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IV. Account of a BOOK. 
.ATK0*P01^02 TOY XAAKfAEa:S AAEHANAPA; 
. Kai Ik dvfo r57ol2AKlOT rS T2TT20T E^HFAMA. 
Lycophronts Chalcidenfis Alexandra , Cum 
Grcecij Ifacii Tzetzis Commentariis. Acce" 
dunt Vcrftones^ Variantes LeSliones^ Emen- 
dat tones ^ Annotationes ^ Indices Necejfarii. 
Cur a ^ opera Johannis Potteri, A. M. ^ 
Collegii Lincolnienfis Socii. Oxonii, e The- 
atre Sheldoniano, An. Dvm. 1 697. 
ITcophron's CaffanJra is the only work that remains 
^ .to us, out of the many Volumes of that Author: 
^Tis a Poem the moft intricate and obfcure of any, that 
has ever appear'd in the Greek, or other Languages ; 
but whofe ufefulnefs does fufliciently compenfate for its 
Obfcurity. The Defign is thus Cajfandra^ the Daugh- 
ter of Triamus Kipg of Troy^ feeing her Brother Taris 
put tp Sea, with an intent to fetch Hdena from Greece^ 
and being before inftruded by Apollo in the Art of Di- 
vination, foretells the manifold Calamities, which that 
Voyage brought upon her Native Country ^ and having 
premised an account of the former taking of TV^'by 
Hercules^^^Q enumerates all the Miferies, which theGr^- 
tians and Trojans underwent during the long Ten Years 
Siege of that City, and at ifie Dcftruftion of it, with 
the various Fortunes that befel them afterwards, and the 
numerous Colonics planted by them in Itdy^ Sicily, and 
other parts of the World. Then having related frcm 
iheitiirft Original the Caufes of. the continual Quarrels - 
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