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PREFACE.
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absolutely necessary to explain or justify the text. Those of the latter description might, perhaps, have been more numerous, if much deference had seemed due to that species of judgment, which, having neither light nor tact of its own, can only see and feel through the medium of authority.

Σοφος ὁ πολλα ειδως φυρε
μαθοντες δε λαβροι
παγγλωσσιᾳ, κορακες ως, ακραντα γαρυετον
Διος προς ορνιχα θεῖον.
Pind. Olymp . II.