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tending to find and call attention to faults
- To deny that many corruptions and interpolations disfigure them, and that the intrusive hand of the poetasters may here and there have inflicted a wound more serious than the negligence of the copyist, would be an absurd and captious assumption, but it is to a higher criticism that we must appeal, if we would either understand or enjoy these poems.Introduction (72% in)
There are no more uses of "captious" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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