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Iliad, where ’fencer calls Hector wjva. Mamndtfe*, 
but does not feem to think this lufficient to prove 
that Homer was acquainted with thisMadnefs. But 
he omits two more Paffages in the feme Author, 
which, joined with this, amount to a Demonftra- 
tion that Homer was by no means ignorant of it. 
The firft is in the ninth Iliad, where Illyjfes is up- 
on his Embafly to Achilles. He defcribes to the 
laft mentioned Hero, the Diftrefs the Grecian Ar- 
my was in through his Abfence ; and when he has 
painted Heitor as-terrible as he can, he compares his 
Fury to the Rage of aMad Dog. Iliad Lib. ix. 1 . 237. 
— — "Ey.-mp S'i jjayz tdivi't (ZMimzIvcov 
MaiViTOi tx 7 rzlyXwi, onov r©- Ail, ill ti 77 c-i 
’Aii&is ©£85* b% 1 Au'traa hSliKip. 
— Hedtor verb valde trucibus oculis ad~ 
fpiciens 
Farit terribiliter, fretus Jove : nec quicquam 
honorat 
Viros neque ‘Deos ; ingens autem ipfum rabies 
invafit. 
If Homer had defign’d to defcribe a Mad Dog as 
a Phyfician, he could not have exprefs’d his Looks 
by a more proper Word than BAgf«a.iW. It mufl: 
alfo be confider’d, that this Difcourfe is directed to 
Achilles , who, having ftudied Phyfick under Chiron, 
was consequently more capable of receiving an Idea 
of the Mifchief Heitor did to his Country- men by 
this Metaphor. 
In the thirteenth Iliad , Heitor is again call’d 
A wmHr by Neptune. 
It mull be obferv’d that ?\v<saa,, hva-mmip, and 
Avsmb-fi, can properly, and in their natural Signifi- 
cation;,. 
