如果有人要我选择我心目中的英雄人物,我觉得有三位驾凌于其他人之上。—位是荷马。这并不是说亚里士多德或瓦罗(举例而已)可能不及他那么博学多才,也不是说维吉尔在诗情上跟他无法相比——这点我让熟悉这两位诗人的行家去评论了。而我只了解其中一位(指维吉尔。蒙田自认不精通希腊语,难以评论荷马的真正价值。——译者注),按照我的水平来议论,即使缪斯我也不相信会超过这位罗马人: If someone asked me to choose the hero in my mind, I think there are three drivers over the others. - Bit is Homer. This is not to say that Aristotle or Varo (as an example) may not be as versatile as he is, nor that Virgil is incompatible with him in poetry - I let the acquaintance of both poets Go comment And I know only one of them (referring to Virgil Montaigne, who is not proficient in Greek and who is hard-pressed to comment on the true value of Homer.) And to my level of argument, I do not even believe Muse Will surpass this Romans: