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[pg<br />

xl]<br />

Harefoot, Edmund Ironside, Edward<br />

Longshanks, Edward the Black Prince,<br />

&c. If yet this be thought to account better<br />

for the propriety than for the repetition,<br />

I shall add a further conjecture. Hesiod,<br />

dividing the world into its different<br />

ages, has placed a fourth age, between<br />

the brazen and the iron one, <strong>of</strong> "heroes<br />

distinct from other men; a divine race<br />

who fought at <strong>The</strong>bes and Troy, are<br />

called demi-gods, and live by the care<br />

<strong>of</strong> Jupiter in the islands <strong>of</strong> the blessed."<br />

Now among the divine honours which<br />

were paid them, they might have this also<br />

in common with the gods, not to be mentioned<br />

without the solemnity <strong>of</strong> an epithet,<br />

and such as might be acceptable to<br />

them by celebrating their families, actions<br />

or qualities.<br />

What other cavils have been raised<br />

against <strong>Homer</strong>, are such as hardly deserve<br />

a reply, but will yet be taken notice

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