Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-05-09
FLATTERY.
Sentiments.
Nothing misEecomes


The man that would be thought a
friend, like, fiattery,
Flattery, the meanest kind Of base
assembling, .'
And only used to catch the grossest
fools.
Please not thyself the tiatt'ring crowd
to hear;
IT is fulsome stuff. to please the Itch
ing ear.
Survey thy soul. not what thou dost
appear,
But what thou art.
The heart has no avenue so open
as that Of flattery, which, like some
enchantment, lays all its guards
asleep.
He that reviles me Qt may be)
calls me fool; but he that flatters me,
If take no heed, will make me one.
Satisfaction can nowhere be placed
but in a just sense o. our own in
tegrity without regard to the opin-
ions Of others.
Sentiments.
When Ptolemy Euergetes first set
out on his expedition into Syria, his
queen, Bernice, who tenderly loved
him, being apprehensive Of the dam
gers to which he might be exposed in
the war, made a vow to consecrate
her hair, which was her chief orna-
ment, in case he should return safe.
The prince returned not only safe
but was crowned with glory and sue
cess; whereupon Bernice, to discharge
her VOW, Immediately cut off her hair
and dedicated 1t to the gods in the
temple which Ptolemy Philadelphus
had built in honor OF his beloved
Arsione, under the name Of the
Zephryan Venus, on the promontory
Of Zephryan in Cyprus. But this
consecrated hair being lost soon after.
or perhaps contemptuously flung away
by the priests, Ptolemy was much Of
Tended at this accident, and threat
ened to punish the priests for their
neglect. Hereupon Conon Of Samos,
tronomer, to appease the kings wrath
and gain his favor, gave out that the
queens locks had been conveyed up
to heaven and pointed out seven stars
they were the queens hair. Several
other astronomers, either to make
their court as we'll az Conon to the
king, or out Of fear OF drawing upon
themselves his displeasure, affirmed
the same thing, and hence coma
Bernices, or the hair Of Bernice, be-
came one of the consultations and is
so this day.-Hygini Poetic. Astronom.
Cambyses, king Of Persia, having
shot the son Of PraXaspes through the
heart in his fathers presence, asked
him, in an insulting. scoffing manner.
If he had not a steady hand. The
wretched father, who ought not to
have had either voice or life remain:
ing after a stroke like this, was so
mean-spirited as to reply, Apollo
himself could not have shot better"
Seneca, who copied this story from
Herodotus. after having shown his
detestation Of the barbariouS cruelty
Of the prince, condemns still more
the cowardice and monstrous fiattery
Of the father. Sceleratius telum illud
laudatum est, guam missum.-Sen.
de Ira lib. iii. C. IA.
Prusias, king of Bithynia, being
come to Rome to make the senate and
Roman people his compliments Of
congratulation upon the good success
Of the war against Perseus, dishon-
ored the royal dignity by abject fiat
terry. At his reception by the depu-
ties, appointed by the senate for that
purpose, he appeared with his head
shaved, and with the cap, habit,
shoes and stockings Of a slave made
free; and saluting the deputies, You
see," said he, "one Of your freed men,
ready to fulfil whatever you shall
choose to command and to conform
entirely to your customs" When he
entered the senate, he stopped at the
door facing the senators who sat and.
prostrating himself. kissed the thresh-
old; afterwards addressing himself to
the assembly, 81 salute you, gods pre-
serves" cried he, and went on with a
discourse suitable to the prelude.
Polybius says that he was ashamed
to repeat 1t, and we'll he might, for
that base department at last dishon-
ored the senate as much who suffered