All of this, of course, flies in the face of μιχτὴν ϱ̔αψῳδίαων. But that phrase is suspicious in its own right. It was bracketed long ago by Tyrwhitt, and the Arabic version translates it strangely if at all. […] In short, there is every reason to athetize μιχτὴν ϱ̔αψῳδίαων as a note of late origin which has gotten into the text.

The unhappy man (who had cheated the sailors), innocent of danger, is seated on a grating with his combs, spy-glasses, necklaces, ribbons, and all the rest of his Brummagem trumpery, spread out before him.

Oh, a girl that has a bankful of money, replied Martha, carelessly.

Is it the phi phenomenon or the persistence of vision? Originally, the illusion of motion that movies excel at was thought to be the effect of the persistence of vision.