18, Philostorg.vii.3, &c.) M.de Beausobre more reasonably conjectures the philosopher Apollonius, or the emperor Vespasian: in the latter supposition, the female is a city, a province, or perhaps the queen Berenice, (Bibliotheque Germanique, tom.xiii.p.

1-92.)] [Footnote 8: Euseb.Hist.Eccles.l.i.

c.13.The learned Assemannus has brought up the collateral aid of three Syrians, St.Ephrem, Josua Stylites, and James bishop of Sarug; but I do not find any notice of the Syriac original or the archives of Edessa, (Bibliot.Orient.tom.i.

p.
318, 420, 554;) their vague belief is probably derived from the Greeks.] [Footnote 9: The evidence for these epistles is stated and rejected by the candid Lardner, (Heathen Testimonies, vol.i.p.

297-309.) Among the herd of bigots who are forcibly driven from this convenient, but untenable, post, I am ashamed, with the Grabes, Caves, Tillemonts, &c., to discover Mr.Addison, an English gentleman, (his Works, vol.i.