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Excerpt from Pausanias' Description of Greece, Vol. 1 Pausanias' Description of Greece is also full of various information on many topics. It is for example a mine of Mythology. For its various matter it has been happily compared to a County History. There is often a quiet vein of humour in Pausanias, who seems to have been a1m05t equally a believer in Providence and in Homer. 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.