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53.<br />

Grote, vol. ii. p 92. "It is an assembly<br />

for talk. Communication<br />

and discussion to a certain<br />

extent by the chiefs in person,<br />

<strong>of</strong> the people as listeners and<br />

sympathizers—<strong>of</strong>ten for eloquence,<br />

and sometimes for<br />

quarrel—but here its ostensible<br />

purposes end."<br />

Old Jacob Duport, whose<br />

"Gnomologia <strong>Homer</strong>ica" is full<br />

<strong>of</strong> curious and useful things,<br />

quotes several passages <strong>of</strong> the<br />

ancients, in which reference is<br />

made to these words <strong>of</strong> <strong>Homer</strong>,<br />

in maintenance <strong>of</strong> the belief<br />

that dreams had a divine origin<br />

and an import in which men<br />

were interested.

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