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That is to say, the evidence appeals to Mr. Leaf as valid, but is thought worse than inadequate by other great scholars, such as Monro and Blass; while the fact of the harmony of the picture of life, preserved through four or five centuries, appears to be left without explanation. Mr.
Quidam et sapientiam ita quidam finierunt, ut dicerent divinorum et humanorum sapientiam ..." which does not make sense. It used to be supposed that words had dropped out between ita and quidam. Sapientiam ita quidam finierunt...." Blass, Reinach, and Lindsay, in the works referred to in the note, mention several other masterly and elegant emendations.
When these qualities are absent, Homeric criticism may be described, in the recent words of Blass, as "a swamp haunted by wandering fires, will o' the wisps." In our country many of the most eminent scholars are no believers in separatist criticism.
Monro, Grote, Nutzhorn, and many others argue, lacks evidence. As Mr. Monro reasons, and as Blass states the case bluntly, "Solon, or Pisistratus, or whoever it was, put a stop, at least as far as Athens was concerned, to the mangling of Homer" by the rhapsodists or reciters, each anxious to choose a pet passage, and not going through the whole Iliad in due sequence.
Blass quite admits that the language of the Greek Testament may be rightly treated in connexion with the discoveries in Egypt furnished by the Papyri; but he has also properly maintained elsewhere that the books of the New Testament form a special group to be primarily explained by itself. Greatly as we are indebted to Dr.
This time answers came to his challenge, but not in confirmation. The Baron spoke with a gasping gentleness. 'So you trifle with me? I'm dangerous for that game. Mind you of Blass- Gesell? I made a better beast of him by sending him three-quarters of the road to hell for trial. Bellowing, 'Take that! he discharged a broad blade, hitherto concealed in his right hand, straight at Rothhals.
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