I introduced Didymus and Eustathius to Homer, and prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved, for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter into the spirit of a poet.

• 我将迪迭摩斯和尤斯台修斯[迪迭摩斯和尤斯台修斯都为评点荷马史诗的学者。]介绍给荷马，并劝他对他俩好一点；不过也许不值得对他们好，因为他很快看出他们缺乏天才，无法了解一位诗人的精神。