Note F — Horace, Ode xvi., Book iii.

This is but a feeble attempt to reproduce Homer in his own majestic Hexameter. Our language contains too many monosyllables to be cast successfully in this rhythm; hence we can give but a faint echo of the dash and roar of old Homer’s lines. The passages here reproduced, like most literary gems, lose much of their luster when taken from the settings in which the master has placed them.