Of 0 XPOlip^S Ht%E. ^i 
of this Effay') concerning the healthy fituation of Oxford^ and its 
feleftion by vS/Wew/J, forthe feat o^ihcMufes\ Notanda^ inquit, 
funttria^ quod Civitas fanaefi in Borea isr in Oriente fiflantata eft 
aferta^ isr in Auftro ^ Occidente fi montofa ; propter furitatem Bo- 
reae, is; Orientis, isr putrefa^ionem Auftri isf Occidentis : ftcut 
Oxonia, qu^per induftriam Philofophorum de Grxch fuerat ordina- 
ta i. e. that a healthy City muft be open to the North and Eaft^ 
and mountanoustothe ^'t?/^//' and ; by reafon of the purity 
of the two former quarters^ in refped of the latter : juftas Oxford 
is feated., which was feleded by the Fhilofophers that came from 
Oreece, 
G 5 . And that according to the rule? of their great Mailer Hip- 
pocrates^ who requires no other, but the very fame fituation for 
a healthy City But about what time it was thefe Fhilofophers 
arrived, though I dare not be too confident, yet in all probabili- 
ty they might be fome of thofe GidecianshxGw^t over by Theodo- 
r/^the Arch-biihop of Canterbury., about the year 668', 
whom 'tis like he placed here to inftruft the Saxon youth ; for we 
find Venerable Bede.^md St. Johnde Beverlaco (alwaies reputed of 
this Vniverfity') to have been Scholars ; and fo Tobioi Bidiop of 
Rochefter^^nd Albinus Abbot ofSt,Auguftins Cant, who are faid to 
have underftood the Greek Tongue as well as their native 
one ^. 
66, Not to mention that Britan was known to the Greeks be- 
fore the arrival of the Romans ; for other wife Polyhiu6 could ne- 
ver have hoped to have defcribed Britan^ or the method there ufed 
in ordering Tin., as we find he defigned, having promifed to 
write, ^ BpsTfocvixMv vTicrwv^^ T»ii t3 ■n^rJi'xi^v ifcf.'mcKdj'ni \ Which 
Book though loft, yttStrabo * bears us witnefs, that therein he 
refuted the Errors of Dic<)carchu^, Pythias 2nd Eratofthenes^ con- 
cerning the magnitude of Britan^ who were a|fo Greek Authors 
(thatit feems had written fomthing concerning this I/Iand^ and 
much ancienter than himfelf. Nor to note fecondly, that the 
French Druids (who had their Learning out of Britan) in things 
of common concern, ufed the Greek Cbara^er ; which how 
« Jnproklematibus Arlflot ficundum /aborem ^lagiJlriWakerBnrleyy ad ord'}nem<iyllphaheti. MS.(i<,. in 
Bib. CoU. B. M- MagdaL Oxon fol. iZ b. ^ Mim'ib r }-vQfivvT')ieAvm t5 lixia , >^ xvxTvx'Hi ^ ^e^v?,-. Hip- 
pocrat Oper. (e£i. 7^. cap. ^luifmvh^Tm, 'vi-mK > Godivinus de Prafulib-Ang.invitaTheodori. ^-Matth. 
Parkier de Antiquitate Ecclef.Britan. in vita Theod. > Polyhii Megal Hiftoriar. lib. 3./). 209 Edit. If. Ca- 
faub. An. 1619. * Strabon. Gcograph. lib. I- pag. 104. Edit. Cafaub. Paris, An, 162.0. pi Cafari' 
Comment, de bello Gallic, lib, 6. 
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