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Show v A Y toward a f lemus by reafon of his great Youth, an Pyrrkus, by reafon of the Colour o his Hair. He was a Valiant but Fierc ( Jp I, I, ;4 Man: The Pleafure he receivid at hi f aH rma Vi&ory gain'd over Eurypylus, Son o Telephus, occafion'd (as others fay F :'m" Here Ther An un §o his Inftitution of this Pyrrhic Dance in which the Dancers were arm'd fro Top to Toe that it wa However l;"';r h: "fb;‘m iTh r mo The very Ancient is plain from Homer, who as he hintsat it in feveral Defcriptions I fo particularly he makes the exatt For and Figure of it to be engrav'd on th Shield of Achilles givn him by Pulcan The manner of the Performarnce feem to have confifted chiefly in the nimbl turning the Body, and fhifting ever S bound part, as it weredone to avold the Strok Bi nd e i Textas lege fugas, inconfufofgue recurfus Gf.' iJ ce e b{nk S i d Cfl;"[ fi, 4‘ ( I‘ o UW {4 ‘ - T ! - ad rP of an Enemy; and therefore this wa n yo c wh i fe rc Ex th o on den le Ap n'd tra we Soldier b me fo pe nc ‘D rb Py fcribe young Men and Maids together; bu the beft Account we meet with of thi Pyrrhic Performance, is in Claudian' Poems on the 6th Confulthip of Heno r7us Armatos hic [epe choros, certaque vagand u "‘A 11 Es angee "TIDtio |