The fate which awaits a presumptuous critic, even where his virulent reproaches are substantially well-founded, is plainly set forth in the treatment of Thersites; while the unpopularity of such a character is attested even more by the excessive pains which Homer takes to heap upon him repulsive personal deformities, than by the chastisement of Odysseus he is lame, bald, crook-backed, of misshapen head, and squinting vision."-- Grote, vol.i.p.

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89 According to Pausanias, both the sprig and the remains of the tree were exhibited in his time.

The tragedians, Lucretius and others, adopted a different fable to account for the stoppage at Aulis, and seem to have found the sacrifice of Iphigena better suited to form the subject of a tragedy.

Compare Dryden's "AEneid," vol.iii.

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90 -- _Full of his god, i.e.,_ Apollo, filled with the prophetic spirit.
"_The_ god" would be more simple and emphatic.
91 Those critics who have maintained that the "Catalogue of Ships" is an interpolation, should have paid more attention to these lines, which form a most natural introduction to their enumeration.
92 The following observation will be useful to Homeric readers: "Particular animals were, at a later time, consecrated to particular deities.