accelerated by the hope of accomplishing, without delay, the nuptials of his daughter with the emperor of the East.”--GIBBON’S _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, vol. iii. p. 209. The punctuation throughout this piece is so inaccurate, and the paragraphs so strangely divided, that it must have been printed from a copy very carelessly written. In the present passage, we find _Rafiany_, instead of _Rufinus_. MALONE. [33] A. D. 312. He suffered for favouring the Arians. MALONE. [34] A. D. 415. He was minister of Caphargamala, and pretended to have been instructed by a dream of the burial place of the proto-martyr Stephen, Gamaliel, and other saints. See GIBBON’S _History_, vol. iii. p. 97. Several other persons of this name, besides those here mentioned, are enumerated by Fabricius. _Bibl. Græc._ iv. 508. [35] Dr Franklin seems disposed to fix on the year 90. [36] _Procurator principis_. Under Marcus Aurelius. [37] See _Juv._ sat. i. 44.; vii. 148.; xv. 111. _Quintil._ lib. x. cap. 3. [38] Dr Jasper Mayne, who published a translation of some select dialogues of Lucian, in folio, in 1664. [39] I follow Mr Malone in reading _might_; the printed copy has _must_. [40] This is a gross mistake, 180 years intervening between the death of Aurelius and the reign of Julian. [41] Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d’Ablancourt, whose translation of the Dialogues of Lucian into French was first published at Paris in 1634. His continuation of the true history of Lucian is very much in the tone of the original. [42] This observation had been made by Gilbertas Cognatus, and by Thomas Hickes, in his Life of Lucian, printed in 1634. MALONE. [43] Entitled “Philopatris.” The Christian religion, and its mysteries, are ridiculed in this piece with very little ceremony. [44] Gesner has written a long Latin essay upon this point, which is subjoined to the third volume of Lucian’s works, in the 4to edition of Hemsterhucius. [45] I follow Mr Malone in reading _eclectic_ for _elective_. [46] The best judges have condemned Εταιρικοι Διαλογοι, or “Dialogues of the Harlots,” as not being genuine. They are at any rate gross and devoid of humour. [47] I presume a cant phrase for a graft from that garden of knowledge. [48] The work alluded to, which was written by the Rev. Dr John Eachard, (Master of Catharine Hall, in Cambridge, and author of the “Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy,”) was published in 1671, and was entitled “Mr Hobbes’s State of Nature considered; in a Dialogue between Philautus and Timothy.” MALONE. [49] This gentleman, whom our author has again mentioned with esteem, in the “Parallel of Poetry and Painting,” (Vol. XVII. p. 312.) was the son of Sir Walter Moyle, and was born in the year 1672. He was educated to the study of law, and became a member of Parliament in 1695. He composed a variety of treatises, on various subjects, which are comprised in a collection of three volumes 8vo, the last being posthumous. Mr Moyle died in 1721.