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10.<br />

that it is obviously a copy from<br />

the Odyssey. See the fourteenth<br />

book. In fact, whoever<br />

was the author <strong>of</strong> this fictitious<br />

biography, he showed some<br />

tact in identifying <strong>Homer</strong> with<br />

certain events described in his<br />

poems, and in eliciting from<br />

them the germs <strong>of</strong> something<br />

like a personal narrative.<br />

Dia logon estionto. A common<br />

metaphor. So Plato calls the<br />

parties conversing daitumones,<br />

or estiatores. Tim. i. p. 522 A.<br />

Cf. <strong>The</strong>mist. Orat. vi. p. 168,<br />

and xvi. p. 374, ed. Petav So<br />

diaegaemasi sophois omou kai<br />

terpnois aedio taen Thoinaen<br />

tois hestiomenois epoiei, Choricius<br />

in Fabric. Bibl. Gr. T. viii.<br />

P. 851. logois gar estia, Athenaeus<br />

vii p 275, A

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