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stand, on a poll of scholars it is Thucydides 

 who would get most votes for deliberate 

 mendacity, for Herodotus' character seems to 

 have been, on the whole, reestablished. And 

 Horace, whom our ancestors thovightlessly re- 

 cited in youth and pretended to read for 

 pleasure in mature age, was seen to be as full 

 of cypher phrases and hidden meanings as 

 Shakespeare under the lens of a Baconian. 

 Whatever the conclusion, the fact remains that 

 scholars are reading the classics with opener 

 minds and a more awakened attention. No 

 wonder; for the great archaeological discover- 

 ies, besides being in themselves profoundly in- 

 teresting, were shedding new light on Greek 

 literature, and placing the Greek of historical 

 and legendary times in a wholly different posi- 

 tion. What has been regarded as gratuitous 

 invention appeared now as an echo from an 

 earlier world — the adornment and transmis- 

 sion of dim, prehistoric stories; Greece was 

 an intermediary between us and the earlier 

 civilization of Cnossos and Mycenae and the 

 Troad. Nothing could supply better food for 

 the imagination. Altogether, with the open- 



