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But Aristarchus not only interpolated lines which had no business there into the banquet of Menelaus, and by so doing made Homer make representations inconsistent with the system of the Lacedæmonians, and with the moderation of their king, but he also took away the singer from the Cretan chorus, mutilating his song in the following manner:— The gazing multitudes admire around Two active tumblers in the centre bound; Now high, now low their pliant limbs they bend, And general songs the sprightly revel end.Iliad, xvi. 603. So that blunder of his in using the word ἐξάρχοντες is almost irremediable, as the relation cannot after that possibly be brought back so as to refer to the singer.
