889
Hom. Il. xii. 433.
890
Æn. viii. 407-13.
891
In Dibdin’s ‘Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics,’ we find nineteen editions of Virgil between 1469 and 1478. The Princeps of Homer was only printed in 1488. Panzer, according to Dibdin, enumerates ninety editions of Virgil in the 15th century (ii. 540.). Mr. Hallam says (Lit. Eur., i. 420.), ‘Ariosto has been after Homer the favourite poet of Europe.’ I presume this distinguished writer does not mean to imply that Homer has been more read than any other poet. Can his words mean that Homer has been more approved? It is worth while to ask the question: for the judgments of Mr. Hallam are like those of Minos, and reach into the future.
892
Il. xxi. 307, et seqq.
893
Il. v. 777.
894
Il. xii. 22.
895
Æn. vi. 724-893.
896
We cannot safely assume the second Νεκυΐα of Od. xxiv. to be free from interpolations.
897
Homer has used this figure; but in an entirely different connection, Il. viii. 13-16.
898
Æn. vi. 503.
899
Æn. ii. 27. vi. 88.
900
Æn. xi. 239-270.
901
Æn. vi. 529.
902
Od. xvi. 118.
903
Æn. iii. 104.
904
Æn. vi. 63.
905
Scott and Liddell, in voc.
906
Æn. x. 255. Cf. i. 618, Phrygius Simois; vii. 597, et alibi.
907
Il. iii. 184.
908
Il. xii. 436.
909
Il. viii. 18.
910
Ibid. 134. Cf. vi. 650.
911
Æn. iii. 104.
912
Æn. iii. 109.
913
Apollod. III. xii. 1.