Note 190 — Chapter III · THE CONTEST BETWEEN HOMER AND HESIOD—HOMER’S DEATH
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Anth. Pal., VII. 3. Κοσμήτορα I prefer to translate “marshal,” its first meaning, rather than “adorner” adopted by Coleridge, as being far stronger, and more fitting for a poet who had “marshalled” on his stage of the Iliad so many heroes. Herodotus states that the people of Ios (not Homer) wrote the epitaph at a subsequent date.