“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Avram Davidson (1923–1993) novelist
Vergil in Averno (1987)
“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.”
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635). Compare: "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did 'go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6.
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