Note 068 The praises of Dionysius are just and lively. Ancient Greek

( Syria)

(in Periegesi, v. 902, in tom. iv. Geograph. Minor. Hudson.) In another place he styles the country Ancient Greek

(v. 898.). He proceeds to say,

This poetical geographer lived in the age of Augustus, and his description of the world is illustrated by the Greek commentary of Eustathius, who paid the same compliment to Homer and Dionysius, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. l. iv. c. 2, tom. iii. p. 21, &c.)

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