[203]. On Translating Homer, §§ 1, 2 passim.
[204]. καλλιγραφίας ἕνεκα—ὥσπερ ἀνθηροῖς χρώμασι.
[205]. I use the Tauchnitz edition, by Dindorf, 3 vols., Leipsic, 1858.
[206]. This is fairly close, I think, but the two first lines, at any rate, are too perfect not to be quoted in their own tongue—
Λουκιανὸς τάδ´ ἔγραφε, παλαιά τε μωρά τε εἰδῶς·
μωρὰ γὰρ ἀνθρώποις καὶ τὰ δοκοῦντα σοφά,
lines which grave themselves on the memory at twenty, and at fifty are only graven deeper.
[207]. II. 1-24.
[208]. II. 144-152.
[209]. τὸν μὲν εἴρωνα πέδοι κατάβαλε.