Etymology, structure, antiquity Reasons for Hour Texts and intentions None.

In an age when writing, if it exists at all, is a rare and secret art, the mists of antiquity descend after a very few generations.

Infinitely more ingenuity did the great comic poet of antiquity display, when he selected the Scarabaeus; as the food which had already served the purposes of digestion with the Rider, was still capable of affording nutrition to the animal: [Greek: nun d'att'an autos kataphagoo ta sitia.

It is a curious sight, the interior of a capanna, and affords an agreeable diversity to the antiquity hunter.

That part of the country next the sea is very barren and full of mountains, yet found we there an olde tombe of marble, with an epitaph of an ancient Greeke caracter, by antiquity neere worne out and past reading; which to the beholders seemed a monument of the greatnesse of the Grecian monarchy.

He guided, under circumstances of extreme difficulty, the cause of virtue, and his death is one of the noblest antiquity records; but his life was deeply marked by the taint of flattery, and not free from the taint of avarice, and it is unhappily certain that, after its accomplishment, he lent his pen to conceal or varnish one of the worst crimes of Nero.