APPENDIX, No. II. g^ 



contribute to the wonders of the fcene. So terrible is the look 

 of Achilles, that Hector, prepared as he was to ftand the 

 conflia, lofes courage at his approach. The race of the two he- 

 roes goes far beyond human force ; but how far,— over that 

 the poet throws a vail. Fancy has now room to work, and may 

 reprefent every thing as far beyond what is common and natu- 

 ral as fhe will or can. They run three times round at the city, 

 —the fpace, the dillance, may be conceived as great as we' 

 choofe; but the poet neither does nor ought to determine them. 

 Such determination would fall either into the gigantic or the 

 diminutive. The cafe is different, when, by means of a com- 

 panfon, an idea and image can be enlarged or extended. The 

 poet then makes ufe of what is defined, to render the tmdefined 

 objea more diftincfl, and to throw light on what is obfcure. 

 That however is not the cafe here. 



No. III. Cp. 34. 67. 74.). 



ESSJr on the Topography of the Iliad*. By Profeffhr Heyne 

 ofGottingen, Aulk Counfellor to His Britannic Majejfy, ^c. 



FOR nine years had the war between the Greeks and Troians 

 been earned on. The former now lay encamped in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Troy, when the quarrel between Achilles and 

 AGAMEMNON, occafioncd a divifion in the army. 



Agamemnon„ 



fore^'t^e^R ^'f r Efl-ay follows out the train of idea., fuggefted in a Paper rrad be- 

 forethe Ro.al Soc.e.y of Sc.ences ar Gotringen, De aci. Homeric., H oppu.n.r.on. 

 a "^-W^c?,, .n the year 1783, publifhed in the fixth volume of their T«nfac- 

 lons All the d.fquifitions, there introduced, refpeding the origin of military tac 

 tics, the manner of drawing up an anny, and giving battle, and the art of fortifying 



I rr r'/ '"'^' " ''^"'''' '"■ ''^ ^''=^' ="" """' °™*«=d ^ «-y 'OP-I of 



Topography of the Ihad ; a fubjeft involved in fo much difficulty. I allowed my- 



