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. he who with scornful words to them[*](The councillors of Cyme who refused to support Homer at the public expense.) contrived my fate.
  2. Yet I will endure the lot which heaven gave me even at my birth,
  3. bearing my disappointment with a patient heart.
  4. My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets
  5. of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me
  6. to go unto another country, small though I am.
  1. Thestorides, full many things there are that mortals cannot sound;
  2. but there is nothing more unfathomable than the heart of man.