as had an opportunity of listening to the improvisation of
Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius."--_Ancient
Greece,_ p. 94.

4 "Should it not be, since _my_ arrival? asks Mackenzie, observing
that "poplars can hardly live so long". But setting aside the fact
that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients
had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew near
places consecrated by the presence of gods and great men. See Cicero
de Legg II I, sub init., where he speaks of the plane tree under
which Socrates used to walk and of the tree at Delos, where Latona
gave birth to Apollo. This passage is referred to by Stephanus of
Byzantium, _s. v._ N. T. p. 490, ed. de Pinedo. I omit quoting any
of the dull epigrams ascribed to Homer for, as Mr. Justice Talfourd
rightly observes, "The authenticity of these fragments depends upon
that of the pseudo Herodotean Life of Homer, from which they are
taken." Lit of Greece, pp. 38 in Encycl. Metrop. Cf. Coleridge,
Classic Poets, p. 317.

5 It is quoted as the work of Cleobulus, by Diogenes Laert. Vit.
Cleob. p. 62, ed. Casaub.

6 I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the
Greek leschai.

7 Os ei tous, Homerous doxei trephein autois, omilon pollon te kai
achreoin exousin. enteuthen de kai tounoma Homeros epekrataese to
Melaesigenei apo taes symphoraes oi gar Kumaioi tous tuphlous
Homerous legousin. Vit. Hom. _l. c._ p. 311. The etymology has been
condemned by recent scholars. See Welcker, Epische Cyclus, p. 127,
and Mackenzie's note, p. xiv.

8 Thestorides, thnetoisin anoiston poleon per, ouden aphrastoteron
peletai noou anthropoisin. Ibid. p. 315. During his stay at Phocoea,
Homer is said to have composed the Little Iliad, and the Phocoeid.
See Muller's Hist. of Lit., vi. Section 3. Welcker, _l. c._ pp. 132,
272, 358, sqq., and Mure, Gr. Lit. vol. ii. p. 284, sq.

9 This is so pretty a picture of early manners and hospitality, that
it is almost a pity to find that it is obviously a copy from the
Odyssey. See the fourteenth book. In fact, whoever was the author of
this fictitious biography, he showed some tact in identifying Homer
with certain events described in his poems, and in eliciting from
them