likewise a Place in his Poem, and the venerable
Trojan
Prince, who was the Father of so many Kings and Heroes. There is in these several Characters of
Homer
, a certain Dignity as well as Novelty, which adapts them in a more peculiar manner to the Nature of an Heroic Poem. Tho' at the same time, to give them the greater Variety, he has described a
Vulcan
, that is a Buffoon among his Gods, and a
Thersites
among his Mortals.