Note 185 — Chapter III · THE CONTEST BETWEEN HOMER AND HESIOD—HOMER’S DEATH
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When Pausanias came to Thespiæ on his Bœotian round, the representatives of the Corporation who owned the land told him dogmatically that the Works and Days alone came from the Master’s hand, and showed him the ne varietur copy on lead, wanting the proœmium which we read at the head of the poem (Paus., 9. 31. 4).