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Excerpt from A Greek Anthology: Being Passages From the Greek Poets Chosen by E. C. Marchant of Trinity College, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge A more conspicuous gap needs a word of explanation. Homer is deliberately omitted, because the editor thought it idle to attempt to exhibit the great epics in selections. Homer needs to be read in quantity to be appreciated at his true worth. He is not like Milton, in whose long poems some passages tower above the level of others. Some of the battle scenes of the Iliad, it is true, are perfunctory; but if all the weak passages were left out, it would still be necessary to print three - quarters of the Iliad and the whole of the Odyssey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.