χάλκεον, ἑπταβόειον· ὅ οἱ Τύχιος κάμε τεύχων
σκυτοτόμων ὄχ’ ἄριστος, Ὕλῃ ἔνι οἰκία ναίων·[[196]]
Here we have exactly the opposite of what Winkelmann asserts. So utterly forgotten, even in Homer’s time, was the name of the saddler who made the shield of Ajax, that the poet was at liberty to substitute that of a perfect stranger.
Various other little errors I have found which are mere slips of memory, or concern things introduced merely as incidental illustrations.
For instance, it was Hercules, not Bacchus, who, as Parrhasius boasts, appeared to him in the same shape he had given him on the canvas.[[197]]
Tauriscus was not from Rhodes, but from Tralles, in Lydia.[[198]]
The Antigone was not the first tragedy of Sophocles.[[199]]
But I refrain from multiplying such trifles.
Censoriousness it could not be taken for; but to those who know my great respect for Winkelmann it might seem trifling.