Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer: Literally Translated, With Explanatory Notes An epithet derived from cpivooc, the Phrygian name for a mouse. Either because Apollo had put an end to a plague of mice among that people, or because a mouse was thought emblematical of augury. - Gmts, Hist. Of Greece, vol. I. P. 68, observes that this worship of Sminthian Apollo, in various parts of the Tread and its neighbouring territory, dates before the cal-list period of Eolic colonization. On the Homeric description of Apollo, see Miiller, Dorians, vol. I. P. 315. Not crowned, as Heyne says; for this was a later custom - See Anthon and Arnold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.