A few days in Athens being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

“Oh! monstrous,” cried the young Theon, as he came from the portico of Zeno. “Ye Gods! and will ye suffer your names to be thus blasphemed? Why do ye not strike with thunder the...

The astonished, the affrighted Theon started from the arm of the sage, and, staggering backwards, was saved, probably, from falling, by a statue that stood against the wall on o...

The steeds of the sun had not mounted the horizon, when Theon took the road to the garden. He found the gate open. The path he entered on was broad and even, and shaded on eithe...

“I’ll explain directly—Give me breath—and yet I must be quick, for they are close on my heels. Gryphus, the cynic—some of you must have seen him. Well, he’s coming side by side...

The fervor of the day had declined, when Theon issued to the street from the house of Epicurus: at that instant he met in the face his friend Cleanthes; he ran to his embrace; b...

Theon rushed forward: He knelt; he raised the head of his friend: Breathless, agitated, terrified, he called his name with the piercing cry of agony and despair. All was commoti...

The Sage advanced towards Theon: he laid a hand on either of his shoulders, and kissed his glowing forehead. “Thanks to my generous defender. Your artless tale, my son, if it ha...

The sun was in its fervor, when Theon issued from one of the public baths. He was not disposed for rest, yet the heat of the streets was insufferable. “I will seek the Gardens,”...

They turned into a thicket, and proceeding some way, caught on the still air the notes of a flute. They advanced and came to a beautiful bank of verdure, bordered by the river,...

Epicurus stood in the midst of his expectant scholars. “My sons,” he said, “why do you enter the Garden? Is it to seek happiness, or to seek virtue and knowledge?—Attend, and I...

The sun had far declined from its meridian, yet no cool breeze tempered the fervors of the heat. The air was chained in oppressive stillness, when suddenly a bustling wind shook...

Theon, rising recruited from the warm bath, and his limbs being well rubbed with ointments, joined the party at supper in health and spirits. It consisted of the Master, Leontiu...

Night’s refreshing airs fanned the cheeks of Theon, and rustled the myrtle on his brow; but the subtle fever of love which swept through his veins, and throbbed in his heart and...

Uneasy thoughts bred unquiet slumbers; and Theon rose from a restless couch, before the first blush of Aurora tinged the forehead of the sky. He trod the paths of the garden, an...

Theon remained transfixed to the same spot of earth on which the Sage left him. A confused train of thoughts travelled through his brain, which his reason sought in vain to arre...

A more than usual crowd attended the instructions of the Sage. The gay, and the curious, the learned, and the idle, of all ages, and of either sex, from the restless population...