text:  The truth is that when you are called upon to see and to hear _within the mind_ you rejoice in the capacities of seeing and hearing that are thus unfolded in you infinitely surpassing similar capacities which you possess in your bodily eye and ear; and therefore the stronger the demands that are made the more readily even do you comply with them; and in this way in part we must understand the character that is impressed upon the _Iliad_ and the temper of mind in the hearer answering to the character