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'126 THE HISTORYIX, To return whence I digress'd, having thushappily discoverd and asserted the connti-y ofAbaris, and also his profession of a Druid; I shallgive here some account of his person, referring toanother place tlie history of his adventures.orator Himerius, tho' one of those,Thewho, from theequivocal sense of the word Hyperborean, seemsto have mistaken him for a Scythian; yet accuratelydescribes his person, and gives him a verynoble character.much facility and elegance, willThat he spoke Greec with sobe no matter ofwonder to such as consider the antient intercourse,which we have already prov'd between the Greecsand the Hyperboreans: nor w^ou*d the latter, tobe sure, send any ambassador (aswell see presentlythey did Abaris) to the former, unless,among the other requisite qualitlcations, he perfectlyunderstood their language. But let's barkena while to Himerius. *' They relate," says he," that Abaris the sage was by nation a Hyperborean,become a Grecian in speech, and resemblinga Scythian in his habit and appearance. Wheneverhe mov'd his tongue, you wou'd imagine himto be some one out of the midst of the academyor very lyceum*. Now that his habit was notthat of a Scythian ever covered with skins,but2*t/0>:v fASv a^pi ^oXii; ^e aai a-^t)fxciroi» Et Je ttok yXairlav KivnasiSf rovrt tusivov IKi% fxtTt)/; Aua^nfAicti; nai avTov ^vntiov vou,i^i(j-dai, Ex Oratioite ad Urstcium apudPhotium in aiblioth. cod, M3, edit, Rothvmi^. pa^. 11 33.