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. To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey
  2. even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother’s knees!
  3. By the will of Zeus who holds the aegis
  4. the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses,
  5. more active than raging fire in the test of war,
  6. once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbor to the sea,