Homer
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 26 instances of Homer in 13 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Homer in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 4.
On Constancy cowardly to make room to defeat them?” He then reminds him that Homer had praised Aeneas’s mastery of retreat. And, after Laches changes his mind …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 17.
On Pedantry him, one with a sentence of Seneca, another with a verse of Homer, and so forth, every one according to his talent; and he fancied …
- Book 1 · Chapter 42 · ¶ 26.
On the Inequality among Us and purely human? This is not of the complexion of that which Homer makes to issue from the wounded gods.” The poet Hermodorus had written …
- Book 1 · Chapter 52 · ¶ 3.
On the Parsimony of the Ancients with no more than seven servants in his train. ‘Tis said that Homer had never more than one, Plato three, and Zeno, founder of the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 210.
Apology for Raymond Sebond will be like gods, knowing good and evil.❦ And the sirens, in Homer, to allure Ulysses, and draw him within the danger of their snares, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 284.
Apology for Raymond Sebond dogmas are held by many of the ancients to be taken from Homer, the seven sages, and from Archilochus and Euripides, and to whose number …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 305.
Apology for Raymond Sebond and professes to have no other science but that of opposing himself. Homer, their author, has equally laid the foundations of all the sects of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 647.
Apology for Raymond Sebond various considerations; nay, as many as we please. Is it possible that Homer could design to say all that we make him say, and that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 647.
Apology for Raymond Sebond and cannot easily be put out of the conceit that it was Homer’s design; and yet he is as well acquainted with this author as …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 715.
Apology for Raymond Sebond said, that bodies had never any existence, but only birth; conceiving that Homer had made the Ocean and Thetis father and mother of the gods, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 1.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War they have had certain books in particular esteem, as Alexander the Great, Homer; Scipio Africanus, Xenophon; Marcus Brutus, Polybius; Charles V, Philippe de Commines; and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 2.
On the Most Excellent Men One of them Homer: not that Aristotle and Varro, for example, were not, peradventure, as learned …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 4.
On the Most Excellent Men this judgment we are not to forget that it is chiefly from Homer that Virgil derives his excellence, that he is guide and teacher; and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 10.
On the Most Excellent Men unus Homerus Sceptra potitus; Add the companions of the Muses, whose sceptre Homer has solely obtained.❦ …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 13.
On the Most Excellent Men spoils, gave order it should be reserved for him to keep his Homer in, saying: that he was the best and most faithful counsellor he …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 13.
On the Most Excellent Men Alcibiades, having asked one, who pretended to learning, for a book of Homer, gave him a box of the ear because he had none, which …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 13.
On the Most Excellent Men poor he had not wherewithal to maintain two servants. “What!” replied he, “Homer, who was much poorer than thou art, keeps above ten thousand, though …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 13.
On the Most Excellent Men is dead.” What did Panaetius leave unsaid when he called Plato the Homer of the philosophers? …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 80.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers What Homer and Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians, may …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 136.
On Some Verses of Virgil against my will: but if it be for my own particular (whatever Homer truly says, that modesty is a foolish virtue in an indigent person), …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 287.
On Some Verses of Virgil For whereas Homer extends it so far as to the budding of the beard, Plato …
- Book 3 · Chapter 7 · ¶ 8.
On the Inconvenience of High Status with no more ceremony than he would throw that of a porter.” Homer was fain to consent that Venus, so sweet and delicate a goddess …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 79.
On Vanity down somewhere else already. Repetition is everywhere troublesome, though it were in Homer; but ’tis ruinous in things that have only a superficial and transitory …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 57.
On Physiognomy you to commiseration. I have both friends and kindred, not being, as Homer says, begotten of wood or of stone, no more than others, who …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 65.
On Physiognomy of use to some others. Such there are who quote Plato and Homer, who never saw either of them; and I also have taken things …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 54.
On Experience fertility is the same now that it was in the time of Homer and Plato. But is it not that we seek more honor from …