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... authority from the Greek and Roman writers , who preceded him ; and takes the same li- berty , in making Esop travel into Assyria and Egypt . He has not only abused his person , but represents him more like an idle buffoon , than a man ...
... authority from the Greek and Roman writers , who preceded him ; and takes the same li- berty , in making Esop travel into Assyria and Egypt . He has not only abused his person , but represents him more like an idle buffoon , than a man ...
Page vi
... authority is much the most prevalent for his being born in Phrygia ; and if the account of the proverb ( mentioned p . x . ) be true , that alone would make all other authorities quite unneceffary . ( m ) Suidas . ( n ) Philoftratus ...
... authority is much the most prevalent for his being born in Phrygia ; and if the account of the proverb ( mentioned p . x . ) be true , that alone would make all other authorities quite unneceffary . ( m ) Suidas . ( n ) Philoftratus ...
Page vii
... authority ; which defect he was willing to supply by the strength and beauty of his allegories . His next master after Caresias was ( 9 ) Xan- thus ; and his third , Idmon , ( r ) sirnamed the Wise , of the island of Samos . It was with ...
... authority ; which defect he was willing to supply by the strength and beauty of his allegories . His next master after Caresias was ( 9 ) Xan- thus ; and his third , Idmon , ( r ) sirnamed the Wise , of the island of Samos . It was with ...
Page xii
... authority on other occasions where he represents him as wifer than all the people of Athens taken together . O fi maneret condito fenfus patri Quam graviter ferret , quod voluntatem fuam Interpretari non potuiffent Attici ! Lib . 4. Fab ...
... authority on other occasions where he represents him as wifer than all the people of Athens taken together . O fi maneret condito fenfus patri Quam graviter ferret , quod voluntatem fuam Interpretari non potuiffent Attici ! Lib . 4. Fab ...
Page xvi
... authority from Stobæus , I hould think might be much over - balanced by that of Phi- loftratus , who lived long before Stobæus ; and in his pic- ture of Efop gives him a pleafing countenance , even while he ia meditating . ( w ) See p ...
... authority from Stobæus , I hould think might be much over - balanced by that of Phi- loftratus , who lived long before Stobæus ; and in his pic- ture of Efop gives him a pleafing countenance , even while he ia meditating . ( w ) See p ...
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