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We pass all these ftories , together with the little Iliad of Siagrus , mentioned by ' Elian . But one cannot leave this fubject without reflecting on the depreciating humour , and odd industry of man , which fhews itself in raising ...
We pass all these ftories , together with the little Iliad of Siagrus , mentioned by ' Elian . But one cannot leave this fubject without reflecting on the depreciating humour , and odd industry of man , which fhews itself in raising ...
Page xci
That Homer was born at Smyrna , is endeavoured to be proved by an Epigram , recorded to have been under the Statue of Pififtratus at Athens ; by the reports mentioned in Cicero , Strabo and A. Gellius ; and by the Greek lives , which ...
That Homer was born at Smyrna , is endeavoured to be proved by an Epigram , recorded to have been under the Statue of Pififtratus at Athens ; by the reports mentioned in Cicero , Strabo and A. Gellius ; and by the Greek lives , which ...
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But the argument which appears most irrefragable , is to be taken from his catalogue of ships : he has there given us an exact Geography of Greece , where its cities , mountains , and plains , are particularly mentioned , where the ...
But the argument which appears most irrefragable , is to be taken from his catalogue of ships : he has there given us an exact Geography of Greece , where its cities , mountains , and plains , are particularly mentioned , where the ...
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