518 MYCEN^. 
CHAP, not a vestige of Mycente could be found. The 
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inducement towards such inquiries is of no 
common nature: whatever may be discovered 
will relate to the history of a city which ceased 
to be inhabited long before the Macedonian 
conquest, and to the manners of a people 
coeval with Mschylus, with Sophocles, and with 
Euripides. 
