Page 83. NOTE. For "The Lord Mayor reclining on an otto- ottoman." Page 206, line 2 of note, omit Hampden. ROM the courts above a visitor But the dress of English Droll. For in that memorable year When Mercury turn'd auctioneer,2 1 An Eleatic Philosopher, of Abdera in Thrace. Born 513; died 404, B. C. 2 In the "Sale of Philosophers," as described by Lucian, the heads of the different sects are brought to the hammer, Mercury being the auctioneer. Pythagoras fetches ten Minæ, Diogenes, with his rags and cynicism, two obolshe may do for a house-dog! Aristippus (the founder of the Cyrenaic sect) is too fine a gentleman for any body to venture on. Democritus and Heraclitus are alike unsaleable. Socrates, with whom Lucian seems to confound the Platonic philosophy, after being well ridiculed and abused, is bought by Dion, of Syracuse, for the large sum of two talents. Epicurus produces two Minæ. Chrysippus, the B |