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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 680 — XII. OF OPINIONS.

Henri Van Laun translation

Athos was a mountain in Roumelia which the sculptor Dinocrates proposed to hew into a statue of Alexander. Our author refers to this; Byron has also an allusion to it in the twelfth canto of his “Don Juan.”

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