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1 This story, no doubt, deserves to be rejected as totally fabulous, even though we have Hemina's word for it.
2 See B. xvi. c. 70.
3 B. xii. c. 7, and B. xiii. c. 31. It was thought that the leaves and juices of the cedar and the citrus preserved books and linen from the attacks of noxious insects.
4 And because, as Livy says, their doctrines were inimical to the then existing religion.
5 Val. Maximus says that there were some books written in Latin, on the pontifical rights, and others in Greek on philosophical subjects.
6 Humanæ, Antiquitates.
7 See B. xxxiv. c. 11.
8 See B. xxxiii. c. 5.
9 He implies that it could not have been written upon paper, as the papyrus and the districts which produced it were not in existence in the time of Homer. No doubt this so-called letter, if shown at all, was a for- gery, a "pia fraus." See c. 21 of the present Book.
10 Il. B. vi. 1. 168.
11 "Codicillos," as meaning characters written on a surface of wood. πιναξ, as Homer calls it.
12 It was probably then that the supply of it first began to fail; in the sixth century it was still used, but by the twelfth it had wholly fallen into disuse.
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