Boise) 
one conceive that poems of fuch t copioufnefs, correctnefs, and 
abounding in fuch numberlefs beauties and ornaments, ftarted at 
once into exiftence, without a long previous cultivation of the 
poetic art by predeceffors. When Achilles is placed by his father 
Peleus under the care of Phoenix, it was 
Avdarneneve TAHOE TravTe 
Mubaw re pyrup emevas, mpyxTypa TE Epywv, 
that he might learn the arts of eloquence and civil wifdom, or to 
fpeak as well as a@. The works of Homer, perhaps, do not con- 
tain a paffage more decidedly in favour of the cultivation of let- 
ters and the attention paid to the education of a popular chief 
in thefe remote ages. 
+ Ipfa res fatis docet, tam elaboratum carmen nullo modo effe potuifle, nifi jam fatis 
multis poetarum ftudiis id effectum fuiffet. Heyne. apud. Comm. Noy. Gotting. yv. 8. 
ps 36. 
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