“I with my well-bent sickle in my hand,
Thou arm’d with one as keen.”[87]
And also in tillage,
“Then shouldst thou see
How straight my furrow should be cut and true.”[88]
And Homer was not singular in his opinion regarding these matters, for all educated people appeal to him in favour of the idea that such practical knowledge is one of the chief means of acquiring understanding.
5. That eloquence is regarded as the wisdom of speech, Ulysses manifests throughout the whole poem, both in the Trial,[89] the Petitions,[90] and the Embassy.[91] Of him it is said by Antenor,
“But when he spake, forth from his breast did flow
A torrent swift as winter’s feather’d snow.”[92]