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, whom it is no undue compliment to entitle the most sufficient Critic on the Grecian Language, closes the text of Hero and Leander with the following observation, 'I have given a place to Musæus immediately after Tryphiodorus, both having been Grammarians, Michael Sophianus formerly declar'd to me in the presence of many others, that he had seen at Genoa an old book containing a Poem, which was call'd "The History of Hero and Leander, by Musæus the Grammarian;" he acquainted me with the name of the person, who had the