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224 cerned to get the ashes of Stesichorus, and the Catanaeans to keep them?" What I, from the Epistles, called a war and sacking of a city, and a dependence upon the most brutal of tyrants, our Honourable Examiner styles 'a concern,' and says not one word about the going to war. But he tells us, this very thing happened afterwards in the case of Euripides, whose bones the Athenians sent a solemn embassy to Macedonia to retrieve, but their request was denied. And is this the very thing, and the same case with that in the Epistles? It's so far from being the very thing, that one can hardly pick out a more proper instance to refute the Epistles. For as the Athenians met with a denial when they demanded Euripides's ashes, and yet declared no war upon that account, nor committed the least hostilities; so likewise the Himeraeans would never go to war upon so slight an occasion, especially against a powerful city, that had the same original with their own, both colonies being founded by the Chalcidians of Euboea. After this he informs us from Pausanias, that the Athenians built a noble monument to Euripides: but neither Pausanias nor Thomas Magister, who are the only authors,