It is very singular that that is the plan which every writer on the early chronicles of France and England would adopt,--and yet which so few writers agree to*****[three illegible words in the print copy]***** the obscure records of the Greeks.
[91] Plutarch cites Clidemus in support of another version of the tale, somewhat less probable, viz., that, by the death of Minos and his son Deucalion, Ariadne became possessed of the throne, and that she remitted the tribute.
[92] Thucydides, b.ii., c.

15.
[93] But many Athenians preferred to a much later age the custom of living without the walls--scattered over the country .-- (Thucyd., lib.
ii., 15.) We must suppose it was with them as with the moderns--the rich and the great generally preferred the capital, but there were many exceptions.
[94] For other instances in which the same word is employed by Homer, see Clinton's Fast Hell., vol.i., introduction, ix.
[95] Paus., l.i., c.

19; l.ii., c.

18.
[96] Paus., l.vii., c.25.

An oracle of Dodona had forewarned the Athenians of the necessity of sparing the suppliants.
[97] Herod.