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I have the firmest conviction that _Homer_ is a mere traditional synonyme / with, or figure for, the Iliad. You cannot conceivefor a moment any thing / about the poet, as you call him, apart from that poem. Difference in men / there was in a degree, but not in kind; one man was, perhaps, a better poet / than another; but he was a poet upon the same ground and with the same / feelings as the rest.
The want of adverbs in the Iliad is very characteristic. With more adverbs / there would have been some subjectivity, or subjectivity would have made / them.
The Greeks were then just on the verge of the bursting forth of / individuality.
Valckenaer's treatise[1] on the interpolation of the Classics by the later / Jews and early Christians is well worth your perusal as a scholar and / critic.
[Footnote 1: _Diatribe de Aristobulo Judaeo_. -- ED.]