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... It was reported that Lycurgus went to Chios for an interview with him . And even Plutarch , when he fays , Lycurgus received Homer's works from the grandfon of that Creophilus with whom he had lived , does not put him so ...
... It was reported that Lycurgus went to Chios for an interview with him . And even Plutarch , when he fays , Lycurgus received Homer's works from the grandfon of that Creophilus with whom he had lived , does not put him so ...
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There is a prophecy of the Sibyls that he fhould be born at Salamis in Cyprus ; and then to play an argument of the fame nature against it , there is the oracle given to Adrian afterwards , that fays he was born in Ithaca .
There is a prophecy of the Sibyls that he fhould be born at Salamis in Cyprus ; and then to play an argument of the fame nature against it , there is the oracle given to Adrian afterwards , that fays he was born in Ithaca .
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Strabo , l . ix . fays that fome thought this the name of a town , others that Homer meant by it this part of Theffaly in general ( which laft feems most probable ) . Steph . Byzant . obferves , there was a city Argos in Thessaly ...
Strabo , l . ix . fays that fome thought this the name of a town , others that Homer meant by it this part of Theffaly in general ( which laft feems most probable ) . Steph . Byzant . obferves , there was a city Argos in Thessaly ...
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| Title | The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1 The Iliad of Homer, Alexander Pope |
| Author | Homer |
| Translated by | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | Charles Rivington, 1760 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 25, 2006 |
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