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II. SO far as I can follow Mr. Gladstone's investigations, it appears to me that Homer has exactly fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in the previous article. As many references are made to natural objects which have the same colours now as they had in his time, I am able, with my colour-blind experience, to judge what sensations they would present to his eyes, supposing him colour-blind, and I can thus form a judgment of the appropriateness and consistency of his descriptions on that hypothesis. I can clearly trace the existence of two groups of epithets, which, so far as I can see, are kept fairly distinct, and the words in which are never mixed up with the ideas belonging to the contrary group. The epithets are—
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Pole, W. COLOUR BLINDNESS IN RELATION TO THE HOMERIC EXPRESSIONS FOR COLOUR 1 . Nature 18, 700–704 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018700a0
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