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Poet; but as I thought this would have appeared too minute and over-curious, I have purposely omitted them. The greater Incidents, however, are not only set off by being shewn in the same Light with several of the same nature in

Homer

, but by that means may be also guarded against the Cavils of the Tasteless or Ignorant.


[Footnote 1:]

In the first book of his Roman Antiquities.

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[Footnote 2:]

Dionysius says that the prophecy was either, as some write, given at Dodous, or, as others say, by a Sybil, and the exclamation was by one of the sons of Æneas, as it is related; or he was some other of his comrades.