nectar.

How, also, Aratus paraphrased this (I. xviii. 489):--

Sole star that never bathes in th' ocean wave,--

saying:--

The Bears protected from cerulean ocean.

(I. xv. 628):--

They win their soul from death,

is paraphrased:--

He escaped Hades by a small peg.

Let this be enough on this subject.

But civil discourse belongs to the rhetorical art, with which it seems
Homer was first to be familiar. If Rhetoric is the power of persuasive
speaking, who more than Homer depended on this power? He excels all in
eloquence; also in the grasp of his subject he reveals an equal literary
power.

And the first part of this art is Arrangement, which he exhibits in all
his poetry, and especially at the beginning of his narratives. For he
did not make the beginning of the "Iliad" at a distant period, but at
the time when affairs were developing with energy and had come to a
head. The more inactive periods, which came into past time, he goes over
in other places succinctly. The same he did in the "Odyssey," beginning
from the close of the times of Odysseus's wanderings, in which it was
clearly time to bring in Telemachus and to show the haughty conduct of
the suitors. Whatever happened to Odysseus in his wanderings before this
he introduces into Odysseus's narrative. These things he prefers to
show as more probable and more effective, when said by the one who
experienced them.

As therefore all orators make use of introductory remarks to get
the benevolent attention of their audience, so our poet makes use of
exordiums fitted to move and reach the hearer. In the "Iliad" he first
declares that he is about to say how many evils happened to the Achaeans
through the wrath of Achilles and the high-handed conduct of Agamemnon;
and in the "Odyssey" how many labors and dangers Odysseus encountered
and surmounted all of them by the judgment and perseverance of his soul.
And in each one of the exordiums he invokes the Muse that she may make
the value of what is said greater and more divine.

While the characters introduced by him are made to say many things
either to their relatives or friends or enemies or the people, yet to
each he assigns a fitting type of speech, as in the beginning he makes
Chryseis in his words to the Greeks use a most appropriate exordium.
First he desires for them that they may be superior to their enemies and
may return home, in order that he might gain their kindly feeling.