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See Don Quixote. At first he is introduced as the opposite of Don Quixote, and used merely to bring out his master's peculiarities in a more striking relief. It is not until we have gone through nearly half of the First Part that he utters one of those proverbs which form afterwards the staple of his conver IMG:content-0868.png:[blocks in formation] Sanchuniathon (san-ku-ni'a-thon), or San chon i a thon (san-kō-ni'a-thon). [Gr. Σαγχουνιάθων , Σαγχωνιάθων, Σαγχωνιαίθων , said by Movers to mean 'the whole law of Chon,' and thus the name, not of a person, but of a collection of writings.] An (alleged) ancient Phenic i an writer, said to have lived before the Trojan war, whose works (founded upon records preserved in the temples) Philo Byblius pretended to have translated. Great importance is usually attributed to the so-called fragments of San chon i a thon. It is well known that in Eusebius there are complete extracts of a Phoenician history written by a certain Philo of Byblos who lived in the first second centuries This Philo of Byblos is said to have translated his history from the Phoenician original of a certain San chon i a thon. But now the question remains, did this ancient Phœnician document ever exist, or did Philo only wish to cover his own work by the authority of an ancient, more or le mythical, name? This last opinion was formerly maintained by Movers, and quite lately defended with important arguments by Baudi in. This opinion is supported by the strong syncretistic and euhemeristic tendency of the fragments, which betray far too much knowledge of Egyptian, Greek, and perhaps even Persian ideas to be regarded as reliable statements as to the original form of the Phœnician religion.