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But the original Picture of the other Greeks is Se c t. very different : Far from being able to fit out X. a Fleet, or even to build a single Ship, They neither knew p. t99- (S) Tile-cover d Houses standing in the Sun, Nor Timber-work ; but like the Earth-bred Ant, They lived in sunless Caves dug under Ground. No certain Sign had they of Winter's Cold, Nor of the Jlow'ry Spring, or Summers Store ; But blindly managed all— Eschylus. These are the People whom Virgil characterizes, Astubborn Race, on Mountains living wild.
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i92. (c) 199. (h) PHORONEUS was the first Prince who lhu. (d) was born in this Country, {Peloponnesus) for J- 199. (i)nachus was not a Man, but the River-God who was the Father of Phoroneus. — ' This Phoro' neus, the Son of Inachus, first gathered Man* kind together into a Community, who before ' his Time were scattered up and down, and ' had each of them separate Dwellings ; and ' the Place in which they were first brought to ' live together, was called from him the Pho' ronean Town' Pausanias. No wonder that the Invention of Corn ap peared so divine to such a starving Community, as to entitle its Author to Worship and Divini ty. Lucretius says of Cybele, the Mother of the Gods Con- Rh