Thus the private life of the ancient Greeks and Romans may be more fully elucidated. […] To us however this appears to be an error, though as we see a very ancient one. […] To these may be added that of ancient Egypt. […] The same is the case with the poems named the Melampodia and Ægimios, likewise ascribed to this ancient bard. […] The ideas of the ancient Italians and other nations seem to have been similar.