During his stay at Phocoea,
Homer is said to have
composed
the Little Iliad, and the Phocoeid.
Iliad - Pope
enteuthen de kai tounoma Homeros epekrataese to
Melaesigenei apo taes symphoraes oi gar Kumaioi tous tuphlous
Homerous legousin. Vit. Hom. _l. c._ p. 311. The etymology has been
condemned by recent scholars. See Welcker, Epische Cyclus, p. 127,
and Mackenzie's note, p. xiv.
8 Thestorides, thnetoisin anoiston poleon per, ouden aphrastoteron
peletai noou anthropoisin. Ibid. p. 315.
During his stay at Phocoea,
Homer is said to have
composed
the Little Iliad, and the Phocoeid.
See Muller's Hist. of Lit., vi. Section 3. Welcker, _l. c._ pp. 132,
272, 358, sqq., and Mure, Gr. Lit. vol. ii. p. 284, sq.
9 This is so pretty a picture of early manners and hospitality, that
it is almost a pity to find that it is obviously a copy from the
Odyssey.
