Heroic Verses Anonymous is not a lost epic but a dossier of hexameters later authors called Homeric that are not in our Iliad or Odyssey. Hippocrates On Joints is cited for oxen that look thin in winter; Plato’s Gorgias for Homer on the just as tame; the Phaedrus for two Homeric lines on Eros whom mortals call flying and immortals Pteros because of winged necessity; Aristotle’s De Anima for Hector lying thinking other thoughts; the Ethics for wrath that puts strength in the thymos.
Plutarch’s Life of Homer supplies a harvest line: when sturdy men cut Demeter at the joints. Other scraps come from Chrysippus in Galen, from Aeschines on Phēmē going through the army, and from scholia that deny a bloody wound can close on a corpse.
Allen printed them among the Homerica. The slot is those attributed extra verses, not a second Homer.
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