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- To believe the author of the Iliad a mere compiler, is to degrade the powers of human invention; to elevate analytical judgment at the expense of the most ennobling impulses of the soul; and to forget the ocean in the contemplation of a polypus.Introduction (80% in)
There are no more uses of "degrade" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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