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these specimens of perfect translation, in which not only the ideas of the original are completely transfused, but the manner most happily imitated, I add the following admirable translations by Mr Cumberland, of two fragments from the Greek drammatists Timocles and Diphilus, which are preserved by Athenæus.

first of these passages beautifully illustrates the moral uses of the tragic drama: