"The action of the Iliad is centrifugal; that of the Odyssey, centripetal."

WILLIAM Geddes.

No. 6.

Modern Homers.

The articles on, and references to, Homer, author of the Iliad and Odyssey, has prompted me to gather the so-called modern Homers. together for information and reference hereafter :

The British Homer. Milton is called the British Homer.

"No more the Grecian muse unrivaled reigns,
To Britain let the nations homage pay;

She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains,
A Pinder's rapture in the lyre of Gray."

On Gray's Monument in Westminster Abbey.

The Celtic Homer-Ossian, son of Fingal king of Morven.

The Homer of our Dramatic Poets. So Shakespeare is called by Dryden (1564-1616).

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Shakespeare was the father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil. I admire rare Ben, but I love Shakespeare."-Dryden. The Homer of Ferrara. Aristo was so called by Tasso, Ferrarese (1474-1533).

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The Homer of the Franks. Angilbert was so called by Charlemagne (died S14).

The Homer of the French Drama, Pierre Corneille was so called by Sir Walter Scott (1606-1684).

The Homer of Geometry. A nickname given to Archimedes be

cause he stands as high in that science as Homer does in epic poetry. It must not be concealed that he fell into the prevailing error of the ancient philosophers, that geometry was degraded by being employed to produce anything useful.

The Homer of Portugal. A sobriquet applied to Camoens, author or the Lusiad.

Homeromastix. Zoilos of Amphipolis (B. C. 259-236). So called for his caustic criticism on Homer.

The Homer of the Isle. So Cowley, in his "An Answer to a Copy of Verses sent me to Jersey," probably refers to William Prynne.

The Homer of Modern Days-Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).

The Oriental Homer-Fredusi, the Persian poet, who wrote the Shah Nâmeh or history of the Persian kings. It contained 120,000 verses, and was the work of thirty years (840-1020).

The Prose Homer. Henry Fielding the novelist is called by Byron "The Prose Homer of Human Nature" (1707-1764).

The Homer of Philosophers-Plato (B. C. 429-347).

The Scottish Homer-William Wilkie, author of the The Epigonaid (1721-1772).

The Homer of This Age. An epithet conferred sarcastically on Gabriel Harvey, by Nash, in his "Have with you to Saffron Walden " (London, 1596).

The Homer of Women. So Nash, in his " Anatomy of Absurdity," calls Robert Greene.

Homer the Younger-Philiscos, one of the seven Pleiad poets of Alexandria, in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphos.

Homerites. A people of ancient Arabia dwelling in Arabia Felix. Gibbon says the first silk veil of the Kaaba or temple of Mecca was an offering by a pious king of the Homerites 700 years before the birth of Mahomet. ALEXANDER.

AMEN. (Vol. XI, p. 116.) tians Amen or Amun was the Hebrews were once captives. of him :

Ammon called by the ancient Egypchief god of ancient Egypt where the The Encyclopædia Britannica " says

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"His principal titles are-Lord of the heavens, king of the gods, substance of the world, and resident on the thrones of the world, eternal ruler, application of his celestial and terrestrial functions. He was also Lord of heaven and earth, streams and hills, and as a demi