The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Thestors Sonne Inquisitiue of Homer, Abovt the Cavses of Things

by Homer

 

TO

THESTORS

SONNE

Inquisitiue of

HOMER,

ABOVT THE CAVSES

OF THINGS.

 

hestorides? Of all the skills unknowne
To errant Mortals; there remains not One,
Of more inscrutable Affaire, to finde
Than is the true State of a humane Minde.

 

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Homer intimated in this his Answer to Thestorides, A will to haue him learne, The knowledge of himselfe, before his enquir'd so curiously the causes of other things. And from hence, had the great Peripatetique (Themistius) his most graue Epiphoneme, Anima quæ seipsam ignorat, quid sciret ipsa de alijs? And therefore (according to Aristotle) aduises all Philosophicall Students, to beginne with that Studie.

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