 He wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment ; the Ilias he made for the men, and the Odysseis for the other sex.  A History of Classical Scholarship - Page 55by John Edwin Sandys - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...on each other. This appears from the snme passage of Lilian. " These loo.se songs," bays Bentley, " were not collected together in the form of an epic poem, till Pisistratus's time, about 500 years after." Passages to this effect may be found in Cicero and other... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...festivals and other days of merriment : the Iliad he madu for the men, and the Odysseis for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till about Pisistratus' time, about five hundred yean after.' t Jacob Bryant probably Knc.v little of this... | |
 | 1833 - 574 pages
...to be sung by himself for small earnings, and good cheer at festivals and other days of merriment. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem, till about five hundred years ^f after.' It is remarkable, that this passage, coming as it did from the... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 pages
...festivals and other days of merriment ; the Ilias he made for the men, and the Odyssels for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till Pisistratus's time, abovcf 500 years after. Nor is there one word in Homer that presages or promises... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...went so far as to deny that such a poet ever existed. cheer at festivals and other days of merriment. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem, till about five hundred years after." It is remarkable, that this passage, coming as it did from the Coryphseus... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 590 pages
...festivals and other days of merriment. The Iliad he made for the men and the Odysseis for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till Pisistratus's time, about five hundred years after." Whether all these poems were written originally... | |
 | 1857 - 924 pages
...personal existence of Homer. Bentley (Reply to Collins' s Discourse on Free Thinking: 1713) says : " Homer wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies. These loose songs were not collected together, into the form of an Epic poem, until five hundred years later." Vico (Principii di Una Scienza Nuova... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1853 - 122 pages
...doubted the common opinion regarding Homer, and the great Bentley had said expressly, ' that Homer wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies. These loose...collected together in the form of an epic poem till about 500 years after.' ' — Letter by Phileteutherus Lipsiensis, § 7. — WI ' There is no instance... | |
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