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The Iliad - Homer ยท 80 words
Nor is this morbid species of sagacity by any means to be looked upon as a literary novelty. Justus Lipsius, a scholar of no ordinary skill, seems to revel in the imaginary discovery, that the tragedies attributed to Seneca are by four different authors.34 Now, I will venture to assert, that these tragedies are so uniform, not only in their borrowed phraseology a phraseology with which writers like Boethius and Saxo Grammaticus were more charmed than ourselves in their freedom.
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