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Athens: Its Rise and Fall
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CHAPTER V
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Indian rajahs do not usually travel, but we had an Indian rajah for some years in the Regent's Park; the Chinese are not in the habit of visiting England, but a short time ago some Chinese were in London.

Grant that Phoenicians had intercourse with Egypt and with Greece, and nothing can be less improbable than that a Phoenician vessel may have contained some Egyptian adventurers.

They might certainly be men of low rank and desperate fortunes--they might be fugitives from the law--but they might not the less have seemed princes and sages to a horde of Pelasgic savages.
[16] The authorities in favour of the Egyptian origin of Cecrops are .-- Diod., lib.

i.; Theopomp.; Schol.

Aristoph.; Plot.; Suidas.
Plato speaks of the ancient connexion between Sais and Athens.


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