"A blind man; he dwells on the rocky Chios; and his songs are the first among men."
— Homer

January 1, 1970

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Homeric "Hymn to Delian Apollo", cited by Thucydides, iii.104, as quoted in Arnold H. L. Heeren's Reflections on the Politics of Ancient Greece, trans. George Bancroft (1824), footnote on p. 119