Abstract
I am well aware that lofty genius is far removed from flawlessness; for invariable accuracy incurs the risk of pettiness, and in the sublime . . . there must be something which is overlooked... I have myself noted not a few errors on the part of Homer and other writers of the greatest distinction .... Still I do not term them wilful errors, but rather oversights of a random and casual kind, due to neglect and introduced with all the heedlessness of genius .... Would you not. .. choose to be Homer rather than Apollonius?... in lyric poetry would you prefer to be Bacchylides rather than Pindar? and in tragedy to be Ion of Chios rather than Sophocles?x
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