The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, : in prose and verse; serious, moral, and comical. In two volumes. ... To which is prefix'd, A character of Mr. Tho. Brown and his writings, by James Drake.

  • Tom Brown
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1707
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    have had refpeCt only to the firft, and general DTe, which has been made of it in the beginning to mccly and derideg yet this Word ought always to be writ in Latin with an ( u ) or (?) Satura, or Satira, and in Englifh by an (?) thofe who have wrote it with a (y) thought with Scaliger, Henjius, and a great many others, that the Di¬ vinities of the Groves, which the Grecians call’d Satyrs, the Romans Fawns, gave their Names to thefe Pieces and that of the Word Satyrus they had made Satyr a, and that thefe Satyrs had a great Affinity with the Satyrick Pieces of the Greeks, which is the abfolutely falie, as Cafaubon has very well prov’d it, in making it appear, 1 hat of the VFord Satyrus they could never make Satyr a, but Satyrica: And in firewing the Difference betwixt the Satyrick Poems of the Greeks, and the Roman Satyrs, Mr. Spanheim, in his line Preface to the Cafars, concerning the Emperor Julian, has added new Reflections to thofe which this Judicious Critick had advan¬ ced , and ire has effablifir’d, with a great deal of Judgment, five or fix efTeirtial Differences between thofe two Poems, which you may find in Jris Book. The Greeks had never any thing that came near this Roman Satyr, but their Silli which were alfo biting Poems, as they may eafrly be perceived to be yet, by fome Fragments of the Silli of Fimon. There was however this Difference, That the Silli of the Greeks were Tar odious, from one end to the other, which cannot be faid of the Roman Sa¬ tyrs ■, where, if fometimes you find fome Taro- diah, you may plainly fee that the Poet did not defign to affeCI: it, and by confequence the Taro- dia s do not make the Eflence ofa Satyr,as they do the Eflence of the Silli. Having
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