Opusc. Mythol. Dionys. Halic. de Hom. Poes. c. 15; Apul. de Deo Socrat. s. f. 14 Vit. Hom. Section 28. 15 The riddle is given in Section 35. Compare Mackenzie's note, p. xxx. 16 Heeren's Ancient Greece, p. 96. 17 Compare Sir E. L. Bulwer's Caxtons v. i. p. 4. 18 Pericles and Aspasia, Letter lxxxiv., Works, vol ii. p. 387. 19 Quarterly Review, No. lxxxvii., p. 147. 20 Viz., the following beautiful passage, for the translation of which I am indebted to Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 286. "Origias, farewell! and oh! remember me Hereafter, when some stranger from the sea, A hapless wanderer, may your isle explore, And ask you, maid, of all the bards you boast, Who sings the sweetest, and delights you most Oh! answer all,--'A blind old man and poor Sweetest he sings--and dwells on Chios' rocky shore.'" _See_ Thucyd. iii, 104. 21 Longin., de Sublim., ix. Section 26. Othen en tae Odysseia pareikasai tis an kataduomeno ton Omaeron haelio, oo dixa taes sphodrotaetos paramenei to megethos 22 See Tatian, quoted in Fabric. Bibl. Gr. v. II t. ii. Mr. Mackenzie has given three brief but elaborate papers on the different writers on the subject, which deserve to be consulted. See Notes and Queries, vol. v. pp. 99, 171, and 221. His own views are moderate, and perhaps as satisfactory, on the whole, as any of the hypotheses hitherto put forth. In fact, they consist in an attempt to blend those hypotheses into something like consistency, rather than in advocating any individual theory. 23 Letters to Phileleuth; Lips. 24 Hist. of Greece, vol. ii. p. 191, sqq. 25 It is, indeed not easy to calculate the height to which the memory may be cultivated. To take an ordinary case, we might refer to that of any first rate actor, who must be prepare