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d'une exactitude scrupuleuse dans la vue generale que j'en donne,
car etant alle seul pour l'examiner je perdis mon crayon, et je fus
oblige de m'en fier a ma memoire. Je ne crois cependant pas avoir
trop a me plaindre d'elle en cette occasion."
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of Mentor itself, is given by the allegorists, viz.: the assumption
of Mentor's form by the guardian deity of the wise Ulysses, Minerva.
The classical reader may compare Plutarch, Opp. t. ii. p. 880;
Xyland. Heraclid. Pont. Alleg. Hom. p. 531-5, of Gale's Opusc.
Mythol. Dionys. Halic. de Hom. Poes. c. 15; Apul. de Deo Socrat. s.
f.
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4 Vit. Hom. Section 28.
5 The riddle is given in Section 35. Compare Mackenzie's note, p. xxx.
6 Heeren's Ancient Greece, p. 96.
7 Compare Sir E. L. Bulwer's Caxtons v. i. p. 4.
8 Pericles and Aspasia, Letter lxxxiv., Works, vol ii. p. 387.
9 Quarterly Review, No. lxxxvii., p. 147.
0 Viz., the following beautiful passage, for the translation of which
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