The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius

poet, and indicate a mind saturated with the divine ambrosia of Homer and Plato.

These Dissertations, therefore, as all of them are on very important moral and theological subjects, are highly worthy the attention of the liberal reader; and are calculated to be largely beneficial, notwithstanding their inaccuracy in certain parts which pertain to the sublimities of the Platonic philosophy. These inaccuracies, wherever they occur, I have endeavoured to correct in the Notes which accompany this translation.

With respect to the arrangement of these Dissertations, it is necessary to observe that, though this translation is made from Reiske’s Johann Jakob Reiske, an 18th-century German scholar known for his editions of Greek texts. edition of them, yet I have followed the order adopted by all the editions prior to that of Davis John Davies, who edited the works of Maximus of Tyre in 1703., for two reasons: first, because it did not appear to me that any alteration in the arrangement of the first editions was necessary, and I am an enemy to all innovations when they are not requisite; and, secondly, because it appears that the order which I have followed is the same with that