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4. "Should it not be, since my arrival?<br />

asks Mackenzie, observing<br />

that "poplars can<br />

hardly live so long". But setting<br />

aside the fact that we must<br />

not expect consistency in a<br />

mere romance, the ancients<br />

had a superstitious belief in the<br />

great age <strong>of</strong> trees which grew<br />

near places consecrated by the<br />

presence <strong>of</strong> gods and great<br />

men. See Cicero de Legg II I,<br />

sub init., where he speaks <strong>of</strong><br />

the plane tree under which Socrates<br />

used to walk and <strong>of</strong> the<br />

tree at Delos, where Latona<br />

gave birth to Apollo. This passage<br />

is referred to by<br />

Stephanus <strong>of</strong> Byzantium, s. v.<br />

N. T. p. 490, ed. de Pinedo. I<br />

omit quoting any <strong>of</strong> the dull<br />

epigrams ascribed to <strong>Homer</strong><br />

for, as Mr. Justice Talfourd

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