s of his master: he held
that knowledge was the chief good. Some of the treatises of
Cleanthes were written expressly to confute him.

118 Anacharsis was (Herod, iv. 76) son of Gnurus and brother of Saulius,
king of Thrace. He came to Athens while Solon was occupied in
framing laws for his people; and by the simplicity of his way of
living, and his acute observations on the manners of the Greeks, he
excited such general admiration, that he was reckoned by some
writers among the seven wise men of Greece.

119 This was Appius Claudius Caecus, who was censor B.C. 310, and who,
according to Livy, was afflicted with blindness by the gods for
persuading the Potitii to instruct the public servants in the way of
sacrificing to Hercules. He it was who made the Via Appia.

120 The fact of Homer's blindness rests on a passage in the Hymn to
Apollo, quoted by Thucydides as a genuine work of Homer, and which
is thus spoken of by one of the most accomplished scholars that this
country or this age has ever produced:--"They are indeed beautiful
verses, and if none worse had ever been attributed to Homer, the
Prince of Poets would have had little reason to complain.

"He has been describing the Delian festival in honour of Apollo and
Diana, and concludes this part of the poem with an address to the
women of that island, to whom it is to be supposed that he had
become familiarly known by his frequent recitations:

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