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Rh the same Greek Word had not always been rendered in the same manner, at least, when the Propriety of our Language will at all permit it, every new Expression would have been apt to raise a new idea. The Reader, I hope, will pardon, if not approve, the Uncouthness, in many Places, of a Translation pretty strictly literal: as it seemed necessary, upon the whole, to preserve the original Spirit, the peculiar Turn and characteristic Roughness of the Author. For else, taking greater Liberties would have spared me no small Pains.

I have been much indebted to Mr. Upton's Edition: by which, many Passages, unintelligible before, are cleared up. His Emendations have often assisted me in the Text; and his References furnished me with Materials for the Historical Notes.