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Rh to Juno's Feet, twisted a golden Chain about her Arms, and mounting her aloft, hung her up between the Clouds and the Sky. Then, says the God, (P. 144. (a)/ 150. (f) Into the Fields of Troy the Anvils down I threw; — that Generations yet to come Might ask, and know the Truth.—

"And accordingly they say, that two such Masses of Iron, which a little above the Poet called Anvils, are shewed by the People near Troy."



PLATO, having before mentioned the first Cause ofall things, which he calls, —THE great Eternal Being without Beginning or Generation, and—that which alone was, and is, and is to come; with great Modesty adds,

(145. (b)/ 151. (g)}

"But now, to discourse concerning the inferior Gods, (i. e. all under the Universal Mind) and explain their Generation, is a Subject too great for our Capacity : But in all these things, we must give Credit to those Persons mentioned before, who affirm that they are themselves descended from the Gods, and who, some way or other, perhaps, may have plainly come to the Knowledge of their Progenitors. We cannot therefore refuse our