COMICORUM GRÆCORUM FRAGMENTA. EPICHARMUS'. Απολεῖ με τὸ γένος· μὴ λέγ', εἰ φιλεῖς ἐμὲ, 3 καὶ τὸ γένος, ἀριθμοῦσίν τε πρὸς πάππους ὅσοι. Σκύθης τις ὄλεθρος, ὁ δ ̓ Ανάχαρσις οὐ Σκύθης; 5 10 1 Hoc Fragmentum Epicharmo tribuit Stobæus Τ. 86. 6. sed rectius Menandro Τ. 87. 4. quod et Gaisfordius notavit. Vide Porsoni Advers. p. 308. Dobræi Advers. T. II. p. 361. Meinek. ad Menand. p. 191. Nimirum Dorica dialecto utebatur Epicharmus. Ceterum Menandro potius quam Epicharmo olim tribuerunt etiam Morelius Ex Vet. Com. Fab. Sent. p. 3. et H. Stephanus Com. Gr. Sent. p. 97. et 153. Fragmenta duo Pseud-Epicharmea merito taxat Meinekius 1. c. Fragmentorum Epicharmeorum editionem ibi pollicitus; quæ tamen, ut videtur, lucem haud vidit. Epicharmi Fragmenta collegit H. P. Kruseman, Harlem. 1835. Nonnulla etiam huc spectantia vulgavit C. J. Grysar Colon. 1828. sed notus mihi nomine tantum est libellus. De Pseud-Epicharmo consulendi sunt Fabricius Bibl. Gr. T. II. p. 302, 3. Harles. Dobræus 1. c. • "Ad sententiam egregie convenit Plato Theæt. p. 174. d. Ta δὲ δὴ γένη ὑμνούντων, ως γενναῖός τις, ἕπτα πάππους ἔχων πλουσίους ἀποφῆναι, παντάπασιν ἀμβλὺ καὶ ἐπὶ σμικρὸν ὁρώντων ἡγεῖται τὸν ἔπαινον, ὑπὸ ἀπαιδευσίας οὐ δυναμένων λογίζεσθαι, ὅτι πάππων καὶ προγόνων μυριάδες ἑκάστῳ γεγόνασιν ἀναρίθμητοι.” ΜΕΙΝΕΚ. 4 K. T. λ. • Stobæus Τ. 87. 4. οὐδὲν δ ̓ ἔχουσι πλεῖον, οὐδ ̓ ἐρεῖς et sic edidit Meinekius, Valckenario obsecutus Diatr. p. 150. Shakspear. All's well that ends well II. 3. 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which | I can build up. Strange is it, that our bloods, of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, | would quite confound distinction, yet stand off in differences so mighty: If she be all that is virtuous, (save what thou dislik'st, | a poor physician's daughter) thou dislik'st | of virtue for the name: but do not so: from lowest place when virtuous things proceed, | the place is dignified by th' doer's deed: | where great additions swell, and virtue none, | it is a dropsied honour: good alone | is good, without a name; vileness is so: the property by what it is should go, not by the title. She is young, wise, fair ; | in these to nature she's immediate heir ; | and these breed honour: that is honour's scorn, which challenges itself as honour's born, and is not like the sire: Honours best thrive, | when rather from our acts we them derive | than our fore-goers: the mere word's a slave, | debauch'd on every tomb; on every grave | a lying trophy; and as oft is dumb, | where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb of honour'd bones indeed. Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale 378. But, for you say a long descended race, | and wealth, and dignity, and pow'r, and place, | make gentlemen, and that your high degree is much disparag'd to be match'd with me; | know this, my lord, nobility of blood | is but a glittering and fallacious good. | The nobleman is he whose noble mind | is fill'd with inborn worth, unborrow'd from his kind. Id. Sigismunda and Guiscardo 509. Thus born alike, from virtue first began | the difference that distinguish'd man from man: | he claim'd no title from descent of blood, | but that which made him noble made him good. Et rursum 556. Ev'n mighty monarchs oft are meanly born, and kings by birth to lowest rank return; | all subject to the pow'r of giddy chance, |for fortune can depress, or can advance; | but true nobility is of the mind, not -giv'n by chance, and not by chance design'd. Thomson. Coriolanus III. 3. I tell thee then, whoe'er amidst the sons | of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue, displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble | of nature's own creating. Such have risen, | sprung from the dust; or |