e this sight. Whatever came in debate at the assembly,
if it were of small consequence, they determined it themselves; but if
of importance, they always sent for Timoleon, who, being brought by his
servants in a chair, and set in the middle of the theatre, there ever
followed a great shout, after which some time was allowed for the
benedictions of the people; and then the matter proposed, when Timoleon
had spoken to it, was put to the suffrage; which given, his servants
bore him back in his chair, accompanied by the people clapping their
hands, and making all expressions of joy and applause, till, leaving him
at his house, they returned to the despatch of their business. And this
was the life of Timoleon, till he died of age, and dropped like a mature
fruit, while the eyes of the people were as the showers of autumn.

The life and death of my Lord Archon (but that he had his senses to the
last, and that his character, as not the restorer, but the founder of a
commonwealth, was greater) are so exactly the same, that (seeing by men
wholly ignorant of antiquity I am accused of writing romance) I shall
repeat nothing: but tell you that this year the whole nation of Oceana,
even to the women and children, were in mourning, where so great or
sad a funeral pomp had never been seen or known. Some time after the
performance of the obsequies a Colossus, mounted on a brazen horse of
excellent fabric, was erected in the piazza of the Pantheon, engraved
with this inscription on the eastern side of the pedestal:

HIS NAME

IS AS

PRECIOUS OINTMENT

And on the wester with the following:

GRATA PATRIA

Piae et Perpetuae Memorie

D.D.

OLPHAUS MEGALETOR

LORD ARCHON, AND SOLE LEGISLATOR

OF

OCEANA

PATER PATRIAE

Invincible in the Field The Greatest of Captains
Inviolable in his Faith The Best of Princes
Unfeigned in his Zeal The Happiest of Legislators
Immortal in his Fame The Most Sincere of Christians

Who setting the Kingdoms of Earth at Liberty,
Took the Kingdom of the Heavens by Violence.

Anno AEtat. suoe 116

Hujus Reipub. 50

DESCRIPTION OF OCEANA

OCEANA is saluted by the panegyrist after this manner: "O the most
blessed and fortunate of all countries, Oceana! how deservedly has
nature with the bounties of heaven an