The Truth About Homer With Some Remarks On Prof Jebbs Introduction to Homer
The Truth About Homer With Some Remarks On Prof Jebbs Introduction to Homer
F a Frederick Apthorp Paley
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f Even in the time of Demosthenes (De Coron. 958) ink was not a fluid, but a pigment, prepared, as our paints are, by rubbing- on a slab (rpifieiv TO psXav). To the wiping o^with a sponge any words to be obliterated, Aeschylus probably refers in the well-known verse, Ag. 1329, /3o\a*e yypawrffcuv airoyyos wXtaev ypctQriv. The art of writing (that of cutting inscriptions is quite another matter) must have had a very long and very gradual period of evolution. I have shown, in " Bibliographia Grra...eca, " that written books, ^t/jX/a, i. E. , the transcription and sale of copies, cannot be traced much earlier than B. C. 400. The celebrated verse in II. Vi. 169, ypa\l*jiG ev TrivaKi TTTVKTW QvpofOopa TroXXa, is capable of an easy and satisfactory explanation, if only we apply the right key the lateness of the compilation of the poem in its present form. The a % par a \nypa were, in the original Lycian story, so-me kind of symbolical o-r " hierogly- phic " writing ; but when such a form as 7r^i/jvara (160) had found its way.
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