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SOP (according to Planudes, Camerarius and Others) was by birth, of Ammorius a Towne in the Greater Phrygia; (though ome will have him to be a Thracian, others a Samian) of a mean Condition, and in his peron deformed, to the highet degree: Flat-Nos'd Hunch-Back'd, Blobber-Lipp'd; a Long Mis-hapen Head; His Body Crooked all over, Big-Belly'd, Baker-Legg'd, and his Complexion o warthy, that he took his very Name from't; for Æop is the ame with Æthiop. And he was not only Unhappy in the mot candalous Figure of a Man that ever was heard of; but he was in a manner Tongue-Ty'd too, by uch an Impediment in his peech, that People could very hardly undertand what he aid. This Imperfection is aid, to have been the mot enible part of his Misfortune; for the Excellency of his Mind might otherwie have Attoned in ome Meaure, for the Rh