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T H O T H.
PROLOGUE.
BY THE CELEBRATED PHILOSOPHER AND PHYSICIAN XENOPHILOS.
Nothing is more difficult than to separate the true from the false in a narrative in which it is necessary for the most part to rely on the testimony of one person only, and that person a woman whose mind had been shaken by extraordinary perils and vicissitudes. A task so laborious I shall not attempt, but shall simply set forth in order what Daphne, the daughter of Philetos, told me in fragments at
