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 * Elegies and Iambics, sneering at the things VII.
 * they have said concerning the Gods.'





Among the oldest Pieces of Poetry in the World were the solemn Hymns, sung at the high Festivals in the ancient Temples. Delos was one of the earliest religious Settlements in Greece: The Hymns sung there were not composed by any native Greek, but by one Olsn& Foreigner, p. p2 (m) ' This Olen, says Herodotus, coming from Ly93. (o) ' at Delos.' And to the fame purpose Paulanias speaks of " Olen the Lycian, as the Man Aid- (n) " Greece? The Statue of Apollo in this Temple was very ancient, and had some peculiar Emblems. Plutarch upon the Authority of Anticles and Jstrus, two old Historians, relates that it had a Bow in one Hand, and with the other sup ported the three Graces, who held each art In strument of Music, one a Lyre, another a Flute, and the third a Syrinx or Pipe ; as to the Anti quity of it, continues the same Author,—* This Aid. 1 Statue is so old, that the Makers of it are said Aid. Plutarch of Mu s 1 c.
 * cia composed the oldest Hymns that are sung
 * ' who composed the most ancient Hymns in 23. (1)
 * to be of that Generation of Men, who were
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