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230 gentum. All this is plainly affirmed in the letters. Now if Astypalaea was not a town of Crete, but an island of the Sporades, as I have proved already against Phalaris's Editors; then, if she was poisoned at Astypalaea, she could not afterwards be alive in Crete. And if she was poisoned for endeavoring to follow her husband, which cannot reasonably be supposed to be very long after his flight, she could not be yet alive, when he was grown old in Sicily. I must confess, that these two accounts are still in my opinion inconsistencies. But Mr B. and I may have very different notions of what deserves to be called by that name. For his Examination flatly contradicts his own index to Phalaris; and his margin, in more places than one, is directly opposite to his text; and yet he seems not to apprehend them to be inconsistent one with another: for he has made no retraction of his index to Phalaris; and has made his margin keep company with his text, as if they were very good friends.

My other exception against the Epistles was the Sophist's absurd conduct about Nicocles's address to Phalaris to obtain by his intercession a copy of verses from Stesichorus. But the Examiner protests, he can