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.
- 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,
- through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles;
- thence[*](sc. from Smyrna, Homer’s reputed birth-place.) arose the daughters of Zeus, glorious children,
- and would fain have made famous that fair country and the city of its people.
- But in their folly those men scorned the divine voice and renown of song,
- and in trouble shall one of them remember this hereafter—