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Excerpt from A View of Antient History, Vol. 2 of 2: Including the Progress of Literature and the Fine Arts When the Grecian sentinels, posted on the Euboean heights, announced the fate of the enemy's eet, a grate ful sacrifice was ofiered to Neptune the Deliverer; but the approach of an enemy, whose shattered remains were yet formidable, converted their transports of joy into anxiety for their present situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.