The Hymns of Callimachus: Translated from the Greek Into English Verse, with Explanatory Notes; To Which Are Added, Select Epigrams, and the Goma Berenices of the Same Author, Six Hymns of Orpheus, and the Encomium of Ptolemy by Theocritus

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To this knowledge no book can help us but the Bible, which begins with the beginning of the world and man, and brings down a billory of the true Re ligion infiituted by God, with the deviations and corruptions introduced by Satan, to the times of the Greek: and thus filling up the deficiency, and com learing the chain. By the light afforded us in Scripture we find, that two' of t e abovementioned fources of mythology, diviniov and pbyfier, were ori.

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