Evidence
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| Tradition | Source | Passage | Confidence | Evidence | Record |
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| Greek | The Iliad | CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1209-1300 | high | Homer's invention is said to produce fire and rapture; everything moves and lives; the reader becomes hearer or spectator; his verse is compared to an army and to fire sweeping the earth, and his fancy to a chariot-wheel becoming fire by rapidity. | record |