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A DISSERTATION on a PASSAGE in the SIXTH ILIAD of 
HOMER. By the Rev. EDWARD LEDWICH, L2Z.8. 
M.R. I. A. and F. S. A. of London and Scotland. 
Betveroruon, rejecting the amorous defigns of Anteia, Read Odober 
wife of Pretus king of Argos, immediately became the object of “9? *79 
her moft furious refentment: fhe infifted on his death, but Pre- 
~ tus, refpecting the laws of hofpitality, declined perpetrating the 
deed, committing the execution of it to Jobates, king of Lycia, 
to whom Pretus fent Bellerophon with letters expreflive of his 
wifhes. 
* These de pew Avxinvde, Tropey d ore onmara Avypo 
Ppatvas ev srivecxs WTULTO, OuuoPope worre. 
From thefe lines, from the opinion of Greek Scholiafts and 
fome expreflions in -+ Jofephus, it has been afferted, that the art 
of writing was unknown, not only at the time of the Trojan war 
but in the age of Homer. A learned ¢ compatriot has laboured 
Gara thefe 
* Homer, Iliad 6, + Contra-Apion, lib. 1, { Wood on Homer, ps 213—214. 
