Chapter XLIII: Book X: , it may be alleged that the writer of the Odyssey took them

This makes the writer of the _Odyssey_ to have taken about one line in every 33 of the 579 lines of which Book X. consists. Disciples of Wolf--no two of whom, however, are of the same opinion, so it is hard to say who they are--must either meet my theory that the _Odyssey_ is all written at one place, by one hand, and in the eleventh century B.C., with stronger weapons than during the last six years they have shown any signs of possessing, or they must fall back on some Laputan-manner-of-making-books theory, which they will be able to devise better than I can.

I do not forget that the opponents of the genuineness of _Il_. X. may contend that the passages above given were taken from the _Odyssey_, but this contention should not be urged in respect of Book X. more than in respect of the other Books, which are all of them equally replete with passages that are found in the _Odyssey_, and in the case given above of _Il_. X. 243, 244 and _Od_. i. 65, 66, it is not easy to doubt that the Iliadic passage is the original, and the Odyssean the copy.

I will now deal with the undoubted Book XI., omitting as in the case of Book X. all lines that occur in other Books, unless I call special attention to them.

The first two lines of Book XI. are identical with the first two of