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