀιδεσιμώτατον δὲ παρ ̓ ἀυτὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρον εἶναι. καὶ ἅμα μὲν ἀπαθέςατον εἶναι, ἅμα δὲ φιλοςοργότατον· καὶ τό ἰδεῖν ἄνθρωπον σαφῶς ἔλάχιςον τῶν ἑαυτῶν καλῶν ἡγουμενον τὴν ἀυτου πολυμαθίην.

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Translation.—From Sextus, and from the contemplation of his character, I learnt what it was to live a life in harmony with nature; and that seemliness and dignity of deportment, which ensured the profoundest reverence at the very same time that his company was more winning than all the flattery in the world. To him I owe likewise that I have known a man at once the most dispassionate, VOL. III.

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