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.

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. See the fourteenth book. In fact, whoever was the author of

this fictitious biography, he showed some tact in identifying Homer

with certain events described in his poems, and in eliciting from

them the germs of something like a personal narrative.

0 Dia logon estionto. A common metaphor. So Plato calls the parties

conversing daitumones, or estiatores. Tim. i. p. 522 A. Cf. Themist.

Orat. vi. p. 168, and xvi. p. 374, ed. Petav So diaegaemasi sophois

omou kai terpnois aedio taen Thoinaen tois hestiomenois epoiei,

Choricius in Fabric. Bibl. Gr. T. viii. P. 851. logois gar estia,

Athenaeus vii p 275, A

1 It was at Bolissus, and in the house of this Chian citizen, that

Homer is said to have written the Batrachomyomachia, or Battle of

the Frogs and Mice, the Epicichlidia, and some other minor works.

2 Chandler, Travels, vol. i. p. 61, referred to in the Voyage

Pittoresque dans la Grece, vol. i. P. 92, where a view of the spot

is given of which the author candidly says,-- "Je ne puis repondre

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