Note 271 — Chapter XXI · GRECIAN EPIC.—HOMERIC POEMS.
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See Wolf, Prolegg. c. xii. p. xliii. “Nondum enim prorsus ejecta et explosa est eorum ratio, qui Homerum et Callimachum et Virgilium et Nonnum et Miltonum eodem animo legunt, nec quid uniuscujusque ætas ferat, expendere legendo et computare laborant,” etc.
A similar and earlier attempt to construe the Homeric poems with reference to their age, is to be seen in the treatise called Il Vero Omero of Vico,—marked with a good deal of original thought, but not strong in erudition (Opere di Vico, ed. Milan, vol. v. pp. 437-497).