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58, Customs and History of the Ancients. The Poetical Story is generally known, because diverting to be read; especially those that are acquainted with the Metamorphoses and , can be no Strangers to it; and all these together are the Foundation and Reason of all those Heaps of Comments, which are piled so high upon Authors, that it is difﬁcult sometimes to clear the Text from the Rubbish, and draw it out of the Ruins.

If there is any Thing else Commentators concern themselves about, it is Propriety of Expression, or rather some Verbal Niceties, and Grammatical Rh