Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / by William Wotton.

  • Wotton, William, 1666-1727.
Date:
1697
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Credit: Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / by William Wotton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wr one ot A ee A NEG a Ae tat etme an i s- = ret wen arnrante fe) Bite eflayed ‘to put the Zfopic Fables ints Plitach “Merle, was (ae) Socrates the Philofopher, de Aud, ~ Laertius feems to ‘hint, that ‘he'did bur | ‘one: Fable ; and that with no great fuc. Poet. Laert. Z tag : ; : ‘eefs's ‘the beginning of it -was this’: Socrat. Aiganis mol éAeze Kopivsrov acy visor, \, Mi xpivew aper ld Aaodixg copy. Tis ‘obfervable again, that Socrates does not fay, ‘he made ‘fe of a Book of Fables: but, J wrote, fays he, av tmiseutu, Mole that 1 knew,’ and‘ that I could’ firft© call to mttd. And this Fable too does not appear in’ our prefent Collection’ ; if’ we may gather fo’ much,” from his naming’ ’ ‘the Clorinthtans. team es . Ill. After Socrates's time, (y) Demetris Phalereus made Adywy Kiswetan Sov yuyets, Collections of Afopean Fables : which, pet- haps: were the firtt in’ their kind: ‘com mitted to writing’; I mean, in ‘form of a Book. ': Thefe feent to have‘been it’ Profle’ and* fome, “perhaps; ‘may: imagine, “that _they“are’ the* fame ‘that ave now extant! Fwith: they were's ‘for then: they would have been: well writ, with forme’ Genius and Spirit.” Butt fhall demonftrate Ours to'be-of a Motern’ Date ; ‘and'the Com pofition ‘it felfefpeaks*too lotid> that ips not Demetrius’s, Cy) Laert. tn Demet, IV. After Aly