| [No. 351] | Saturday, April 12, 1712 | Addison |
In te omnis domus inclinata recumbit.
Virg.
If we look into the three great Heroick Poems which have appeared in the World, we may observe that they are built upon very slight Foundations.
Homer
lived near 300 Years after the
Trojan
War; and, as the writing of History was not then in use among the
Greeks
, we may very well suppose, that the Tradition of