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vocations were ufually united, thev were notwithftanding fomc- 

 times feparated even in the earlieft times, and long before their 

 formal feparation at the re-eftablifhment of the Pythian games 

 in the year before Chrifl 590. Paufanias, in the paflage al- 

 luded to, has thefe words— "Etti; Ss 'o\?i Ai>,ipif,:.dpov Awe, ouje 

 Toujov yivo^Evog hcflepcu, e7roir,(rxr '/, Koi 7roi'/j9sv]x Ig rcug tTreiTo. ovk riXde — 

 But neither Linus, the /on of Amphimarns, nor the latter, who lived 

 afterwards, made verfes ; or, if they made any, none of them have 

 come down to after ages. And this is the conclufion of the 

 fame paragraph, where the interpretation of Homer's verfes 

 fuppofed to refpedl Linus is given. Indeed in this very chap- 

 ter, not many lines before, the vocation of Linus as a mufi- 

 cian, who had acquired his fame by his flcill in that fcience, 

 is exprefsly pointed out — ^syigriv J'e tZv tp ecuujov, kxi 'icrot Trpojepoti 

 tyevcvlo, xd^oi So^oiv ctt) Moi)<r;x^ — Boeotica, Cap. xix. page y66. 



Hence it appears that Herodotus, where he mentions the 

 lamentation for Linus as fung by the Egyptians, and Paufanias 

 alfo, fpeak of him as a muficlan, and not as a poet ; and con- 

 fequently that neither Herodotus contradidls himfelf, nor does 

 the teftimony of Homer, fuppofing the interpretation of Pau- 

 fanias to be the true one, in any degree combat the opinion 

 of Herodotus that there were no poets among the Greeks more 

 ancient than Homer. That Linus may in efFe(5l have poffefled 

 this difputed priority is a prefumption fupported by many 

 ftrong circumftances ; but neither Homer, nor Herodotus in 

 contradi(5tion to himfelf, nor Paufanias, can be brought to 

 prove it. 



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