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Enquiry into the Life

was held in great Eftecmamong his Countrymen,

AI^ A A' OIROS

My Hoiife

C0HAAETO, &c.

foonadvani andafterirard I Re'verence had and A'jje among the Cretans. "ii^ds

-,

And

hcn U/yJfes, in his turn, comes to enquire into the Fortunes of Etimaus, he choofes this Suppofition, as the moil natural he could

make



Btit come,

and

tell

me truly 'ujkat I ask ;

Whether the fpacious To-wn ^-juaspilhged^ In which thy Father, and thy Mother livd? Or whether Men came unaware-: upon tbee^ Leftfingle with the Oxen, or the Sheep, jind dragging thee aboard, failed over hither

To

this

Mans

^

TTwelling ?

Thefe being the Manners of the Times, we need not wonder at Homer's reorefenting the good NeJior^'dS entertaining Telemadms and his Company very honourably in hl<^ Houfe, and after the RepaO:, asking them. Whether they were Merchants H MA^IAIQX AAAAHSBE,

OIA TE

AHaTHPE2

?

——Or doyou rove uncertainy As

beiiig

Robbers ?

Nor was Homers own Country behind-hand We learn from reft of the Greeks,

with the

Hero* 8 'O^wOT.

er. of