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tnitli with falsehood, he says, that he probably bor- 

 rowed T«? fjio»oj4,arB<; nvuXuirxu ftoin the history Of 

 the Arimaspians. An observation also which I 

 heard at the time I was writing this note, strongly 

 influenced my opinion : 1 then mentioned the sub- 

 ject of it in company with some friendsof mine, very 

 much versed in all classical learning ; among whom, 

 a person now no more, whose words in public and 

 private had such weight, that the slightest of them 

 are recollected, said, he was persuaded that Poly- 

 phemus never had more than one eye ; for if he 

 had ever had two, Homer would not have omitted 

 telling us how he had lost one of them. This 

 remark, though slightly thrown out^ struck me as 

 containing great justness of observation, and great 

 knowledge of Homer's character. 



But though Homer is silent as to the form and 

 position of the eye, both these circumstances, as 

 likewise the etymology of the name, Cyclops, are 

 mentioned with remarkable exactness in the Theo- 

 gony ; a poem ascribed to Hesiod, but which, I 

 believe, is generally thought to be posterior both 

 to him and Homer. 



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Euripides, who has written a whole play on the 

 Bubject of the Cyclops, says nothing of the form of 

 the eye, and very slightly alludes to its position; 

 with regard to the latter, Ovid has in two passages 

 followed. Hesiod very exactly. 



