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. the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses,
  2. more active than raging fire in the test of war,
  3. once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbor to the sea,
  4. through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles;
  5. thence[*](sc. from Smyrna, Homer’s reputed birth-place.) arose the daughters of Zeus, glorious children,
  6. and would fain have made famous that fair country and the city of its people.
  7. But in their folly those men scorned the divine voice and renown of song,
  8. and in trouble shall one of them remember this hereafter—