Ep. 31. To Stesichorus his Daughters.
V. Ep. 15. 85.
AS for the Tauromenites, on whose behalf (according to the last Com∣mand, as you tell me, of your Dying fa∣ther)
The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.
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- The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.
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- Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
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you have written to me; they do not deserve the least Mercy at my hands; who without any manner of Provocation in the world began an unjust War upon me. But I will not measure my Respects to Stesichorus, by the Merits of the Tauro∣menites. They shall, according to your Letter, have the Ransom-money which they paid for their Prisoners, returned to them. Nor do I in This only readi∣ly Obey when Stesichorus Commands, but there could not have been That thing which he should have asked of me in vain. For Though Dead to the rest of the World (who think* 1.1 Dying and being Buried the same thing•• he shall always be Alive to me. Nor shall my passion against the Tauromenites so far Transport me as to suffer Stesi∣chorus to be Denied any thing that Phalaris can Grant. A Deference due to him from all the World, but more especially from me, who, out of the vast Multitudes of men my occasions have led me to know and observe, have ne∣ver yet met with so Illuminated a Soul. I have therefore ordered them their Moneys again: and in so doing, I do not think the Memory of your Father so much Honoured by me, as I think
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my self Honoured by answering his De∣sires.
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* 1.1
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. verbatim. For though he seem Dead to some (which no wise wan would say).