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No editor could possibly tinker it into the whole which we possess; none could steer clear of many absurd anachronisms.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANGThe late Homeric rhapsodists avoided such tempting anachronisms.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANGIf this were so, the relative rarity of "anachronisms" and of modernisms in language in the Homeric poems is explained.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANGVirgil made no such attempt in the neid, of which, notwithstanding the manners abound in anachronisms of detail.
STUDIES ON HOMER AND THE HOMERIC AGE, VOL. 1 OF 3W. E. GLADSTONELudicrous anachronisms, not unlike those experienced by Alice in her looking-glass journey, are occasioned by this practice.
THE SOUL OF THE FAR EASTPERCIVAL LOWELLBut the poets were not careful archæologists, and regarded anachronisms as genially as did Shakespeare or Scott.
THE HOMERIC HYMNSANDREW LANGPowdered footmen serving modern coffee seemed here like anachronisms in livery.
IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTHAMELIA ANN BLANDFORD EDWARDSAny trifling anachronisms or inconsistencies, which sometimes occurred, never troubled him in the least.
THE ISLAND HOMERICHARD ARCHERThe reason is not apparent, especially since the transposition involves Luke in some anachronisms.
SOURCES OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELSCARL S. PATTONThe two former are lost, and most scholars deny the authenticity of the Tabula on the ground of material and verbal anachronisms.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 5, SLICE 5VARIOUS