An Anniversary Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society Dece
An Anniversary Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society Dece
Henry Wheaton
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But if we consider the radical meaning of the word QupQocpag to be, speaking a foreign tongue, the history of that early period suggests ample reason why this word should be sparingly used by Homer, since the Greek language could not, in the Trojan times, have attained any thing like its subse- quent fixed character ; and instead of wondering that Homer 1S21. ] Mr Wheatoii's Discourse. 157 uses the word but once, we are strongly inclined to question the autiienticity of II. Ii. 807. It is actua...lly rejected, as Roth observes, by an ancient scholiast ; though we cannot approve the latitude with which the Bipont Editor of Thucydides re- marks, that neither Eustathius, the IVIinor Scholia, nor any one else comments on this line. It is certainly commented upon by authors far more important than any Scholia, by Thucydi- des and Strabo, by Apollouius and according to Heyne, II. Iv. 434, by two scholiasts in the Leyden manuscript. This idea of the radical meaning of barbarian in the 2yro- fane Greek writers is confirmed by its use in the New Testa- ment, as in the well known passage of St Paul, 1 Cor.
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