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] exposing their plagiarizing style, and selecting them from various periods, I shall turn to what follows.

Orpheus, then, having composed the line:

Homer plainly says:

And Musæus having written:

Homer says:

Again, Musæus having composed the lines:

Homer transcribes:

Again, Homer having said:

Archilochus and Cratinus write, the former:

and Cratinus in the Lacones:

Again, Archilochus, transferring that Homeric line: