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His Knowledge this way will bear the ftricteft Scrutiny 5 and as we are apt to fct a high value upon thofe Accounts of Men and Countries, that are given by People perfon- aily acquainted with them, it will be worth while and Writings 0/ Homer. 2S7 V/hile to enquire narrowly into the Poet's Abilities, by dipping a little into his Subjed. T R I A M's Kingdom, according to Ho- mer y extended from the River £ s e p u s, the Border of the Cyzicentan Territory, all along the Coaft of the Tropontis an...d Hellefpont^ until you come to the L e c t i a n Promon- tory, over againft Lesbtis-, in the Egean Sea* This we learn from Achilles own Mouth, who had ravaged the greateft part of it. When the unhappy ^riam came to him to beg the Body of his flaughtered Son, the fierce Greek began to relent, and thinking upon the Reverfe of Fortune of the aged Prince, he fays to him : Before thefe days^ old Kingy we hear thou, ruledft O'er 7nany Provinces in profperous State, From Lesbus upwards^ Macar'j- fertile Seat, All between Phrygia and the Hellefpont.
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