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fidered as giving us a faithful pidure of Grecian manners; and 

 we find him fpeaking of the expofure of a new-born infant, as 

 a meafure of prudence — a laudable arrangement of domeftic 

 cEconomy : 



" Audirc eft operas pretium eorum audaciam, 

 " Nam inceptio eft amentium — haud amantium, 

 " Qiiidquid peperiffet decreverunt toUere. 



Andria. 



" So. Meminiftin' me efle gravidam, & mihi te maxumopere 



" dicere, 



" Si puellam parerem, nolle tolli ? Chr. Scio quid feceris; 



" Suftulifti." 



Heautontimorumenos. 



Having, thus, eftabliflied the fad, of an exifting ferocity in 

 the charader of the Greeks, let me, in the next place, endeavour 

 to point out, briefly, whence this difpofition arofe. We fhall 

 readily trace its origin ; if we confider the manner, in which Greece 

 was originally peopled, by the fuccefllve irruptions of migrating 

 hordes. In very early times many different people, of whom 

 the Greek writers, in the moft enlightened ages, could give no 

 fatisfadory account, over-ran Greece ; fometimes mixing with the 

 antient inhabitants, fometimes expelling them. Of the expelled, 

 fome wandered in queft of unoccupied vales, or, in their turn, 

 drove out the inhabitants of the firft country, that lay expofed 

 to them, if they proved weaker than themfelves. Others retired 

 to the neighbouring mountains, and thence, harrafling the in- 



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