PREFACE. 



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HiQUO nc creditc, Teucri." Fastidious 

 critics will, perhaps, deem the above quota- 

 tion too remote to be applied to the subject 

 of the present Treatise. Admitting, how- 

 ever, that it was a wooden horse of which 

 the Trojans were bidden to beware, still 

 there are many, in these later times, who 

 have had the misfortune to purchase zcooden 

 horses, and who have had ample cause to 

 lament the want of a prophetic admonition 

 against receiving them, not into the capital, 

 but to a place of infinitely more importance 

 to some of our modern Trojans, the stable. 



Virgil, it is true, has not specified whether 

 the Grecian horse was nick'd or cropt, or 

 whether he was figgd in the present scien- 

 tific manner, at the time he was exhibited 

 before the walls of Troy. To our classical 



