Homer

. What a perpetual Fund would it have been of obsolete Words and Phrases, unusual Barbarisms and Rusticities, absurd Spellings and complicated Dialects? I make no question but it would have been looked upon as one of the most valuable Treasuries of the

Greek

Tongue.

[I]

find likewise among the Ancients that ingenious kind of Conceit, which the Moderns distinguish by the Name of a

Rebus

[2]

, that does not sink a Letter but a whole Word, by substituting a Picture in its Place. When

Cæsar