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APPENDIX. The translations in this volume were made as follows : — Demosthenes, by a writer unnamed. Cicero, by Thomas Fuller, D. D. Demetrius, by John Nalson, LL. D. Antoxt, by Charles Fraser, M. D. Dion, by Robert Uvedale, LL. D. Brutus, by R. Duke, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (the translator of the Life of Theseus). Aratus, by John Bateman, M. D. Artaxerxes, by Mr. Oakly. Galb., by Andrew Taylor, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Otho, by Samuel Garth, M. D. (the author of the Dispensary, the " well- natured Garth," gratefully remembered by Pope ; a short account of whom is given in Johnson's Lives of the Poets). A few additional notes are subjoined. Life of Demosthenes, page 3. — Ccecilius, who was so bold as to write a comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero, was a Greek rhetorician of Cale Acte, in Sicily, who lived in the time of Augustus, and whose books were much studied in the succeeding period. He and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are mentioned together. Suidas says his parents were slaves, his name, until he obtained the Roman citizenship, Archagathus, and that in religious opinions he was a Jew. Page 6. — " From the Persian war to the Peloponnesian, the Lacedasmonians and Athenians were continually engaged, one way or another, in military opera- tions, and thus became," says Thucydides, " thoroughly well prepared and thoroughly expert in war, getting their training with real danger" (/., 18) ; their lessons being taken at the peril of their lives if they failed, their mili- tary exercises performed not on parade, but in batde. Page 13. — He was no easy or good-natured man is from Iliad 20, 467, — said of Achilles. Tros, the son of Alastor, took hold of his knees and besought (607)