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Excerpt from The History of Athens: Politically and Philosophically Considered, With the View to an Investigation of the Immediate Causes of Elevation, and of Decline, Operative in a Free and Commercial State Arifiotle in his ninth chapter of Poetics, difcri minating hiftory and poetry, confiders not the dif tinétion as arifing from the meafure and harmony of verfe the hif'tories of Herodotus (fays be) though delivered in metre, would not confiitute a poem. 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.