See the
fourteenth
book.
Iliad - Pope
See Muller's Hist. of Lit. , vi. Section 3. Welcker, _l. c. _ pp. 132,
272, 358, sqq. , and Mure, Gr. Lit. vol. ii. p. 284, sq.
9 This is so pretty a picture of early manners and hospitality, that
it is almost a pity to find that it is obviously a copy from the
Odyssey.
See the fourteenth book. In fact, whoever was the author of
this fictitious biography, he showed some tact in identifying Homer
with certain events described in his poems, and in eliciting from
them the germs of something like a personal narrative.
10 Dia logon estionto. A common metaphor. So Plato calls the parties
conversing daitumones, or estiatores. Tim. i. p. 522 A. Cf. Themist.
Orat. vi. p. 168, and xvi. p.
