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Wh e n Ulvffes appeared to the Wooers who had taken Possession of his House, as a poor reduced old Man, the most probable Account he could give of his Poverty was, That he had gone a privateering to Egypt, the Place of the greatest Wealth and Resort then in the World, where he was taken and sold for a Slave. As the Ancients used abundance of Freedom with their Gods, he lays all his Misfortunes at the Door of Jupiter, P- '36- 0) Who, with a wandering Crew of lawless Rovers, 143- 1°) Drove me to Egypt, a long dreary Road. And when one of the haughty young Men ( Antinous ) is offended with him, the first Threat that offers, is to bid him be quiet, ir-(m) Lest Cyprusyoo/z yousee, or bitte r Egypt. 143. (p) HOMER has put into the Mouth of his Hero a noble Description of the Metropolis of this Country, the famous Thebes. This Piece of Knowledge Achilles might have learned from the wise Chiront the celebrated Master of the early Rh