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. Another sort of pine shall bear a better fruit[*](The better fruit is apparently the iron smelted out in fires of pine-wood.)
  2. than you upon the heights of furrowed, windy Ida.
  3. For there shall mortal men get the iron that Ares loves
  4. so soon as the Cebrenians shall hold the land.