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LIBER VII · CAPUT 57

THE THINGS ABOUT WHICH MANKIND FIRST OF ALL AGREED. THE ANCIENT LETTERS

THE THINGS ABOUT WHICH MANKIND FIRST OF ALL AGREED. THE ANCIENT LETTERS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
THE THINGS ABOUT WHICH MANKIND FIRST OF ALL AGREED. THE ANCIENT LETTERS · EDITORIAL PLATE VII.57 · modern editorial plate
THE THINGS ABOUT WHICH MANKIND FIRST OF ALL AGREED. THE ANCIENT LETTERS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Gentium consensus tacitus primus omnium 210 conspiravit, ut Ionum litteris uteretur.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

There was at the very earliest period a tacit consent among all nations to adopt the letters now used by the Ionians.