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5: Michel Dorigny, painter and engraver, native of St. Quentin, pupil and son-in-law of Simon Vouet, whose style he adopted, was Professor in the Paris Academy of Painting, and died at the age of 48, in 1665. His son and Vouet's grandson, Nicolo Dorigny, in aid of whose undertaking Steele wrote this paper in the Spectator, had been invited from Rome by several of the nobility, to produce, with licence from the Queen, engravings from Raphael's Cartoons, at Hampton Court. He offered eight plates 19 inches high, and from 25 to 30 inches long, for four guineas subscription, although, he said in his Prospectus, the five prints of Alexanders Battles after Lebrun were often sold for twenty guineas.] * * * * * ADVERTISEMENT. _There is arrived from_ Italy _a Painter who acknowledges himself the greatest Person of the Age in that Art, and is willing to be as renowned in this Island as he declares he is in Foreign Parts_. The Doctor paints the Poor for nothing. * * * * * No. 227. Tuesday, November 20, 1711. Addison. [Greek: O moi ego ti patho; ti ho dussuos; ouch hypakoueis; Tan Baitan apodus eis kumata taena aleumai Homer tos thunnos skopiazetai Olpis ho gripeus. Kaeka mae pothano, to ge man teon hadu tetuktai. Theoc.] In my last _Thursday's_ Paper I made mention of a Place called _The Lovers' Leap_, which I find has raised a great Curiosity among several of my Correspondents. I there told them that this Leap was used to be taken from a Promontory of _Leucas_. This _Leucas_ was formerly a Part of _Acarnania_, being [joined to[1]] it by a narrow Neck of Land, which the Sea has by length of Time overflowed and washed away; so that at present _Leucas_ is divided from the Continent, and is a little Island in the _Ionian_ Sea. The Promontory of this Island, from whence the Lover took his Leap, was formerly called _Leucate_. If the Reader has a mind to know both the Island and the Promontory by their modern Titles, he will find in his Map the ancient Island of _Leucas_ under the Name of St. _Mauro_, and the ancient Promontory of _Leucate_ under the Name of _The Cape of St._ Mauro. Since I am engaged thus far in Antiquity, I must observe that _Theocritus_ in the Mo
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