. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. gines to batter the walls : Mitroruvi tormento Pi/los Messanaqxie tradunt, Large battering engines are frora Pylos sent,And from Messene. But the poet seems to have forgottea the rude and uuskilful ageof this hero, and to have formed his description from the practicesof his own times, since authors of better credit have no mentionof any such thing. Homer indeed speaks
. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. gines to batter the walls : Mitroruvi tormento Pi/los Messanaqxie tradunt, Large battering engines are frora Pylos sent,And from Messene. But the poet seems to have forgottea the rude and uuskilful ageof this hero, and to have formed his description from the practicesof his own times, since authors of better credit have no mentionof any such thing. Homer indeed speaks of K^oa-a-xi, which sonieancient interpreters take for Kxl/^, scaling ladders ^ : 0 (JLil £^. V «??>. I VpUTpa^ePS. 73,.th^r,nr,}hv h\ .:., JiAinhurjh rnhllilnul hy JKuf Smluuf A IHJ^- iii l»nn uar, aml to liavc bccn tiic contrivanrp nf r. „,p,i„ij« scalc .l,c « o( Thcbcs 2^.7 do,v„. a„d slai,. atoncs; and sh,ce lc IJ ^ obvious, i. „,ay not b^ Z^rJ-7t T ^ «cre ., i,.- ho L;Te . J; T ^«Jers wcre aftcwa,ds, vvhenTome of . - /«Wfe^foldcd- ,s J I f 7^°^ ^ere ^,.™;c, for .l,e convcyance of Thc 1 ^ P^^^ VI ar, and .0 have occasion to the fable of ,1,» . J by Epeus, i. being .he ^^^^ tf ZTT wrap up .l,e original of eve,y .,fin f^b cs I^mT .conjccure, and may vvid, .hc same case ^7^ f °^Athensus indeed speaks of ,hi. ^ ^^^^«erf- »ot fix us >^^enuJ:ti:^Z^:i T ^«heRon,a,,s„ereobligedfort o fr ^ °^^-«^ « ;^„our:fitfr.:vi!rre^cr;r^ «he,r s,ege of Gades, and neither Homer .L anv O t° ^-ny ages , has .he leas. Lelnht T
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