An
18
Enquiry into the Life
was held in great Eftecmamong his Countrymen,
AI^ A A' OIROS
My Hoiife
C0HAAETO, &c.
foonadvani andafterirard I Re'verence had and A'jje among the Cretans. "ii^ds
-,
And
hcn U/yJfes, in his turn, comes to enquire into the Fortunes of Etimaus, he choofes this Suppofition, as the moil natural he could
make
Btit come,
and
tell
me truly 'ujkat I ask ;
Whether the fpacious To-wn ^-juaspilhged^ In which thy Father, and thy Mother livd? Or whether Men came unaware-: upon tbee^ Leftfingle with the Oxen, or the Sheep, jind dragging thee aboard, failed over hither
To
this
Mans
^
TTwelling ?
Thefe being the Manners of the Times, we need not wonder at Homer's reorefenting the good NeJior^'dS entertaining Telemadms and his Company very honourably in hl<^ Houfe, and after the RepaO:, asking them. Whether they were Merchants H MA^IAIQX AAAAHSBE,
OIA TE
AHaTHPE2
?
——Or doyou rove uncertainy As
beiiig
Robbers ?
Nor was Homers own Country behind-hand We learn from reft of the Greeks,
with the
Hero* 8 'O^wOT.
er.
