But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which all other poets handle? Is not war his great argument? and does he not speak of human society and of intercourse of men, good and bad, skilled and unskilled, and of the gods conversing with one another and with mankind, and about what happens in heaven and in the world below, and the generations of gods and heroes? Are not these the themes of which Homer sings?

These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. I'm aggrieved when sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.

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