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Philological Effay 



Concerning the 



SATYRS 



OF T H E 



ANCIENTS 



Of theS ATYKS of the Ancients. 



•^ZJ L P 11^ 5 and BontJm indeed think the Ormg-Otitmg to 

 be the Satyr of the Ancients 5 but if we enquire into their 

 Hiftory, and examine what Opinion the Ancients had con- 

 cerning them, we (hall find it no lefs involved in Fables, 

 than that of the Pygtfiks , and upon this account feveral of 

 our Learned Men of late, have wholly denied them, and look upon all 

 the Stories concerning them to be only a Fiction of the Poets- and Pain- 

 ters, and that there were never any fuch Beings in Nature. The Learned 

 (<?)Gz/^«W is clearly of this Mind, <^?«V^«i3 £i?e Satyrk kgimus (faith 

 he ) ex Poetarum Pi^oriimque fingendi Licentia Originem dticere. Nihil 

 hujm r ever a in Reruf^i-NatHra exijiere. So ( ^ ) Ifaac Vojjius fpeaking of 

 th^ JEgi panes ttWs MS, Sane neque in forma huj us monfiri conveniitnt,fi ta- 

 men monflris accenfenda fnnt ea , qua funt mera Gneculorttm Comment a. 

 And the Learned (c) Bochartus. faith, Ahfit interim ut ex hk lock ^tifqmm 

 colli gat, itllos aut jam exflare, vel unqitam extitijjh in Rernm 'Natnra Saty- 

 r^j.However,! do not doubt but to make it plainly appear, that there were 



(a) CafuHbon de Poefi Satyrica,]\h.l. C3ip. 2. (b) Jfyojfi) Comment.ad Pompon. MelamMh.l.cS.p.m. 46^ 

 (c) Eocharti Hkrozok. feu de Animal. Sttcrx. Scripture, part, port, lib, 6, cap. 7. p. 829. 



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