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REV. PROFESSOR D. S. MARGOLIOCTH, D.LITT., ON 



We come next to the colophon of the Iliad, which is to be 

 found in the last four lines. The cryptogram, as it tells us 

 itself, extends to the first three only, the last line being a 

 chronogram . Its import is the following : — 



Be thou two prayers, 0 turning-point, and thou one thing, 

 0 end. One prayer is: May nil this which Horner sings, 

 the war that befell Bios, now be published,; and a 

 second : May thy epic, Titos, please. 



The " one thing" which follows is the chronogram made up of 

 the initials of the words in the last line ;* this may be read in 

 the year 871 or in the year 874. x 



We now return to the puzzle whence we started, the prologue 

 of the Iliad. We have already seen that the anagram-unit is 

 fourteen letters, or two vertical columns. Its import is the 

 following : — 



0 gracious deity, who from the Pod Homers boundaries didst 

 expel the contrary fiends: enter the v:ay thou earnest 

 then, and enter all over us, and delight us, playing notes 

 worthy of thyself. Breathe sweetly, charm of this story, 

 through the ears of the son of Aeneas ; leave Eastern 

 things afar, 0 Ilios, and come near to Hellas, if her 

 Cypris and her Athene still survive ; that the happy 

 lyre may crown thee with fair fame % 



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