| Sumario: | The article presents information on the book "Pope and the Heroic Tradition: A Critical Study of His 'Iliad'" by Douglas Knight. Knight remarks that the pattern of standard epithets reflects a world of codified values as grown men see them. There is writer and critic Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary," where the verb "to scare" is defined as "to fright; to frighten; to affright; to terrify; to strike with sudden fear", without any mark of lexicographical disapproval, that is the word is not "burlesque", or "familiar", or "peculiar", nor is the definition changed in the revised Dictionary of 1773.
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