mete ekousan, e ou para ge eidoton skopountes; di auto de
monon touta, hoti akroasin hedeian echei, kai thaumasten. Radios d' an tis
Hesiodoi kai Homeroi pisteuseien Heroologousi, kai tois tragikois Poietais,
e Ktesiai te kai Herodotoi, kai Hellanikoi, kai allois toioutois. Oude tois
peri Alexandrou de sungrapsasin rhadion pisteuein tois pollois; kai gar
houto rhadiourgousi dia te ten doxan Alexandrou, kai dia to ten strateian
pros tas eschatias gegonenai tes Asias porro aph' hemon; to de porro
duselenkton.] Strabo. l. 11. p. 774.

Graecis Historicis plerumque poeticae similem esse licentiam. Quinctilianus.
l. 11. c. 11.

--quicquid Graecia mendax
Audet in Historia. Juvenal.

Strabo of the antient Grecian historians: [Greek: Dei de ton palaion
historion akouein houtos, hos me homologoumenon sphodra. hoi gar neoteroi
pollakis nomizousi kai t' anantia legein.] l. 8. p. 545.

[Greek: Pantes men gar hoi peri Alexandron to thaumaston anti t' alethous
apodechontai mallon.] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1022.

[541] [Greek: --Alla hekastos hekastoi t' anantia legei pollakis; hopou de
peri ton horasthenton houto diapherontai, ti dei nomizein peri ton ex
akoes.] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1006.

See also l. 771, 2, 3, 4. And Diodorus Siculus. l. 1. p. 63. Of Herodotus
and other writers--[Greek: Hekousios prokrinantes tes aletheis to
paradoxologein.]

[542] [Greek: Ou thaumaston d' einai peri tou Homeroi; kai gar tous eti
neoterous ekeinou polla agnoein, kai teratologein.] Strabo. l. 7. p. 458.

[543] [Greek: Phemi oun Orphea kai Homeron kai Hesiodon einai tous onomata
kai genne dontas tois hup' auton legomenois theois; marturei de kai
Herodotos--Hesiodon gar kai Homeron helikien tetrakosiois etesi dokeo
presbuterous emou genesthai, kai ou pleiosi. Houtoi de eisin, hoi
poiesantes theogonian Hellesi, kai toisi theoisi tas eponumias dontes, kai
timas kai technas dielontes, kai eidea auton semainontes; hai de eikones
mechri mepo plastike kai graphike, kai andriantopoietike esan, oude
enomizonto.] Athenagorae Legatio. p. 292. See Herodotus. l. 2. c. 53.

[544] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 809. Clemens mentions [Greek: Aguiea thuroros
toi Herme.] Cohort. p. 44.

[Greek: Osa men adousin en toi Prutaneioi, phone men estin auton he
Dorike.] Pausanias. l. 5. p. 416.

[545] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 828. of Phaennis and the Sibyls.

[546] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 809. of Phaemonoe and antient hymns.

[547] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 809, 810. [Greek: Olen]