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This digression I have been obliged to make out of necessity, as
being desirous to expose the vanity of those that profess to write histories;
and I suppose I have sufficiently declared that this custom of transmitting
down the histories of ancient times hath been better preserved by those
nations which are called Barbarians, than by the Greeks themselves. I am
now willing, in the next place, to say a few things to those that endeavor
to prove that our constitution is but of late time, for this reason, as
they pretend, that the Greek writers have said nothing about us; after
which I shall produce testimonies for our antiquity out of the writings
of foreigners; I shall also demonstrate that such as cast reproaches upon
our nation do it very unjustly.
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