of Antiquity, that would take an Exception, without any Reason, against some particular Letter in the Alphabet, so as not to admit it once into a whole Poem. One
Tryphiodorus
was a great Master in this kind of Writing. He composed an
Odyssey
or Epick Poem on the Adventures of
Ulysses
, consisting of four and twenty Books, having entirely banished the Letter
A
from his first Book, which was called
Alpha