Homer

Ancient Greek epic poet. Calls a king the shepherd of the peoples.

Works

TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — Calls a king the shepherd of the peoples
"Homer calls a king the shepherd of the peoples, because he ought to feed them, as a shepherd feeds sheep, and not fleece them."

II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Jerome mentions Homerocentones (centos from Homer) as examples of misusing texts
"As though we had not read Homerocentones and Virgiliocento"
ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — The poems of Homer are posterior to the Pentateuch by at least five centuries
"the most ancient books that remain to us, after the books of Moses, are the poems of Homer, posterior to the Pentateuch by at least five centuries"
ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Reading Homer or Virgil produces passionate admiration; compared to but surpassed by biblical poetry
"it surrenders to a passionate admiration that it has known only in reading Homer or Virgil"
ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Homer's songs on the wrath of Achilles are set beside but below the Miserere, Lamentations, and Isaiah 53
"Homer's songs on the wrath of Achilles"

Praises of Moses from Scripture and the Fathers — Listed among those who learned from Moses through Egypt
"Orpheus, Homer, Solon, Pythagoras"
Moses as the Most Ancient Theologian, Philosopher, Poet, and Historian — Listed among sages preceded by Moses
"Homer, Hesiod, Thales"

Argumentum — Listed among the sages of Greece whom Moses preceded
"all the sages of Greece and the Gentiles, namely Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates"