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

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 poet…

In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.

These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.

In [his] mind, madness. Thousands of competing contradictory impossible visions that make no sense all because they can't all fit together but they do fit toge…

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.