^ P P E N D I X, No. II. 87 



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

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

 conflidl, 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 ftie will or can. They run three times round at the city, 

 — the fpace, the diltance, 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- 

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

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

 objedl more diflindl, and to throw light on what is obfcure. 

 That however i« not the cafe here. 



No. III. (p. 34. 67. 74.). 



ESS Jy on the Topography of the Iliad "^^ By Profeffor Heyne 

 of Gottingeriy Aulic Counfellor to His Britannic Majejly, i^c, 



FOR nine years had the war between the Greeks and Trojans 

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

 bourhood of Troy, when the quarrel between Achilles and 

 Agamemnon, occafioned a divifion in the army. 



Agamemnon,, 



*-The prefent Eflay follows out the train of ideas, fuggefted in a Paper read be- 

 fore the Rojal Society of Sciences at Gottingen, De acie Homerica, et oppugnaftone 

 a'TroJanisfiicia, in the year 1783, publiihed in the fixth volunrie of their Tranfafc- 

 tions. All the difquifitions, there introduced, refpeding the origin of military tac- 

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

 and attacking a port, as defcribed in the Iliad, are here omitted •, many topics, OS- 

 the other hand, are now correfted and enlarged. That Effay v/as my firft on ths 

 Topography of the Iliad ; a fubjed involved in fo much difficulty. I allowed my- 



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