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had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew near
places consecrated by the presence of gods and great men. See Cicero
de Legg II I, sub init., where he speaks of the plane tree under
which Socrates used to walk and of the tree at Delos, where Latona
gave birth to Apollo. This passage is referred to by Stephanus of
Byzantium, s. v. N. T. p. 490, ed. de Pinedo. I omit quoting any
of the dull epigrams ascribed to Homer for, as Mr. Justice Talfourd
rightly observes, "The authenticity of these fragments depends upon
that of the pseudo Herodotean Life of Homer, from which they are
taken." Lit of Greece, pp. 38 in Encycl. Metrop. Cf. Coleridge,
Classic Poets, p. 317.
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It is quoted as the work of Cleobulus, by Diogenes Laert. Vit.
Cleob. p. 62, ed. Casaub.
I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the
Greek leschai.
Os ei tous, Homerous doxei trephein autois, omilon pollon te kai
achreoin exousin. enteuthen de kai tounoma Homeros epekrataese to
Melaesigenei apo taes symphoraes oi gar Kumaioi tous tuphlous
Homerous legousin. Vit. Hom. l. c. p. 311. The etymology has been
condemned by recent scholars. See Welcker, Epische Cyclus, p. 127,
and Mackenzie's note, p. xiv.
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Thestorides, thnetoisin anoiston poleon per, ouden aphrastoteron
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