A history of the heathen mythology; or, The fables of the ancients elucidated from historical records. An important key to the classics. To which is added, an enquiry into the religion of the first inhabitants of Great Britain. And a particular account of the ancient Druids (1806)
Tressan, M. l'abbé de, 1749-1809, North, H., tr · London, Printed for B. Crosby and Co. · leaf 451
the fide of their tomb. They were firft honoured as heroes; but theGreeks afterwards admitted them to the rank oftheir fuperior divinities, and the Romans, whoconftantly imitated the Greeks, honoured them inthe fame character. They were thought frequentlyto appear to men, and were generally… … Birrel sc. iiistokY of orpheus* 4i9 HISTORY OF ORPHEUS, Some learned men, from a paflage whichwe meet with in Cicero, have called the exiftenceof Orpheus in queftion but this opinion cannotdifcredit that of all antiquity, and of the gravefthiftorians. In every account of the Argonauticexpedition,…
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