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Chios, in the i^gcan Sea, is mentioned by Homer as the place of 

 hisrcfidence; and from the account which Herodotus gives of 

 the auxiliaries of Xerxes, there is every reafon to imagine that 

 fomc of thofe nations from whence that monarch drew affiftance 

 were of Greek cxtradion. That the Grecian language was un- 

 known to Troy in every period of its hiftory cannot be at all 

 conceived ; but that it was common to both countries at the time 

 of the Trojan war, may, from the authority of i5Lfchylus, admit 

 of fome degree of qucftion. The palTage in Agamemnon cannot 

 with much facility be pafled over. But in this I may be miftaken. 

 No fatisfadory reafon, however, in my humble opinion, can be 

 affigned for its infertion, if (as has been already fuggeftcd) iEfchy- 

 lus did not conceive it neceflary to the hiftorical accuracy of his 

 performance ; and that he was eminently qualified to decide with 

 tolerable certainty as to this, and fimilar fubjedts, the whole 

 tenor of his compofitions evidently proves. 



Page 57, Line 14, They exprefs their furprize that a foreigner, £s'<-.] The 

 literal tranflation from the original is — " But I am furprized that you, brought 

 " up beyond the fea, in a city that u/es a different tongue^ Ihould be able, &c." 

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