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[146] This famous comparison has been as much imitated and quoted as any in H. Of imitations the earliest is in 21.464, the most famous perhaps that of Ar. Aves 685. For the first quotation, that of Simonides, see Bergk P. L. ^{3} p. 1146; the passage is preserved in Stobaeus. Clemens Alex. ( Strom. vi. 738) says that Homer plagiarized it from ‘Musaios,’ quoting as the original of that mythical poet “ὣς δ᾽ αὔτως καὶ φύλλα φύει ζείδωρος ἄρουρα: ἄλλα μὲν ἐν μελίηισιν ἀποφθίνει, ἄλλα δὲ φύει”.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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