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