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tribute xo in actuantage of ste republic o letters in vas os opinion, that an iacomparaiae reasum is Con- ted in these Grecia epochas, vilicia nolint give adlea an consistent account of the ades o sotne important transactions in me histori times, butis ossierasso, in the fabulous a, heroic ages; vhil ine describe every niena able occurrencessor 8ψ years besere

Severes circumstances in iliis narrative are porct of observatim.

I. There is sontestin ver singula and unusual in die concludi Peixesic, o the os of this inscription, after he had purcha Lit for a considerable sum. His

agent, it seenis, vas coninaitte iri prison, and the mar-

Ne avere dis ecta, brohen, separateri and thrown about in confussion It Mould have been natura sor an ordinar Virtuoso, ullo laad received informationi such a CURIOSI TY, toliave exerte est his activit an interest, in orde to procure it But Petresse, a ructi an indesitigabie collector ' , a philosopher, and an eminent patron o learn-

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much, as eirest ad pald besore me owners orie Vendere receivediso pieces for ne ni Ues. Titis, Iapprehend was an traordinar acquisition amplfiussicient sor in gratification os the minor indiae stone- Culter, especiali at Smyrna, in iste viae par o stela coitury It was certaini assovaerfulis motive, in conjundi ion visa thers, mich e do not know, asinose ivllicli ad ualed ister Annius of Viterbo, o any of his bressiren, in the tabricrationis inscriptions. 3. The sum, inita was at for ines mames, rarasmuch greater, stan that a uriter a Paros, 26 years

fore sti lare o Christ, could possibi ex in arulas tas, aes sar a profit alano is conceriteri a sussicient

anfrater

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faineri in ore tava piarchased sor M. Petrest. IV are informed thai aster Samson uras imprisone hine macties rere brolcen, separate i alui inro An Aout promiscuoussy at Smyreia This avd lassicienti account so thei mutilation. But se con sy, sonae occasiona lacunae might have been aristili contriveis', γ' concia filis assertions and chronologaea error and atri re sinae time, to give me

opera detriaticatos, ut adiciu inessent ANTIQUITATI sv EsTIGIA, obrui praeCepit. V It is peli known stat a true antiquar values a fragment, as nuch as a perfectiimeri and his gusto is per

iam more stimulate by the de os, hiat is tost, inangratified by the part whicli is preserved. - se stor of me Sibs 'inlio appeare to Tarquin, ine

persisted

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persisted in dentali lingis iniich formes streri a stehad done for the whiae collection. The old vomae forane a prope notionis hinnan ture Tarquin's CURIOsITY unis immediates e cited indie fragmenta per purchased a in inceste demandeL .

A. Gest. l. i. s. Dion Halic. l. iv. c. g. p. ass. Plin. l. sit. 13. Serv. n. i. 72. Varro an Lactantius repore tiastom a Tampunius Priscus. Fram. p. 3s in. l. i. c. 6.

CAE A P.

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austenticit os a book entilled, Scotorum Antiquitates, inrit,ed by Hector Boethius to ne veremutulus, a Spiniata , inauces in folio vin reniarich rhicli are

lo missi book urvis ine nantes of ancient iustors. . . For, out strat time, men began to in inquisitive into inatters of a latue, and theres e sonae, clio hiamore learning an bene inventions ista iners, set stemselvecto rori to a sy the curiosin of thiae, imo longed is se semethingis in antiquities of theis ova colint . An such tangs ere so ageri an limpliciti received by les judiciolis persons, stat it provia no eas matre to convince them of the impostiire '.' The ce rate Dr. Benile inaes the ollowingobservation to the fame effin. V o sorge Mid countersei boolis, and facter stemuponareat naines, has been a prinice almost Milyas letters But it was then ino os in in fastion, Mim

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. Galen in Hippoc de Natura IIonunis, sin si P. 17. edit. Basil. Allocutio, se a Giscis θοποιια dicitur, est ianitatio sin monis ad mores et suppositas personas acconii nodata : ut, qui rus veri is uti potuisset Andromache, Hectore mortuo. Priscian. Se ine Enispoeiae of Severiis the sophist, at the endos aue Rhetores selem,

