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[pg<br />

xxv]<br />

one, and so it has proved;<br />

but, first, the poems were<br />

destined to undergo many<br />

vicissitudes and corruptions,<br />

by the people who<br />

took to singing them in<br />

the streets, assemblies,<br />

and agoras. However, Solon<br />

first, and then Peisistratus,<br />

and afterwards<br />

Aristoteles and others, revised<br />

the poems, and restored<br />

the works <strong>of</strong> Melesigenes<br />

<strong>Homer</strong>os to<br />

their original integrity in<br />

a great measure." 33<br />

Having thus given some general notion<br />

<strong>of</strong> the strange theories which have developed<br />

themselves respecting this most interesting<br />

subject, I must still express my<br />

conviction as to the unity <strong>of</strong> the author-

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