In references to the text of Homer the books of the Iliad are denoted by the Greek capital letters, those of the Odyssey by the Greek lower case letters. For the convenience of readers who may be using a text that only gives the Roman or Arabic numerals a concordance is printed below:
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Alan J.B. Wace and Frank H. Stubbings, edd., A Companion to Homer (London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1962), p. xxvii:
