E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Homer’s Critics.
Dorotheus spent his whole life trying to elucidate one single word of Homer.
1
Zoilos (3 syl.), the grammarian, was called “Homer’s Scourge” (Homromastix), because he assailed the Iliad and Odyssey with merciless severity.
2
As some deny that Shakespeare is the author of the plays which are generally
ascribed to him, so Wolf, a German critic (1759–1824), in his Prolegomena ad Homrum, denies that Homer was the author of the Iliad and Odyssey.
romastix), because he assailed the Iliad and Odyssey with merciless severity.
