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.
Author
Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
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London :: Printed by Fr. Leach ... for the author,
1699.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54647.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Ep. 3. To Tyrrhenus.
IF even those whom Necessity puts
upon Criminal practices, must needs
be filled with dismal expectations of
what's to follow, as you were pleased to
preach to the Aegestaeans; advising them
to submit with Patience to the Decrees
of Providence, and leave it to Divine
Justice to take vengeance on me: then
what may you your self expect, so load∣ed
with guilt as you are, and whose
Crimes cannot be charged upon the score
of Necessity, but are all of them purely
owing to the free Choice of a malicious
heart?
Notes
I confess this Epistle doth sound somewhat more Chri∣stianly in the Translation than in the Original. But as I make no doubt of its being written since the time of the Apostles, so I conceive that I have not Paraphrased, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, beyond the intention of the Text. Vid. Not. Ox.