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Anthology, which I promised above. Among the Greek epigrams of all epochs, of which this collection is composed, there is one which relates precisely to the custom of which we speak. The _Zeu Soson_ of this epigram is the translation of the _Jupiter adsit_ of the Latins. I say the translation and not the original. For this is not one of those fragments which may be of an epoch anterior to that in which we have placed, and in which we have a right to place master Pomponius and his little adventure. In extending their empire over the countries of the Greek tongue, the Romans imported there a great number of their customs and social habits: the _Jupiter adsit_ must have been of this number, and therefore we find it under Greek pens. I dare not venture here upon the Greek text of the
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Anthology,