Note 1110 — ANTIENT HEROES.
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Harmonia was supposed to have been a personage, from whom all knowledge was derived. On this account the books of science were styled [1110]κυρβιας Ἁρμονιας, the books of Harmonia, as well as the books of Hermes. These were four in number, of which Nonnus gives a curious account, and says, that they contained matter of wonderful antiquity.