Note 307 — PART THE SECOND. (continued 6)
Reading edition
In the Prolegomena to Villoisson's Iliad it is stated, that Pisistratus, in collecting the works of Homer, was imposed upon by spurious imitations of the Grecian bard's style; and that not suspecting the fraud, he was led to incorporate them as the genuine productions of Homer.
Cowper justly ridicules so extravagant a supposition.