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tus and the fame uiriber of ansvvers, wissi a preface, by illari dares, to king Mithridates Us cousin. Epistolae, quas nobis reliquit nescio iis Britti notitine, oinine Phalaridis, nomine Senoem et Pauli, quid aliud censeri possunt, quam DECLAMATIUNCULAE I-Ε1ami Ep. l. i. Fabric Biles Graec. l. n. c. o. Vol. i. P. I ai Bent. Differt upon Phal. p. 6 edit. 777. Jamb. de Myst sistet viii. c. x.-Julius Firmicus also ascribes sto,oo volitia es o Herines Mercurius AEgyptius conscripserat

viginti militia voluminum de variis nil staintusis principiis, αγ- testatum ordinibus coelestium. Mathes i. n.

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There are many volumes no v extari ululer his mine;

but notisne of them is genuine. Tviro of ste nostconsiderable ine cemaiuler, and the dialogue enti ted Asclepius, are metaphlysices apsodies, coii ning arniasse of Christian, latonic, and gratia doctrines, visout eister tinei consistency and appear o have been tritie since in cominencenient of Christianiis . Tvvent o stiire inmisin books, produced by one author The ver idea hocli si est human credibilin ;and is ver suci a number reatly exis et , ii serienam os Hermes, ve ina fairi conclude, stat egreatest par of inem teres Neries '.

The two book of Egyptia hieroglyphics -ic areascribe to Horiis Apollo, o Horapollo, and istis to have been translate Lout of the Egyptian langinge into Greelcha one Philippus, are the spurious production o sonte Greeles sinist. An epic poeni, calle in Argonautics, gh -six

Casauhis calis the Poeniander, sentichristiani meriam figmentum, and ives sitfficient reasons for his opinion Exercit in Baron. Annal. nurn. g. p. ss. Stillino Orig. Sacrae, b. n. c. a.

Asclepius is in the sanae Fle, an seenis to ἐκ luctionis Patricius assigns Bine vel prist ableaeasons for in ascriptiones ali these books tomerines.-Quod fuerit, sayclae, in more antiquissimoriani hominum, ut si cui libro auctoritatem accedere cuperent, vel Des alic jus, ut optii ercurii, vel hominis alicujus insignis, nomine ornarent, neverentia scilicet quadam vel tirunquod vendibiliorem eo nomine sperarent forea vel quod foetui pira prio, alieni nominis quam sui insignibus, gratiam majorem consequi sperarent ac immortalitatem Vel postremo, quod revera Mithor libri imoraretur, viderenturque in eo contenta domata non nisiniami viri esse avi etiam negligentia quadam, ac nulla librorum expensione, sic us eos Viri celebris nomine insigniveriant. Patric.

Discuss. Peripat toni. i. l. 3. p. 9. Vix Galen de Simpl. -- dic. Facul. l. i.

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hymns, and ther pieces, ast unde the nain a Gpheus, e et rated Thracian who sive a me timἡbs in Argonautic expedition . ut clae are evidenti supposititious. As ste ancients have vi us, that Orpheiis could inalce pile beasts, rees, ochs, indri versitan to his music, it is no tonder, mali certain poets in later ages assumed his charadiectam sent steir productipns into me vorla unde his auspices. His 1 ante Wa an incomparabie passipori and recommensi lion to th ivritinos o obscure bariis Aristocle L serie 1 that o such poei as Orpheus ver existed: M Orpheum poetani docet Aristoteles nunquam fuisse f. Cicero seenas to agree vitii Aristolle; and offu8,11uetius, and omers, maintain e fame .pinibit. Biit, victout callin his existende in question, Nema be fuit assured that non of his torks areiso

Veninerations besere the Trooan war. V ut vh mali pretendio asteriain die age of a poet wlio is sal to aves en me sonis oli and Calliope, and o have gone dosvn to the region a Plutoto fete his Wifes Saxius places hii lassaearches Christ.' Cic. de Nat Deor. l. i. pio'. r Puto enim, triumviros iitos poeseos, Orphea Musteum, Linum, non fuisse; sed esse nomina ab antiqua Phoenicum lingua,