A Few Days in Athens, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from A Few Days in Athens, Vol. 1: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in HerculaneumThat I may not obtain credit for more learning than I possess, I beg to acknowledge the assistance I have received in my version of the curi ous relict of antiquity now offered to the public from the beautiful Italian mss. Of the erudite Professor of Greek in the university of I hesitate to designate more clearly the illustrious Hellenist whose la bours have brought to light this curious fragment. Since the establish ment of the saintly domination of the Van dals throughout the territo ries of the rebellious and heterodox Italy, and particularly in consequence of the ordonnance of his most orthodox, most legitimate, and most Aus trian Majesty, bearing that his dominions being in want of good subjects, his colleges are forbidden to send forth good scholars, * it has become ne cessary for the gownsmen of the classic peninsula to banish'all profane learning from their lectures and their libraries, and to evince a holy ah horrence of the sciences and arts which they erst professed. The list of the class books now employed in the transalpine schools is exceedingly curious, I regret that I have mislaid the one lately supplied to me by an illustrious Italian exile. My memory recals to me only that in the school of rhetoric, the orationspf Cicero are superseded by those of the Mar quis of Londonderry, and the philippics of Demosthenes by those of M. De Peyronnet that the professors of history have banished the decades of Livy for the martyrs of Mons. De Chateaubriand and that the students of Greek, in place of the Odes of Finder, and the retreat of the ten thou sand from Cunaxa, construe the hexameters of the English Laureate, and the advance of Louis the XVIII. Upon Ghent. In this state of the Italian world of letters, it is not surprising that the scholar, to whose per severance, ingenuity, and learning, the public are indebted for the fol lowing fragment, should object to lay claim to the honour which is his due.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.