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THE

APOPHTHEGMS

OF THE

ANCIENTS:

BEING AN

HISTORICAL COLLECTION

OF THE

Moft celebrated, elegant, pithy and prudential
SAYINGS of all the illuftrious Perfonages of
Antiquity.

Expreffing their philofophical, civil, and military
Notions; reprefenting their Humour, Genius, Wit,
and Manners; and exhibiting a choice Variety of
curious and improving ANECDOTES of their
LIVES.

Selected from the Greek and Latin Collections of

DES. ERASMUS,

And illuftrated with his Remarks and Explanations.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR in the Strand.

MDCCLIII.

PA

7517 .AC3 1753.

T

CYRUS the Elder.

WHOSE who are diftinguifhed by a crooked nose, and whom the Greeks call the hawk-nos'd, are much admir'd by the Perfians, who look upon them as the greatest beauties, and efteem this property as the most elegant and undeniable ornament of nature: becaufe of this only reason, that Cyrus (for never was a prince better belov'd by the people) had this fpecies of nose. There are two kinds of thefe hawk-nofes: one is, when it protuberates clofe upon the face; which conftruction, in the opinion of Ariftotle, denotes an impudent mind, and properly belongs to ravens, or carrion crows. The other is, when the curvature arifes diftantly Vot. II.

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