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7972	Lang, Andrew	Homer and His Age			.txt	text/plain	96350	5596	76	most Homeric critics, the later continuators of the Greek Epics, about of the rule so far as to suppose that the late Homeric poets, being hand, he says that the later poets of the _Iliad_ did not cling to Here (_Iliad_, Book II., line 50) the kernel ceases, Mr. Leaf says, and by late rhapsodists in the Iron Age, who keep the great obsolete shields Small shields of the Greek historic period are "unknown to Homer," Mr. Leaf says, "with a very few curious exceptions," [Footnote: _Iliad_, The theory of critics is that late poets introduced the bronze _thorex_ 'shield.'" [Footnote: Leaf, _Iliad_, vol. His late poets, in the age of iron, always say that the weapons of the passages" in the _Iliad_ by the poet of the _Odyssey_, we shall not un-Homeric." [Footnote: Leaf, _Iliad_, vol. The poet of Book X., however late, knows the _ILIAD_ well, for he keeps _Iliad_ [Footnote: Homer, pp.	./cache/7972.txt	./txt/7972.txt