Note 274 — Chapter XXI · GRECIAN EPIC.—HOMERIC POEMS.
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Plato, Aristotle, and their contemporaries generally, read the most suspicious portions of the Homeric poems as genuine (Nitzsch, Plan und Gang der Odyssee, in the Preface to his second vol. of Comments on the Odyssey, pp. lx-lxiv).
Thucydidês accepts the Hymn to Apollo as a composition by the author of the Iliad.