Iliad
, represents Anger, or the Irascible Part of Human Nature; That upon drawing his Sword against his Superior in a full Assembly,
Pallas
is only another Name for Reason, which checks and advises him upon that Occasion; and at her first Appearance touches him upon the Head, that Part of the Man being looked upon as the Seat of Reason. And thus of the rest of the Poem. As for the
Odyssey
, I think it is plain that
Horace
considered it as one of these Allegorical Fables, by the Moral which he has given us of several Parts of it. The greatest
Italian
Wits have applied themselves to the Writing of this latter kind of Fables: As