Note 123 — Chapter VI
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"Exegi monumentum ære perennius," said Horace, gloriously. "Sum pius Æneas" is Virgil's expression, put into the mouth of his hero. "Ipse Menaleas," said Virgil himself. Homer and Sophocles introduce their heroes with self-sounded trumpetings:
Εἴμ' Οδυσσεὺς Δαερτιάδης ὅς πασι δόλοισι Ἀνθρώποισι μέλω, και μὲυ κλέος οὐρανὸn ικει. Odyssey,book ix., 19 and 20. Ὁ πᾶσι κλεινος Οἰδίπους καλούμενος. Œdipus Tyrannus, 8.