Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

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the Fibres of their Bodies, and disposes
the People to such an idle indolent Hu-
mour. Whatever it proceeds from, we
find they were formerly as famous for it
as they are at present.
This was perhaps the Reason that the
Ancients, tell us one. of the Sirens was
bury’d in this City, which thence re-
ceiv’d the Name of Parthenope.

■■-Improba Siren
Defidia-Hor. Sa. 3. L. x.
Sloth, the deluding Siren of the Mind.
-— Et in Otia natam
Part henopen - . O v. Met. L. i s.
--Otiofa Neapolis. H. Ep. s.
Parthenope, for idle Hours design’d,
To Luxury and Ease unbends the
Mind.
Parthenopenon dives opum, non spreta vi-
goris,
Nam molies Urbi ritus atque hospita Mie*
Otia, et ex emt urn cur is gravioribus a*
vum:
Sir enum dedit una fuum et memorabile no*
men Par*