THE ATTIC NIGHTS F AULUS GELLIUS: TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, BY THE REV. W. BE LO E, F. S. A. TRANSLATOR OF HERODOTUS, &c. IN THREE VOLUME S. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARN. M DCC XCV. An accurate enquiry into the meaning of those words which are found in the first of Cicero's Orations against Anthony-" But many things feem to happen contrary to the order of nature and of fate."-Examination whether those two words, "fatum and natura," have the fame or a different fignification. ARCUS CICERO, in his first Philippic, has left these words: "I haftened to follow him, whom those who were prefent did not Fate.] Cicero's treatife on Fate has come down to us in fo mutilated a state, that it is not eafy to collect from it what was his opinion on that fubject. Whatever were his private fentiments upon it, as a philofopher, he would speak, as an orator, in popular language; according to which, a VOL. III. B man |