Note 188 — Chapter III · THE CONTEST BETWEEN HOMER AND HESIOD—HOMER’S DEATH
Reading edition
From Anth. Pal., IX. 448.
Ἐρώτησις Ὁμήρου. Άνδρες ἀπ’ Ἀρκαδίης ἁλιήτορες, ἠ ῥ’ ἔχομέν τι; Ἀνταπόκρισις Ἀρκάδων. Ὄσσ’ ἔλομεν, λιπόμεσθ’, ὄσσ’ οὺχ ούχ ἕλομεν, φερόμεσθα,
which may perhaps be rendered in rhyme,
“Fishers from Arcady, have we aught? Our catch, we left; we bear, what we ne’er caught!”