Summary: the same name, is so great, as to confute ait that part of this fatirical fpeech of Ifzus, which attributes to the little ftudy of juftice poffeffed by his brother pleaders, their infufficiency in fuch compofitions; nor is the obfervation in fa& more illuftrious than the very numerous examples of aughtin equity, of which I fluall. foon lay before the reader iimilar proof. First of all, we learn from the genealogy of Phtryne, that fhe was the daughter of Socrates; and from that of the Teithor, we find that his father's name was Deinias, and his grandfather was Sphelm. Through con- velrsations, which I have held on this fubject wish feveral gentlemen of great taste and learn- ing, I have lately difcovered, that the pedigrec on the father's fide ufuaty given in fuch cafes, did not extend beyond the grandfather, and that the icgnature of the party had in the earlielt limes fufliced to eftablish his liberty; Bud, baffling the circumftances of fuch caufes, which thun the colouring of rhc- torick, and evidently demonstrate the abfedilty-f an objection which party fpirit hath raifed, and which I fhall foon confute by the production of proofs trom the publick and private hiftory The names. of Periclies, Tropiclus, Publius, and Tbeophanes,. Frequent the court.gate, and put forth their numbers,'Itill tlefs with Hlepeeto Matron, Starry, Thefea, and Named that venerated orator, who proceeded' from the court Some modern critics, who accuse the wod- darity as well as the harmony of this paffage, have entirely neglefled the reformity of peneterc haplick virion of its terms, and regard it mereie as a trite and melodiousforg'- ry in the diction of Ifupes, novaion prac- tised by many competent autharities, himfelf on a very fimilar occafion.