archaise

Even less are poets in uncritical times inclined to "archaise," either by attempting to draw fancy pictures of the manners of the past, or by making researches in graves, or among old votive offerings in temples, for the purpose of "preserving local colour."

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

"archaise," bringing in genuine, but by their time forgotten,

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

They do not archaise as to the details of life, but "the Homeric poets consciously and consistently archaised, in regard to the political conditions of continental Greece," in the Achaean times.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

The most erudite ancient poet, in a critical age of iron, does not archaise in our modern fashion.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Not only is such archaising inconsistent with the art of an uncritical age, but a careful archaiser, with all the resources of Alexandrian criticism at his command, could not archaise successfully.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Homeric culture is evidently the culture of the poet's own days; there is no attempt to archaise here .... "

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878