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Quotation from The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric)
“He is a blind man, and dwells in rocky Chios: his lays are evermore supreme.”
The Homeric Hymns, Hymn III, To Delian Apollo, ll. 172-173, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
The singer asks the maidens of Delos to name him to strangers as the sweetest of singers; ancient readers took this as Homer's self-portrait.
Citation: "He is a blind man, and dwells in rocky Chios: his lays are evermore supreme." — Anonymous (Homeric), The Homeric Hymns, Hymn III, To Delian Apollo, ll. 172-173, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). (id homeric-hymns-q2)
