Homer’s Epigrams

Homer

Homer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.

  1. Have[*](The Epigrams are preserved in the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer. Nos. III, XIII, and XVII are also found in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and No. I is also extant at the end of some MSS. of the Homeric Hymns.) reverence for him who needs a home and stranger’s dole,
  2. all ye who dwell in the high city of Cyme, the lovely maiden,
  3. hard by the foothills of lofty Sardene,
  4. ye who drink the heavenly water of the divine stream,
  5. eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot.