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The Book «/TIMÆUS the Locrian, Concerning the Soul of the World, and c/Nature. Upon this Treatise, which Plato is said to have purchased at an immense Price, these Ver ses of Timon the Satyrist are preserved : A little Book with a va/l Sum he bought ; Whence catching, Jly, the Hint, he undertook, To write his farrid Timæus ; and explain How this wide World was made.

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