CHAP. LXIV. [P. 416.]
Ambo florentes ætatibus. Arcades ambo
Et certare pares et respondere paretiæ.
By the way it may be asked, as a sort of desultory question, at what period did these same Arcadians redeem their character? In primitive times, they were considered as a mighty stupid people, celebrated, as they afterwards became, as poets. Athenæus tells us, that they despised music, and refused to receive the art among them. Lucian also, in his Treatise on Astrology, relates that they were the only people who refused and despised it, and professed themselves to be of greater antiquity than the moon.
The Tragi-Comedy of the Fœminæ Concurientes, or women assembling themselves together, here concludes.
CHAP. LXV. [P. 421.]
Of the venerable personage here depicted, it may be truly said, that he
Sinks to the grave by unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way,
And all his prospects brightning to the last,