Iliad
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a whole Iliad and Odyssey
spoken of as
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Symposium (Greek)
and so even now I can repeat the whole Iliad and the Odyssey by heart.
in the texts
Orations
Homer's epic poem, known by heart by the Borysthenites and used as a standard of poetic worth.
But are not these verses, for those who hear not carelessly, worth a whole Iliad and Odyssey?
And in other respects no longer clearly speaking Greek, through dwelling in the midst of the barbarians, nonetheless well-nigh all of them know the Iliad by heart.
Symposium
One of the Homeric poems memorized by Niceratus.
and so even now I can repeat the whole Iliad and the Odyssey by heart.