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TO
THESTORS
SONNE
Inquisitiue of
HOMER,
ABOVT THE CAVSES
OF THINGS.
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hestorides? Of all the skills unknowneTo errant Mortals; there remains not One,
Of more inscrutable Affaire, to finde
Than is the true State of a humane Minde.
Homer intimated in this his Answer to Thestorides, A will to haue him learne, The knowledge of himselfe, before his enquir'd so curiously the causes of other things. And from hence, had the great Peripatetique (Themistius) his most graue Epiphoneme, Anima quæ seipsam ignorat, quid sciret ipsa de alijs? And therefore (according to Aristotle) aduises all Philosophicall Students, to beginne with that Studie.
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