George A. Aitken

Capitolo 70

    That that followed was every extasy and trance,
    Immortal pleasures round off my eyes that swim they danced,
    And the joys been struck dumb in which sweet tost of the tumults,
    I thought my breath and my new being lost._[126]

You followed, and thousand good things said at random, but so oddly
mixed that you would be proper to say all of his/her intelligence it is the mere good luck, and
not the effect of reason and judgment. When I made my escape of here me
you find a gentleman that plays the critic on two other great poets, also
Virgil and Homer. [127] he was observing, that Virgils it is more judicious
what the other in the epithets he gives his/her hero. "Homer is usual
epithet", it said him, "it is {~ Pi of the Greek Letter of the Capital ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Omicron With OXIA ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Delta ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Alpha ~} {~ Small Final Greek Letter SIGMA ~} {~ Small Greek Letter OMEGA With PSILI ~} {~ Small Greek Letter Who ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Upsilon With Various ~} {~ Small Final Greek Letter SIGMA ~} [the ochus of Podas], or {~ Pi of the Greek Letter of the Capital ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Omicron ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Delta ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Alpha With OXIA ~} {~ Small Greek Letter RHO ~} {~ Small Greek Letter Who ~} {~ Small Letter Greek Age ~} {~ Small Final Greek Letter SIGMA ~} [Podarches],
and its indiscretion has often been rallied at the critics, for
mentioning the agility of foot in Achilles, although he describes him/it
being standing, sitting lying down, fighting eating, drinking or in some
other circumstance, however foreigner or repugnant to go to all speed' and the activity.
The epithet common of Virgil to AEneas, is 'Pius' or 'Pater.' I have therefore
considered", it said him, "that passage there is in some of the actions of its hero,
where both would have been very improper these appellatives, to see
if I could pick him/it up to the same guilt with Homer:  and this, I think, it is
his/her reunion with Dido in the cavern, where Pius AEneas would have been
absurd, and Pater AEneas a caricature:  the poet has therefore wisely