Excerpt from The Pillars of Hercules and Chaucer's "Trophee" Manifestly the original misunderstander of the passage in the Epistola did not owe his knowledge of the Eastern Pillars of Hercules to that work, for it does not use the word columnar. He was doubtless already familiar with the passage in the Historia de Preliis (derived from Julius Velerius) in which the columnae are mentioned (see p. 551, above), and, coming upon the same anecdote in a corrupt text of the Epistola (or in a corrupt quotation from it), recognized ...
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Excerpt from The Pillars of Hercules and Chaucer's "Trophee" Manifestly the original misunderstander of the passage in the Epistola did not owe his knowledge of the Eastern Pillars of Hercules to that work, for it does not use the word columnar. He was doubtless already familiar with the passage in the Historia de Preliis (derived from Julius Velerius) in which the columnae are mentioned (see p. 551, above), and, coming upon the same anecdote in a corrupt text of the Epistola (or in a corrupt quotation from it), recognized the identity of the incident, but suppom tropics (or whatever he read instead of it) to be the name of an author. This error he may have made at the time, or, very possibly, years afterward, when he was writing from memory. Or, still more probably, we are concerned with a case of progressive misunderstanding, in which several persons were implicated. Crescit made! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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