Note 336 — RADICALS.
Reading edition
The only person who seems knowingly to have retained this word, and to have used it out of composition, is [336]Homer. He had been in Egypt; and was an admirer of the theology of that nation. He adhered to antient [337]terms with a degree of enthusiasm; and introduced them at all hazards, though he many times did not know their meaning. This word, among others, he has preserved; and he makes use of it adverbially in its proper sense, when he describes any body superlatively great, and excellent. Thus he speaks of Calchas as far superior to every body else in prophetic knowledge, and styles him οχ' αριστος: