Histories

[He mentions it in the Odyssey also:

1. The daughter of Zeus had such ingenious drugs,
2. Good ones, which she had from Thon's wife, Polydamna, an Egyptian,
3. Whose country's fertile plains bear the most drugs,
4. Many mixed for good, many for harm:

and again Menelaus says to Telemachus:

1. I was eager to return here, but the gods still held me in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt,
2. Since I had not sacrificed entire hecatombs to them.

In these verses the poet shows that he knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt; for +Syria [38,35] (nation), Asia Syria borders on Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom +Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Sidon belongs, dwell in +Syria [38,35] (nation), Asia Syria.

These verses and this passage prove most clearly that the Cyprian poems are not the work of Homer but of someone else. For the Cyprian poems relate that Alexandrus reached +Troy [26.25,39.95] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Ilion with Helen in three days from Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Sparta, having a fair wind and a smooth sea; but according to the Iliad, he wandered from his course in bringing her.