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A54647	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.	Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.; Whately, Stephen.; Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699.	1699 (1699)	Wing P1961; ESTC R36673	106,737	246

my self ready to forgive those that have even to an Unpardonable degree provoked me there would be no room left for you to complain either of my Severities or of your own Sufferings Ep. 101. To Cleobulus V. Ep. 75 YOu put yourself as I am told to a great deal of unnecessary trouble upon my account The Camarinaeans can never have a Publick Assembly but that you are Speeching them into a War against me But all you Speechings are hitherto in vain The Camarinaeans well know that War is to be managed with other Instruments than the Tongue and that good Speakers may make but poor Generals So that if you would have them begin a War upon me First Demonstrate to them the Grounds you go upon and what Assurance you can give them of the Issue And when you shall have done this if they will not hearken to you then neither change your Note and Preach Peace to them and so perhaps you may carry your Point and enter them into a War For as the Case now stands with you 't is plain that 't is one of these two things they stick at either that they think the Counsel you give them dangerous or that they think the Counseller of it a Fool. As for my part I think both alike In the mean time to tell you what I am at I am resolving to come upon you not with Weaponless Words as you begin with me but with substantial Deeds and those such which they who have once Tryed have never after given me any Disturbance That 's my way of dealing with my Enemies and that the Camarinaeans well know and therefore have no mind to have the Experiment made upon themselves For they are not now to Learn how much better it is to have Phalaris their Friend than their Enemy Ep. 102. To Cleodicus YOu have been carrying on Grand Designs against me Cleodicus but much above your Reach Shall the Stallion of that Thracian Tanner's Neece the Wife of that Slave Autander who got his Estate by murdering his Patroon think himself a Match for Phalaris that Beast that Buggerer that Unnatural but I will not suffer my Pen to foul it self by naming thy Filthy Actions Were it worth my while to Chastise thee as whether it be or no I shall take time to consider I would do it with Blows not Words and to the utter Confusion of yourself and the whole Generation of you turn the mischief you designed against me upon your own head Ep. 103. To Stesichorus his Sons V. Ep. 54 VVHat more proper Consolation can one Administer to you Young men under your present Sorrows than to put you in mind of the Glories of that Father whose Death is the Cause of your Grief Stesichorus his Hearse is not to be attended with Tears but Hymns And indeed when I bid you cease those Sobs and Smitings of the Breast 't is not as if I supposed it a thing possible for a man to be insensible to the Resentments of Grief a Passion inseparable from our Nature but because I think them better bestowed upon more proper Objects upon those I mean the miseries of whose Life require our Compassions not their Death though the Death of even the Miserable too may justly be Lamented but not so the Death of Stesichorus who attained to so Honourable an old Age spent so many years in the service of those venerable Deities the Sacred Muses past all his days in the Delights of Verse and has left behind him a Name crowned with Immortal Glories For certainly to be a Poet is a Glory greater than which neither could I my self nor any man else Aspire to to stand so nearly Related to the Deity as Poets do For that Immortal Spirit which Diffuses it self throughout the Universe and Animates the whole Mass of Nature seems to me nothing else but Measure and Harmony Do you therefore the Sons of that Great and Admirable man entertain thoughts worthy of such a Father You have a great Task set before you to support the Honour of your Name and bear some tolerable Proportion to him that beg●t you But weep not over him nor let the Happy Fate of that Hero whose name will be had in everlasting Remembrance be to you a matter of Lamentation Despoil not you your Father of the Honours the Himoraeans have done him Since they have Decreed him to be Adored for a God do not you destroy the Belief they have of him by Mourning over him as over a man that is Dead For neither did he himself and so much I know of him unwillingly submit to the Common Fate or Grieve at the Thoughts of Dying But as in his incomparable Poems that Treasure of Wisdom to which you are more nearly Entituled and from whence all Mankind may learn to Copy after the Examples of virtue he celebrated the Fame of those Renowned Heroes who laid down their Life for Glory so when his own Period was come he quietly submitted to the stroak of Fate and yielded up his breath without a Trembling thought And when before that he fell into my hands as then his Enemy and lay under the expectation of a most Cruel End by his undaunted behaviour he plainly shewed that he did not conceive of what was coming upon him as a Dreadful thing but on the contrary discovered a more Resolved Spirit when my Prisoner and in Chains than when in Arms against me in the ●ield Thus wisdom Triumphed over Might and Disabled the Tyrant from hurting the Poet. For so I found it Life or Death Liberty or Torture were to him one and the same thing And therefore could I not Hurt him because I could not offer any thing to him with which he was not well pleased Surprized with so generous a Resolution my Anger turned into Adoration and I who had been at such a world of pains to get him into my hands when I had him as if I had been his Prisoner not he mine could do nothing else but supplicate him to accept of some Tokens of my Favour and thank him for doing me that Honour Nor do I think I hereby made him my Debtor for having given him Twelve years of Life for so long after was it before he dyed but I shall always own my self his as for that strength of Spirit with which he Inspired me in General so particularly for his having placed me which only he could have done above the Fear of Dying Ep. 104. To the Catanaeans FOr the insufferable injuries committed by you upon my self and my Subjects you may think perhaps that you have already paid enough and more than enough to make Satisfaction for the Thirty of my men whom you impiously cast into the Flames having lost five hundred of your own and for the seven Talents of which you plundered me being despoiled of the best Branches of your Revenues But let me tell you what you have hitherto suffered is but a praelude