Vulcan
,
Homer
says, that he had made twenty Tripodes running on Golden Wheels; which, upon occasion, might go of themselves to the Assembly of the Gods, and, when there was no more Use for them, return again after the same manner. Scaliger has rallied
Homer
very severely upon this Point, as M. Dacier has endeavoured to defend it. I will not pretend to determine, whether in this particular of
Homer
the Marvellous does not lose sight of the Probable. As the miraculous Workmanship of
Milton's
Gates is not so extraordinary as this of the