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Wliy ? Not only because of the greater lapse of time ; for in a question of documentary criticism this is often a point of comparatively small moment ; hut because of the different conditions under which these works were composed, and the different mediums through which, in their earliest stage, they were transmitted. We read of no Pisistratus that first collected the scat- tered books of the -^neid ; the very MS. Which Dante gloried in, or something as good, is no doubt lying in the Grand Duke...'s library in Florence at the present hour. In HOMEK. 199 the case of these poets people may be vexed with various readings and doubtful lines, — such questions as curious editors will raise even with regard to modem Scotts and Byrons ; but there is no talk about cutting out whole books, and the strange process with which learned Germans are so familiar, of restoring a great poem to its integrity by de- priving it of some of its most beautiful parts. Let us en- deavor, then, to fix a steady eye on the real state of the Homeric text at the time when it was collected by Pisis- tratus.
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