After this, I think "Travellers _versus_ Factors" shall be our motto, though the above Mr. Thornton has condemned "hoc genus omne," for mistake and misrepresentation. "Ne Sutor ultra crepidam," "No merchant beyond his bales." N.B. For the benefit of Mr. Thornton, "Sutor" is not a proper name. [§1][For Pouqueville's story of the "thériakis" or opium-eaters, see _Voyage en Morée_, 1805, ii. 126.] [§2][Thornton's _Present State of Turkey_, ii. 173.] [241] _Recherches Philosophiques sur les Grecs_, 1787, i. 155. [242] {196} [De Pauw (_Rech. Phil. sur les Grecs_, 1788, ii. 293), in repeating Plato's statement (_Laches_, 191), that the Lacedæmonians at Platæa first fled from the Persians, and then, when the Persians were broken, turned upon them and won the battle, misapplies to them the term θρασύδειλοι [thrasy/deiloi] (Arist., _Eth. Nic._, iii. 9.7)--men, that is, who affect the hero, but play the poltroon.] [243] [Attached as a note to line 562 _of Hints from Horace_ (MS. M.).] [244] ["I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban." Shakespeare, _King Lear_, act iii. sc. 4, line 150.] [245] [For April, 1810: vol. xvi. pp. 55, _sq_.] [246] [Diamant or Adamantius Coray (1748-1833), scholar and phil-Hellenist, declared his views on the future of the Greeks in the preface to a translation of Beccaria Bonesani's treatise, _Dei Delitti e delle Pene_ (1764), which was published in Paris in 1802. He began to publish his _Bibliothèque Hellénique_, in 17 vols., in 1805. He was of Chian parentage, but was born at Smyrna. Κοραη Αὐτοβιογραφια [Koraê Au)tobiographia], Athens, 1891.] [247] I have in my possession an excellent lexicon "τρίγλωσσον [tri/glôsson]" which I received in exchange from S. G----, Esq., for a small gem: my antiquarian friends have never forgotten it or forgiven me. [Λεξικὸν τρίγλωσσον τῆς Γαλλικῆς [Lexiko\n tri/glôsson tê~s Gallikê~s], Ἰταλικῆς, καὶ 'Ρωμαικῆς διαλέκτου, κ.τ.λ. [I)talikê~s, kai\ 'Rômaikê~s diale/ktou, k.t.l.], 3 vols., Vienna, 1790. By Georgie Vendoti (Bentotes, or Bendotes) of Joanina. The book was in Hobhouse's possession in 1854.] [248] In Gail's pamphlet against Coray, he talks of "throwing the insolent Hellenist out of the windows." On this a French critic exclaims, "Ah, my God! throw an Hellenist out of the window! what sacrilege!" It certainly would be a serious business for those authors who dwell in the attics: but I have quoted the passage merely to prove the similarity of style among the controversialists of all polished countries; London or Edinburgh could hardly parallel this Parisian ebullition. [Jean Baptiste Gail (1755-1829), Professor of Greek in the Collége de France, published, in 1810, a quarto volume entitled, _Réclamations de J. B. Gail, ... et observations sur l'opinion en virtu de laquelle le juri--propose de décerner un prix à M. Coray, à l'exclusion de la chasse de Xénophon, du Thucydide, etc., grec-latin-français, etc._]