Sir John Newton, Kt.==
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Henry Newton of 2 John Newton Frances, wife
Hanham, Somersetshire. of Frusto. of William
Lord Cobham.
Lancastriensis.
ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING.
In Vol. ii., p. 286., an allusion is made by a correspondent to the following verses of the comic poet Crobylus, in reference to the antiquity of smoking:
Α. "Ἐγὼ δὲ πρὸς τὰ θερμὰ ταῦθ' ὑπερβολῇ
Τοὺς δακτύλους δήπουθεν ἰδαίους ἔχω,
Καὶ τὸν λάρυγγ' ἥδιστα πυριῶ τεμαχίοις.
Β. "Κάμινος, οὺκ ἄνθρωπος."
Athen I. p. 5. F.