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LETTER
CLVII. CLEANDER to CRATIPPUS.
Discourse with an Athenian on public inscriptions.
CLVIII. CLEANDER to HYDASPES.
Page 298
A conversation with EURIPIDES on the machinery of tragedies. Some
reasons suggested, why the Athenians have recourse to fabulous
story alone for their plots. Exhorts him to build a theatre at Susa.
Sends him a sketch of a play entitled, CYRUS in Sardis.
303
CLIX. SMERDIS to CLEander.
Endeavours to convince him, that oracles and divination have their
rise from ARIMANIUS. Origin of evil according to the Magian
theology.
CLX. GOBRY AS to CLEAnder.
314
His conduct with regard to CLEON applauded; and his apprehensions
of a discovery removed. Instructs him in what manner to confer
with CLEON. ARTAPHERNES ready to set out on his Spartan
embassy. Encloses the king's letter to that state.
CLXI. CRATIPPUS to CLEANDER.
318
The unreasonableness of national prejudices. Character of ARISTO-
MENES the Messenian.
316
CLXII. CLEANDER to SMERDIS.
Recites a discourse of SOCRATES on the immortality of the soul, in a
visit to a sick friend.
CLXIII. CLEANDER to GoBRYAS.
332
His uneasy situation at Athens; submission to the king's orders.
CLEON's return from Sphacteria, and speech to the people. Assembly's
decree about the prisoners, and answer to the Spartans' proposals
of peace. NICIAS's ineffectual expedition to Corinth. CLEON'S
extravagant flights. Conference between him and CLEANDER.
Advice about a general pacification
337
CLXIV. CRATIPPUS to CLEANDER.
Reflections on ARTAPHERNES's journey and commission. Massacre
of two thousand Helots. Expresses his detestation of such an act
of barbarity.
CLXV. CLEANDER to HYDASPES.
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Conversation with ARISTOPHANES on the turn of his comedies.
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353
CLXVI. ORSAMES to CLEANDER.
ARTEUS visits him at Taoces; his thoughts on retirement. Characters
of PARMYS, AZANE, and the other companions of ORSAMES;
rejoices in his own felicity at having entered into a family untainted
with the vices of the age. Invites CLEANDER to share the pleasures
of the place and the company.
362
CLXVII. CLEANDER to HARBAHAL of Sidon, admiral of the Persian gallies.
Congratulates him on his promotion: tells him, in what particulars
the Persian fleet requires a reformation. Some remarks on the
naval power and commerce of the Athenians: the former not to
be had without first acquiring the latter.
367
CLXVIII. CLEANDER to SMERDIS.
The intercommunity of religious ceremonies amongst the Greeks. Some particulars of their forms and manner of worship.
374
CLXIX. CLEANDER to SMERDIS.
On sacrifices.
379
CLXX. SMERDIS to CLEANDER.
Maintains, that a regard to our own happiness is a just and honourable
motive to the practice of virtue.
383
CLXXI. CLEANDER to GOBRYAS.
Fragment of a letter; in which the king's illness, and the treachery
of TERITEUCHMES, and of the governors of Cyprus and Egypt, are alluded to.
387
CLXXII. INTAPHERNES to CLEANDER.
Solemnity of the king's birth day. Death and character of HYDASPES
the chamberlain.
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CLXXIII. CLEANDER to HYLLUS.
Gives him directions as to the management of his farms and villa,
392
CLXXIV. CLEANDER to TERI BAZUS.
Expresses great satisfaction in being restored to terms of friendship
with him. Enters into an account of the sources of wealth in
Athens, and its revenues. Project for the improvement of the
silver mines. Contributions levied on the allies. All the taxes
paid in current money to the state, contrary to the custom of
Persia.
CLXXV. CLEANDER to GOBRYAS.
395
Surprised at the seizure of ARTAPHERNES in Thrace, and his arrival
at Athens. Conference with CLEON on that subject. Speculations
of the people about it. Delivers his own opinion of the cause and
of that event.
consequences
CLXXVI. CLEANDER to GOBRYAS.
402
Debate in the assembly on the scheme of an expedition for the next
year against the island of Cythera. Speeches of CLEON, DIODOTUS,
EPIGENES, and ALCIBIADES.
CLXXVII. SAPPHO to CLEANDER.
408
Compliments him on an ode, which he appears to have written upon
her. Desires to be distinguished by the domestic virtues, rather
than by those external charms which shine so much in poetry. 418
CLXXVIII. SAPPHO to the same.
Expostulates with him upon some liberties, which he is supposed to
have taken with her character, and renounces all future correspondence
with him.
420
CLXXIX. CLEANDER to GOBRY AS.
Good effects, which the confining PYTHON has produced at Athens.
Substance of the assembly's letter to the king. Gives the reasons,
why ARTAPHERNES and himself have not exactly followed their
instructions. Election of embassadors for the Persian court.
Their characters.
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APPENDIX.
CLXXX. CLEANDER to SMERDIS.
This letter (acknowledged to be a spurious one by the Translator,)
contains a vision on the origin, progress, and revolutions both of
ancient and modern physics.
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