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APPENDIX. 501
TRANSLATION.
Gentlemex,
I address this friendly salutation to your excellence
From Libadea, 22d July.
I was filled with delight when I received your admirable letter, which acquainted me
with vour health, that has been providentially preserved, and with your arrival at the re-
nowned Athens, where you experience so much transport in contemplating the antiquities. I
shall never forget your excellence; and, though you are absent, my mind is with you as if
you were present: and I joy in your joys. The friendship between us was not caused by
the ties of kindred, or of country, or by what Homer calls ifnjJuxn; fyartivy, « the vivifying
parity of age," so much as by a sympathy in manners and in pursuits, by which friendships
are best cemented, and are rendered most permanent. Your natural goodness makes you
magnify my services, which were little, compared with your deserts; and your high-minded
generosity has not only overlooked my defects, but has elevated them into virtues. Any
Intelligence respecting you will always be most acceptable to me; and your health will
always be an object of my prayers. Into whatever regions your travels may lead you, I
supplicate Heaven that they may be happy and prosperous. The absence of friends, whose
worth i- BO great, is to me truly afflicting; but the distress is alleviated, and the privation
Irmmrd, by the recollections which the multiplicity of your learning, and the kindness of
youf manners, have left behind.
Thus much for the present May God bless you with many happy years! Be wise,
and, as the toiling bees, collect the most exquisite sweets, and treasure them up for the
benefit of your country, that the wreath of glory may hereafter be bound around your brow.
Nor ever forget that I am the friend and the servant of your excellency.
JOHN LOGOTHETI.
And I the secretary salute you as my duty requires.
TRANSLATION.
Gentlemex,
I address this friendly salutation to your excellence
From Libadea, 22d July.
I was filled with delight when I received your admirable letter, which acquainted me
with vour health, that has been providentially preserved, and with your arrival at the re-
nowned Athens, where you experience so much transport in contemplating the antiquities. I
shall never forget your excellence; and, though you are absent, my mind is with you as if
you were present: and I joy in your joys. The friendship between us was not caused by
the ties of kindred, or of country, or by what Homer calls ifnjJuxn; fyartivy, « the vivifying
parity of age," so much as by a sympathy in manners and in pursuits, by which friendships
are best cemented, and are rendered most permanent. Your natural goodness makes you
magnify my services, which were little, compared with your deserts; and your high-minded
generosity has not only overlooked my defects, but has elevated them into virtues. Any
Intelligence respecting you will always be most acceptable to me; and your health will
always be an object of my prayers. Into whatever regions your travels may lead you, I
supplicate Heaven that they may be happy and prosperous. The absence of friends, whose
worth i- BO great, is to me truly afflicting; but the distress is alleviated, and the privation
Irmmrd, by the recollections which the multiplicity of your learning, and the kindness of
youf manners, have left behind.
Thus much for the present May God bless you with many happy years! Be wise,
and, as the toiling bees, collect the most exquisite sweets, and treasure them up for the
benefit of your country, that the wreath of glory may hereafter be bound around your brow.
Nor ever forget that I am the friend and the servant of your excellency.
JOHN LOGOTHETI.
And I the secretary salute you as my duty requires.