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have so harmoniously dispensed with the
services of all six in the sequel." The
discrepancy, by which Pylaemenes, who
is represented as dead in the fifth book,
weeps at his son's funeral in the thirteenth,
can only be regarded as the result
of an interpolation.
Grote, although not very distinct in stating
his own opinions on the subject, has
done much to clearly show the incongruity
of the Wolfian theory, and of Lachmann's
modifications with the character
of Peisistratus. But he has also shown,
and we think with equal success, that the
two questions relative to the primitive
unity of these poems, or, supposing that
impossible, the unison of these parts by
Peisistratus, and not before his time, are
essentially distinct. In short, "a man may
believe the Iliad to have been put together
out of pre-existing songs, without recognising
the age of Peisistratus as the