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168.<br />

this task is not, as a general<br />

rule, immediately described. A<br />

certain interval is allowed them<br />

for reaching the appointed<br />

scene <strong>of</strong> action, which interval<br />

is dramatised, as it were, either<br />

by a temporary continuation <strong>of</strong><br />

the previous narrative, or by<br />

fixing attention for a while on<br />

some new transaction, at the<br />

close <strong>of</strong> which the further account<br />

<strong>of</strong> the mission is resumed."<br />

—With tablets sealed. <strong>The</strong>se<br />

probably were only devices <strong>of</strong><br />

a hieroglyphical character.<br />

Whether writing was known in<br />

the <strong>Homer</strong>ic times is utterly<br />

uncertain. See Grote, vol ii. p.<br />

192, sqq.

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