[Footnote 3: For what quality of the mind or body? For
speed, or beauty, or valor? - In what language did the
Vandals read Homer? - Did he speak German? - The Latins had
four versions, (Fabric. tom. i. l. ii. c. 8, p. 297:) yet,
in spite of the praises of Seneca, (Consol. c. 26,) they
appear to have been more successful in imitating than in
translating the Greek poets. But the name of Achilles might
be famous and popular even among the illiterate Barbarians.]