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 you who are now poor and unknown, the son of an obscure and indigent father, going to embrace a mean and illiberal profession, shall soon be the envy and admiration of all men, crowned with glory and honor, praised and caressed by the rich and great, clothed in such a garment as this, and (shewing her own splendid vest) you shall be placed placed in the first seat, adorned with, and raised to rank and precedency. If you travel, even in foreign countries you shall not live unknown or inglorious; for I will render you so illustrious, that whosoever beholds you shall point you out to his neighbor, and say, "that is he."[1] you who are now poor and unknown, the son of an obscure and indigent father, going to embrace a mean and illiberal profession, shall soon be the envy and admiration of all men, crowned with glory and honor, praised and caressed by the rich and great, clothed in such a garment as this, and (shewing her own splendid vest) you shall be placed placed in the first seat, adorned with, and raised to rank and precedency. If you travel, even in foreign countries you shall not live unknown or inglorious; for I will render you so illustrious, that whosoever beholds you shall point you out to his neighbor, and say, "that is he."[1]
  
-> [1] That is heDigito monstrari & dicier: hie est. Pers. fati,+> [1] That is he Digito monstrari & dicier: hie est. Pers. fati,
 > Muneris hoc tui est > Muneris hoc tui est
 > Quod monstror digito praetereuntiumr > Quod monstror digito praetereuntiumr
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 Socrates[2] himself, bred up by a statuary, turned his mind to other things; he quit his profession, and came to me; and is not he the theme of every song? Socrates[2] himself, bred up by a statuary, turned his mind to other things; he quit his profession, and came to me; and is not he the theme of every song?
  
-> [1] AeschinesA great orator, and rival of Demosthenes, whose Philippics so stung the powerful invader of the liberties of Greece, that he applied to Aeschines to answer them. See Aelian.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, by G. W. Vernon, Esq. William M’Kenzie, 1792.)) +> [1] Aeschines A great orator, and rival of Demosthenes, whose Philippics so stung the powerful invader of the liberties of Greece, that he applied to Aeschines to answer them. See Aelian.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, by G. W. Vernon, Esq. William M’Kenzie, 1792.)) 
-> [2] SocratesAs Diogenes Laertius informs us, was the son of Sophroniscus, a statuary, and Phanarete, a midwife.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, by G. W. Vernon, Esq. William M’Kenzie, 1792.))+> [2] Socrates As Diogenes Laertius informs us, was the son of Sophroniscus, a statuary, and Phanarete, a midwife.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, by G. W. Vernon, Esq. William M’Kenzie, 1792.))
  
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