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THERE is no one quite like Homer to those who love him. He is so simple yet so great, so easy to understand and withal so noble, that a shadowy friendship, firm and intimate at last, grows up between us; there are few great poets who can make friends as he can with mortal men. When one does get to know Homer the friendship lasts a lifetime, and one comes to feel what Mr. Pope calls “a certain complacency in his company”. Hard by my own door a scholar lives who knew his Homer by heart, every single word of him, a lifetime ago, and who has kept his friendship from youth to age; and in just the same way a certain old physician of Rostock, Prof. Otto Körner, has had Homer for a close and lifelong friend.
Die homerische Tierwelt
Von Prof. Dr. Otto Körner. Zweite, für Zoologen und Philologen neubearbeitete und ergänzte Auflage. Pp. iv + 100. (München: J. F. Bergmann, 1930.) 6.60 gold marks.
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T., D. Die homerische Tierwelt. Nature 129, 221–222 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129221a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129221a0
